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http://www.forbes.com/sites/kurtbadenhausen/2015/01/23/average-mlb-salary-nearly-double-nfls-but-trails-nba-players/ I will answer the question about how much money other athletes make compared to baseball players.
Thesis: After reading this article, I learned that the MLB is absolutely flushed with cash right now thanks to skyrocketing TV rights fees, both local and national. The best example for this is one of the newest contracts signed by the stud pitcher Max Scherzer for 210 million for 7-years. The average MLB salary was 3.82 million during the 2014 season, up 12.8% according to MLB Players Association. When other sports like the NBA or the NFL are compared to the MLB, they are lacking one major thing, both the NBA and NFL have salary caps to deal with. This limits teams to have a certain amount of money so they can’t pay their top players as much as they would like to like in the MLB. The other thing we must put in perspective though is that in the NFL, they have a significant amount of more players than a typical MLB roster, making it harder to focus a lot of a team's money on just one player.
Analysis: After reading this article, I now have a much better understanding on how the salaries work for some of the major sports. People need to realize that each league is set up differently and there are a lot that come into play when it comes to money. Different sports get more publicity nationally rather than locally and so on, there are different amount of players that are required to be paid in each sport as well. The biggest key here is for a major sport to have a strong supporting cast surrounding it.
Future Research: In my next post, I will talk about why certain position players get paid more than other position players. Every position has a purpose and is very important to a baseball team as a whole, but is one position more important than another?
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