Baseball made 7.5 billion in revnue last year

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1. It's not like the NBA or NFL, where you go to school for 1 yr(NBA) or 3-4 yrs and get drafted and play in the pros. In MLB, once you're drafted, you don't know when you'll make the pros(hell if you get drafted, a good number of prospects don't see the majors), it can be in 2-3 years after you get drafted or it can be 5-7 years after you get drafted.

2. Most universities don't really offer scholarships for baseball, there's not too many full rides to be the starting shortstop of the Clemson Tigers.

3. Baseball players typically don't see big money til 8+ yrs AFTER they've been drafted. Say if your son is a Lebron James type baseball prospect drafted out of HS, he'll get like 2-3 mil for his first contract, and he'll spend at least 1 year in the minors then he'll come up. It takes 2+ yrs of MLB service time(a full year of service time is 172 games, a MLB regular season is 162 games) to make good money in arbitration. Assuming he makes the majors a year or so after he's drafted and STAYS there, he'll make his fair market value in 7 years(assuming he doesn't take any extensions that buy out his FA years).

4. Maybe not that a big of a deal, but the Jordan and some of the prolific black NFL players(Deion; TO, Moss, Vick, Champ Bailey, Cunningham, Barry Sanders) of the last 20 years might hurt the lack of American born black players. Seeing Jordan w/ all those commercials and sneakers, might have sent a signal to young athletes like "damn, why play baseball, when I can play ball and be the next Jordan". You can say the same w/ Vick/Moss/TO/Cunningham/Barry Sanders.
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you made a post about money... u do realize baseball has NO salary cap and top "lebron james" type players are gettin 300+ mil contracts and playing for about 15+ years and then can DH untill they retire while... :comeon:
 
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you made a post about money... u do realize baseball has NO salary cap and top "lebron james" type players are gettin 300+ mil contracts and playing for about 15+ years and then can DH untill they retire while... :comeon:
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Did you not read what I posted? :why:
Lebron James type players(Trout; Harper, Strausburg, Heyward) will not get paid well starting out, and that's a huge difference from NBA/NFL. If you're a top 5 draft pick in the NBA, you're at least getting 2 mil per year for 3-4 yrs. Meanwhile in MLB, you're lucky to get 3 mil total for your first contract(outside of Strausburg, noone has gotten over 8 mil total for their first contract).

Outside of A-Rod, no one has gotten a 300 mil deal, Prince and Pujols came close, and we won't see that type of money given out to maybe Kershaw(probably Harper and Trout). To get top money, you have to wait at least 7 years. The 7 years doesn't even take account of players spending years in the minors, or if someone decides to spend 3-4 years in College. Although the pay day may be highest in baseball, it's certainly the longest to wait for. People would always opt to take quick money(NBA/NFL) as opposed to slow money(MLB), especially if you're talking about young athletes.
 
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