MLB Network Analyst: "LeBron James Essentially Has Hunter Pence's Contract."

[Versa]

Saying athleticism has ZERO impact in baseball is an exaggeration, but it requiring FAR less than basketball, football, hockey, soccer, or tennis is 100% fact.

Great base stealers, center fielders, short stops and to a lesser extent pitchers are usually very good athletes.

 

[R.E.N. Spells Ren]

Kobe also makes more money in hitting two shots from the field than the average American worker makes in a whole year.

Kobe Bryant isn't the average American worker. Please don't go down this road.

 

[FTBS]

Kobe making almost 30 mill this year

And the only reason he was able to do so is because his old contract and the raises that went along with it were grandfathered in. Players drafted after 99 aren't seeing $30 mil a year unless the CBA changes.

 

[Buckeye Fever]

All they do is sit in the digout and eat sunflower seeds.

But football contracts are the worst. That's why u see young players workin jobs in the off season. Yall think it's to learn the business or to holla at hoes Nah, dumb ass, them nikkaz pockets ain't right

 

[Saysumthinfunnymike]

LeBron makes his money in endorsements, etc. The only way to fix it is to give LeBron $30+M a year, a guy like Bosh maybe $5-10M a year, role players maybe a few mill and scrubs less than a million. Instead you have role players making $10M+ .... Scrubs making 5 million, etc..

 

[MikelArteta]

Basketball is the only sport as well you can make six figures playing in China, Australia, turkey, Slovakia etc

I know we all love to talk about that baseball money, especially when comparing it to playing in the NFL. The low long term health impact, coupled with the guaranteed contracts and the ability to find a long life as a specialist are some huge advantages to pursuing a baseball career over football.

But the NBA versus the MLB is where our paths diverge on the topic.

The only pluses that playing baseball have over playing basketball professionally are the deep farm systems that allow you a longer opportunity to develop and make money, and the available jobs (450 in the NBA compared to 750 in the MLB). Baseball is actually the only major league sport with a > 2% chance of making it to the big leagues.

Otherwise, NBA players have similar career lengths to baseball (4.8 years compared to 5.6 for baseball), with the highest average annual salary in all of sports, and has just as low long term health impacts as baseball, potentially even lower. They also enjoy guaranteed contracts.

The average salary of an NBA player is up to $5.15 MILLION per season. The MLB is second at $3.2 Million. The average career earnings of a NBA player are $24.7 Million. The MLB is second at $17.9 Million.

In short it will be harder to find a job in basketball than in baseball, but if you are good enough to play either, basketball is the smartest sport to play professionally in the USA.

 

[HookersandIceCream]

Steve tell us why Pence deserves to be paid as much as Lebron


Thanks Mike

Pence doesn't bring that athleticism and talent, a player like Lebron James has.
But what he lacks in that department, he makes up in being a selfless grinder.
Someone who knows how to work the count isnt afraid to run into a wall if he has too.
If you had to ask me what Pence brings to a team in terms of intangibles is priceless.
In fact I will go as far to say as hes underpaid!

 

[andre patton]

Have the Lakers paid Kobe $292M over the last 10 years?

Has any team in any sport ever paid any player $292M over the last 10 years?

 

[R.E.N. Spells Ren]

Has any team in any sport ever paid any player $292M over the last 10 years?

That's the deal Miggy just signed, but if you wanna argue inflation, then fine, no NBA player got an Arod deal over that time period.

 

[MustafaSTL]

Average MLB salary: $3.39 million

http://espn.go.com/mlb/story/_/id/10158314/mlb-average-salary-54-percent-339-million

Average NBA salary: $5.15 million

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/visualnewscom/visualizing-the-yearly-sa_b_4184716.html

But let one contract make you think that baseball players make more than basketball players.

 

[andre patton]

That's the deal Miggy just signed, but if you wanna argue inflation, then fine, no NBA player got an Arod deal over that time period.

I'm saying you're asking for proof of stuff that happened over the last 10 years in the NBA and compare it to stuff thats supposed to happen in MLB over the next 10. Its an unfair comparison.

Everyone talks about baseball and all this money...I just dont see it. The numbers dont add up. The length of the contracts are nice...but thats it.

 

[R.E.N. Spells Ren]

I'm saying you're asking for proof of stuff that happened over the last 10 years in the NBA and compare it to stuff thats supposed to happen in MLB over the next 10. Its an unfair comparison.

Everyone talks about baseball and all this money...I just dont see it. The numbers dont add up. The length of the contracts are nice...but thats it.

No, you're jumping into the middle of a conversation, taking shyt out of context.

Who in the NBA got paid as much as Arod over length of his first 10 year $252M deal? Or, more importantly, who could've gotten paid that much given restraints of the NBA's salary cap.

 

[No_bammer_weed]

and yet LeBron still does more physically in 82 games playing 3-5 times a week more than this cac ever will in his entire career...

Ah now I see what set @Ed MOTHEREFFING G @Ed MOTHERfukkING G off....I tagged you both because I dont know who is who....weird.

 

[Ed MOTHEREFFING G]

Ah now I see what set @Ed MOTHEREFFING G @Ed MOTHERfukkING G off....I tagged you both because I dont know who is who....weird.

They're both me. Effing is me on a work PC with no pictures/avatars/vulgarity/signatures. Its easier to just have a different user ID than to switch it out.

 

[Shogun]

and the nba lookin to put ads on jerseys