@Liam South As a fan I love football but as a player (not a very good one) I prefer baseball. I just looked and MLB salaries range $550,000 to $35mil per year. Not bad!
Liam South thats 35 mil per year and Haynesworth was supposed to get 20 mil a year so while the difference is big that’s not “nothing” u uncultured pickle
NBA has a cap of 101 Mil but it is only a soft cap meaning teams can go over the cap but will just have to pay a luxury tax. NFL has a hard cap of 177 mil meaning that teams cannot go over that cap no matter what and MLB has no cap only a luxury tax of 200 mil. This is why MLB players get paid the most.
@@bluurrg1112 NBA and MLB's luxury tax are about the same. In the NBA though you can spend $20 mil over the cap without really any penalties. NBA also has their own contract problem with the Salary Cap ludicrously high when you only have to pay max 15 players.
ZennerGOAT ok but MLB rosters consist of 25 men and those rosters expand in September to 40 men. Baseball teams have to pay way more players than NBA teams and it’s not even close
They glossed over the arbitration system in Major League Baseball. A player can reach arbitration after three years and start receiving single season guaranteed contracts almost equal to that of veterans if their numbers are good enough. Tim Lincecum jumped pretty quickly from the league minimum to $22 million per season before being eligible for free agency. Josh Donaldson went from the league minimum, lost his arbitration case and made about $4 million in his MVP season before jumping up to $17 then $23 million a season before reaching free agency. Total revenues for all north American major league sports have ballooned over the decades. Sure baseball is third, but that's third out of five major league sports leagues which have each grown in TV viewership, number of teams and the total amount of games played in a season. Baseball also pays pretty big signing bonuses to prospects before they make it to the majors. That guy grinding it out in the minors might already have been paid a $1.5 million dollar signing bonus before ever making it to a big league spring training camp. The NFL relies on the U.S. college athletics system to churn out players. Basketball relies on college players and lesser leagues in Europe. Baseball use to get cheap players from Latin America, but now pays many of these players a premium. You can't steal talent from Japan anymore either. You have to pay a huge fee to buy a player's rights then negotiate a contract with the player.
In a nutshell: Long term TV deals + the strongest union in America are causing these huge salaries despite the sport slowing in popularity relative to NFL and NBA. One thing not considered in the video is why these TV deals are bringing the big bucks. Main reason is that sports broadcasting is the only thing that cannot be commoditized by streaming services such as Netflix, Amazon and Hulu and thus is the only source of revenue that big TV networks can rely on going forward. We shall see in the next couple of years if this trend continues.
Isn't Hulu into live TV? And other companies like Bleacher Report and ESPN do live stream sports games through their various apps. It's only a matter of time before these tv networks die and are completely replaced by streaming platforms.
@@MRLONG758 point being u need constant new games played to keep up. Whereas w netflix, create a tv show once and rerun forever. Person here saying that it pays to put out new content every week, aka sports.
Pace of play initiatives are well intentioned and can help. However, unless the league lets players show off some personality and character in the field, it will still be boring. Too many unwritten rules and restrictions in the MLB, this stifles the creativity and personalities of its players. Yasiel Puig almost always gets in trouble with his bat flips, but they should look at how much buzz it generated for the game.
I think baseball has much improved in both aspects over the years. Not only has the pace of play increased dramatically from the new rules that most fans like but the rise of Ohtani has filled in that void of baseball having their “MJ” or “Ronaldo” or “Messi” etc.
@@cookiemon87 Unions got you the weekend, working hours, regulated safe jobs etc. Don't buy into the propaganda and brainwashing that corporate bought politicians spread. Unions protected the workers while business tried to leach off them and make as much profit as they desired off the backs of the worker.
Generally if you played baseball growing up, you tend to like the sport. Baseball and football are neck in neck as my favorite sports. I can sit and watch a baseball game from beginning to the end. It’s certainly a harder sport to make it to the big leagues. You got rookie ball, A, Double AA and Triple AAA, than finally the big leagues, after all that they should make the most money. Basketball players do pretty good, The NHL contracts lately have looked better, I hate NFL contracts, the player has very little leverage. Given the short career, I’d likely advise a player to hoard most of their money and live like a regular person, short of being a quarterback or kicker, your career will likely be 10 years or less.
