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Originally Posted by rudel.dietrich
And who says players make too much? If you have ever watched a baseball game, bought a hat, played OOTP or anything else baseball related then you support player salaries.
In a free market society everyone makes more or less what they are worth. Athletes make they kind of money they do because it is economically possible that they can do so.
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It's worth noting too the way player salaries are distributed. Undoubtedly some folks here the fact that as of opening day 2012 the average MLB player salary was $3,439,370 and think that's what many of the players will make this season. But in fact it's only a small number of players at the who make huge salaries while the rest make considerably less.
For example, 30% of the 852 players on the 2012 opening day rosters and disabled lists—247 players—were making less than $495,000. To put it another way, the 4 highest paid players are making more combined salary than the 247 lowest paid players ($125,198,582 for the top 4 compared to $119,481,810 for the bottom 247).