[JMintzer]

Originally Posted by OrangeBlossomBaby

Have gotten? Where have you been for the past few decades? According to Minimum salary: - BR Bullpen

The average salary for a Major League Baseball player was $44,676 in 1975.

Only five years later in 1980, the average was $143,756 - more than three TIMES what it was 5 years prior.

Five years after that in 1985? $371,571 - almost twice what it was five years prior.

Fast forward to 2022: the AVERAGE salary for MLB players is $4,414,184. That's almost 100 times what it was back in 1975.

Check on any politician's annual paid salary, any teacher, police officer or firefighter, any administrative assistant in an office, any minimum wage earner, any restaurant manager - and you won't find those kinds of salary jumps.

None of those other people you mentioned have TV contracts...