2:00 41 million is still an insane amount of money especially for a guy didn’t play well after, so unless he blew all his money already he doesn’t have to work another day in his life
Well compared to the impact the body takes it not the same a lot of these guys won’t be speaking properly nor walking etc etc for that small amount of money they are getting playing football compared to MLB players on average.
I myself would personally argue that the NBA has the best contract. If you're talking to which league makes the most money out of contracts, it's the MLB, however, I would argue that you see these insane MLB contract like Mike Trout, 430 mil for TWELVE YEARS, where in the NBA, the best players make James Harden 228 mill for 4 years(half of what the MLB makes at a quarters length) or Steph Curry 201 million for 5 years, is a quarter or half of an MLB contract length with nearly half or more than a half of MLB best players contract, that's with a SOFT CAP in the NBA. If you want the MLB, NBA, and NFL to play on an EVEN FIELD with no contracts, the NFL will win this game, HOWEVER, the one thing about the NFL is that there's a max of 1696 players in the league as opposed to the NBA who can have a max of 450 players only(53 players per NFL roster while 15 per NBA roster) which the money does not get evenly distributed, that works against the NFL having the biggest contract but we know players do not get paid evenly and a quarterback makes the most which it should be. so to break it down TLDR - MLB, however, they get these 300/400 mill contract for a length of 10-12 years while the NBA at most can go up to 6 years with best players earning 200-300, Lebron could have broken this record. Half or a quarter of the MLB length in contract with half the earning, NBA wins. That's with a cap in the NBA and NFL, imagine if the NBA and NFL had no cap, NFL wins, however, it's unfair the NFL has to distribute to 1696 players unevenly as it should be while in the NBA, the distribution is 450 unevenly distributed. Lebron could gotten that 350 mil for 4-6 years had it not been the NBA easing into the TV money, and not with the Lakers either, he'd have to stay with the Cavs. 350 for 4-6 years? almost Mike Trout money with a quarter of mike trout contract length.
I'd like to see the trend on attendance before, during, and after a World Series. My interest really being in seeing how long does the wave last before that team's attendance matches the rest of the league.
i think that teams tanking are damaging baseball, thats why nobody wants to spend to go and see a 95 losses team, they should put a minimum payroll for everybody, so competition gets a bit more even
@@redsox258 I think he meant teamwide. So if you se the minimum to $30m and a team spends $18m knowing it's going to tank it has to distribute the remaining $12m anyway. The NBA has a similar mechanism and I think Philly used it for a couple of years.
One quick thing you got wrong. You said that baseball rosters have half the amount of players as NFL teams, but this is not true. You are correct if you talk about the 25 man roster or the 40 man active roster but the organization actually has upwards of 100-150 players not to mention dozens of coaches. This is because baseball organizations have 4 teams each. That being said 99% of these players make less than 500k and not just that players not on the 40 man roster can make as little as 25k a year so they make dirt.
Yeah the MLB team is nearly or just under half of the NFL depending on the time of the year. Minor league players don't count on payroll, nor do they get paid even close to the same as an Major League player.
But you can make more on NFL as a rookie. A young MLB prospect just went to NFL because he can make much more money in his rookie years - this is important. Imagine a 23 years old NFL player getting hurt to the point he can't play the game anymore, now picture a MLB player which was making around 550k, add to this the fact that he won't be able to make that kind of money in his life anymore. Where would you play as a rookie, NFL or MLB?
Fagner F Souza NFL players average career span is like 3 years. Baseball players are less likely to have severe injuries. Arbitration and once hitting FA market bring in the big bucks. Long term baseball is best. Expecting you have big bucks as a rookie in NFL just to have your knee blown out after a few weeks and all that money is gone because it’s not guaranteed. Yeah get your head smashed in for non guaranteed money
@@97NikeSb Average MLB careers are actually not much longer they are a little longer because they have smaller rosters which means less fringe players make the big league but unless you preform at a high level which most average players do not, your career is over in three years or less are you are playing for a little over the minimum. Also it is not like great pitchers do not blow arms out every year.
@Moist Gnome no, not really. Even if a player played in every major T20 league, they'd still come out to less than 100 games. They would have to play either 12 Test matches, or 30 ODIs and T20Is each to reach about 160, but it's unlikely that a player playing a full slate of international matches would also be available for full seasons of the IPL, Big Bash, etc. Domestic cricketers also do not reach such numbers. An English county cricketer who played all 16 of his team's matches in the County Championship gets at most 64 days of cricket, plus maybe another 25-30 days of limited overs cricket (assuming they are selected for all formats).
