Essay About Baseball Players

I decided on my topic why baseball players make more than other athletes because I have played baseball my whole life and have had an interest in the MLB (major league baseball) games ever since I was born. Before I researched this topic I knew that baseball players had more games than other athletes and made a lot of money, but I didn’t know exactly how much. I wanted to find out why they made so much money, because it doesn’t seem fair for how much they make compared to other salaries. I went to USA today, quora, SB nation, and CBS news web to find what I needed to help find information.

Why do MLB (major league baseball) players make more money than other athletes? There are several reasons for this, first off they play more games than other

In the NBA the salary is sixty three point sixty five million, the NFL is one hundred and thirty three million, and NHL is seventy one point four million. “In the NBA there are severe restrictions on adding new players when your team's collective salary is at $58m, and shortly thereafter results in a dollar for dollar tax. In football the number is $120m but the restrictions are far more severe, making it basically impossible to add players after that point.”(Jonathan Brill) As you can tell the MLB has a higher cap salary cap than other

The highest paid salary in the MLB is twenty five million, which is five hundred times what a teacher or cop makes. The average teacher makes about fifty five thousand a year. “The minimum wage in major league baseball is almost four hundred thousand more than half the players make one million or more. New York Yankees' third baseman Alex Rodriguez takes in twenty five million — some five hundred times what a teacher or a cop or a paramedic makes.” (Caitlin Johnson). As you can see, MLB players are paid a large amount of money regardless of their skill level, and the higher quality of the player the more he is