Nikolai Yankov yes but contract are guaranteed they play 162 games but you don’t get as tired as the others...you don’t work like the others there are players that have 5 millions contract and don’t play every game
The #1 reason for large Mlb contracts is the powerful bargaining power that is the result of Mlb players having the longest average careers amongst other sports...this results in a stronger collective will to hold out for a better CBA
The MLB attendance was 69M in 2018. The NBA has 22M and they’re half as many games in the NBA. Also, speeding up game time won’t tune in youths. The way to tune in youths is offense, really good pitching and more celebrations by players
Liam South nhl top stars make north of $8M a season, guys like Toews and Kane rake in $13M a season, baseball rookies make 545K, NHL player minimum is 845k, dude get your facts straight
Just clarifying: Football does not equal the NFL and basketball does not equal the NBA. The average person who says they like football best may well be thinking of college (or even high school) ball. Likewise, millions of basketball fans watch college ball almost exclusively. The single greatest competition in American basketball, at least in terms of widespread excitement, is March Madness, not the NBA playoffs.
March Madness is nowhere near as exciting as the NBA playoffs. College players are nowhere near as good as NBA players, therefore the NBA has much higher quality basketball.
I’m just thinking about , ok if the league average of fans is 27,000 per game. Than you have about 80 home games per team, that should be huge profit anyway even if they don’t fill the seats based on the amount of games. Basketball has smaller arenas but a lot of season games as well but not nearly as much as Mlb. So that’s mostly where the money comes from.
Yeah also helps that a hotdog is $9, a tall can beer is $16, a bottled water is $6 , parking lot is $25-$80, a bag of popcorn $7.50, a pretzel with chess $9 , a soda $6.50 , oh makes sense now. Stadium prices
They are affordable if you go to a day game on tuesday or wednesday. Take off work that day and get really cheap seats trust me I do it every year and at yankee stadium.
As a tigers fan i dont watch because 1. The teams ass 2. Most of the players will be in the minors or new players from the minors. Ill watch the occasional game but watching a losing team in baseball is painful.
Biggest thing I got from this is that the NFL is still the most popular sport in America yet as risky as it is for the players, they are paid the least.
I'm from Germany. We enjoy soccer the most. Our national league has 34 games, no play-offs at all. I was shocked when I heard that the regular season of the MLB has +160 games! That's so cool. You can basically watch a game every day/night during the season. I'm also a huge fan of statistics. If I had grown up in the US, I'd surely were a baseball fan. But getting into it now is quite impossible. There is no media coverage and nobody is talking about it. Fantasy baseball seems also awesome to me. I have a weak spot in my heart for America anyway. I was born and raised in Heidelberg were there was the headquarter of the US Army in Europe and +10% of our population was American. Sadly I've never been to the States, maybe someday. I won't die before making a journey to the US.
To be fair after 3 years MLB players they have 3 years if arbitration so depending on their skill level they could make league minimum until the 6th year of their rookie deal then they can enter free agency.
Yes football might have way more downtime then baseball but the chances of something happening in football is greater. Baseball, sometime you'll go with 3 hours games and like 3 exciting moments will happen. Football you have high chances of a big pass, big run, pick 6, trick plays, sack, crazy catches. Baseball moments are far from each other..
I know this is about baseball, however unlike the MLB, the National Hockey League rookie minimums are 925$ k per year for three years. The minimum salary is $650,000. The NHL, is the lowest paying of all pro sports (with exception of North American MLS), but the bargaining agreement, INSURES all player contracts are guaranteed. If a player is injured, he is paid. If he is sick, paid. If he goes to rehab, paid. etc. etc. This is a way for it to even itself out, in some ways, to MLB, NBA, NFL, albeit the contract money in those sports is sick.
Actually D -1 Football , Lacrosse and Track and Field athletes are the most likely to play multiple sports in high school but Baseball players are more more likely to be multiple sports athletes then Basketball , Hockey and Soccer players.
I have no problem with athletes making millions. That's being said, salaries in baseball have gotten way out of hand. A salary cap would be good for the owners, the players, and the fans in the long run.
@@peterlangdon1444 This is literally the dumbest comment I've read on this matter. You really need to educate yourself on how things work in regards to a salary cap. Why is it that every dumb person in this world sees everyone as a victim?
A typical baseball game last approx 3 hours.....4, 15 minute quarters in football, takes 3 hours. Which sport is harder to watch?...FOOTBALL. Between commercials, downtime, flags, replay, commercials, replay replay, commercials, replay....3 hours of "devoted" football time accounts for about 11 minutes of actual play.
Yea but that action is fast and furious also Football fans watch for the story line just as much as they do for the action same can be said for Baseball fans people love to watch a story unfold.
Easy answer is they sell more seats and play over a hundred more professional games than any other sport. NBA players definitely do not deserve their salaries.
Salvatore Sultana The Nba ratings have been down the whole season. Probably gonna get worse especially that their biggest star isn't even in the playoffs.
When the NFL players went on strike in 1987, the owners used replacement players. A lot of regular players crossed the picket line. The NFL has a hard salary cap and no guaranteed contracts. When baseball players went on strike in 1994, the owners flirted with using replacement players. Nor a single regular player crossed the picket line. MLB has guaranteed contracts and just a luxury tax to control salaries.
So that explains it...MLB needs to do a better job at marketing it’s star players especially in the social media age...what does MLB need to do to get new fans???
Like the narrator said. MLB relied more on stats to sell the game, not the face of the player. Unlike NBA, which is star-driven sport, and the star has more global selling. Sure, there was an exception (Derek Jeter for example).
Yeah, like F1. It's new owner is making a good job on UA-cam, Twitter etc., they even listen to the fans posting many of the things they ask like old races, very detailed crash videos where you'll able to make your call on who's to blame and many things more! Rugby is on that path too!
I wish my parents would've got me to play when I was kid instead of me starting to play in high school. Then again, my high school belongs to the lowest division in the state, so it wouldn't have mattered how good one does.
The Nimble Ninja Exactly! High school teams are really picky on their starters too . Baseball is a sport where you gotta be well known and liked or you won’t get a shot
Baseball losing popularity is not the sport, it’s everything around the sport. It more has to do with the media. Go on ESPN, they might show 5 minutes of highlights before they go talk about stuff like Antonio Brown quitting from the NFL. Also, the ball is rarely in play. A lot of people say baseball is a dying sport, but the MiLB hit an all time high in attendance by more than 1 million fans so the sport isn’t dying. Also, baseball still has 26M youth baseball players which is the same amount as youth basketball players
Baseball will probably never be Number 1 aging but you a right it is not a dying sport there are millions of people in the US who Baseball is there favorite and a lot of fans who like the NFL,NBA or NHL as number 1 also like Baseball
That's because he is trying to build a brand for himself, which is actually looked down upon in baseball. The viewership of 18-49 year olds for baseball in the US is approaching single digits. Football is only growing more popular with the youth. Say what you will, but Kyler knows exactly where the money is and will be in the next 10 years.
Attendance would rise if they made it easier for people to get concessions. MLB if you're listening, make an app that you can scam your ticket so it knows your seat so you can order from your phone and then they bring it back to you having charged your credit card.
Now I am surprised this video doesn't mention the NHL at all. As I just looked it up the NHL salary cap for 2019 is only $83 million. And the luxury tax threshold for this season in MLB is $209 million. Now you know why MLB players get paid way more than any other pro sports athletes.
Id like to see the hourly rate for hours actually worked across each sport. Baseball players get the lowest per game pay out of all three and likely practice more.
SuperGroob true dat and even if u get injured like for example if you’re signed to a max contract say 123 million they still have to pay u which sucks for the owners
@Starlin Peña NOPE... ! Not kidding. It's utterly ridiculous. 30 million a year even if you're no longer playing. How does anybody deserve that?? If your boss lets you go or if you can't work, do YOU get paid?? I know I don't.
I actually really hate the treatment of the NFL players. They shouldn't exactly have fully guaranteed contracts per say, but ot should definitely be higher. 75-80%? The MLB isn't great I'm realizing through a franchise mode on MLB the Show 19 (I'm late, but I never would have bought it unless I got dead bored) and have a star player at 27 years old that I'm going to pay about 4.5M over 4 years which will last through his prime. Just saying, it's not great just because one guy gets a fully guaranteed 330M contract. What the MLB needs to do for me is pretty much cut down the grind. I don't exactly care about 99% of games because only the end of the season matters. I don't watch any sports live because no TV, but summer baseball on TV is only on if there are no recordings I can get caught up, no household chores, etc. You've got to do a lot to draw my interest in an MLB game during the best time of the year to get out and be alive.
I have two great ideas to make baseball entertaining. (I don't watch baseball) 1. Make bases a big bigger so we can see more attempts at stolen bases. 2. Make the run? lane bigger when they are going to a base or stealing it gives them a chance to juke the baseman. It would be entertaining to see someone get juked
This is true for the top 20% but much different story for the bottom 80%, 40% make the league minimum and the medium salary is fourth of the four major sports, below average players will not make it past the rookie deal, average players only stay in the league if they play for a little above minimum because most teams can not afford to contend(they do not think these guys will make a difference in wines or sales) above average players will make more contending teams like to fill out there roster with these guys but unless you are one of the top 150 players on earth you will not get the big money. Truth is a player who make's the MLB is more likely to have a career less then three years then to get the big money
Liam South 😂😂😂 that’s an entire franchise🤷♂️🤷♂️🤷♂️ I’m talking one guy u should think before u post or the sunflower seeds are blocking ur judgement.... the highest athlete contracts in history 1 Floyd Mayweather 2 Floyd Mayweather 3 Floyd Mayweather
@@brusk3978 Floyd can't read and had to get beat up to get that money. Not lose just get beat up. 1 bil aint cool if you can't remember who your kids are in 15 years.
The problem is how prevalent social media is it’s a matter of time someone does something or dies and blames it on steroids Even worse kids and teens watching could start doing it . And the parents will blame it on the league and sue
I'm surprised basketball is that low. The way they've expanded, you would think they're almost double that of the MLB and competing closely with the NFL. And how is the NFL still that high despite the Blackphopbia, concussions, etc.?
The MLB has no ha4d salary cap and that's the way players want it... the lack of competitiveness in the league is a byproduct of that... why do you think baseball is not America's game anymore?
Long term contracts have not worked out. Baseball needs to rethink. More money should be rookies and minor league. There should be a 20% tax on big contracts and redirect that money to the rookies and minor leaguers.
Why I SMH on these Collage FB and BB players going this Pro Sport. MLB Players with speed and talent are dream picks for any MLB Team.. And for Pitchers, if you have a Arm and knows how to throw a pitch with speed and control you have time to grow in the minor leagues where you build your talent and get noticed for the MLB Draft and three years in the Big Leagues you get that Guaranteed Pro MLB Contact and Paid. Not Suspect with the NFL who hardly pays that contract. MLB needs players who could Steal Bases and Hit. They need Speed in the outfield to catch fly balls hit..
Exactly, look at kyler murray. He was already given a huge signing bonus. And now he's going to risk his body and overall health to play football. Idk who got into his head, but he made the wrong decision.
Bryce Harper just signed a 330 million dollar contract with the Phillies so I guess its profitable enough
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KillRoy WasHere but he isn’t worth it talent wise
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I think he got 150-180 mil
Jeremiah Tisdell he got 300 million over ten years
WTF, Haynesworth "only" received $41 million? I wish I could be a bust!
I know, that was my reaction... "Only" personally I'd take $5m of that and be happy!
@@jamesdavies542 You know, I have offered to be a NFL bust at fraction the cost.
Yeah. He ONLY revieved 40 GURANTEED of the 100. What dont you get. It's alot of $ yeah, but they have to work for full contract $
@Liam South As a fan I love football but as a player (not a very good one) I prefer baseball. I just looked and MLB salaries range $550,000 to $35mil per year. Not bad!
Liam South thats 35 mil per year and Haynesworth was supposed to get 20 mil a year so while the difference is big that’s not “nothing” u uncultured pickle
NBA has a cap of 101 Mil but it is only a soft cap meaning teams can go over the cap but will just have to pay a luxury tax. NFL has a hard cap of 177 mil meaning that teams cannot go over that cap no matter what and MLB has no cap only a luxury tax of 200 mil. This is why MLB players get paid the most.
ZennerGOAT how does the soft cap of NBA differ from MLBs luxury tax?
@@bluurrg1112 NBA and MLB's luxury tax are about the same. In the NBA though you can spend $20 mil over the cap without really any penalties. NBA also has their own contract problem with the Salary Cap ludicrously high when you only have to pay max 15 players.
ZennerGOAT ok but MLB rosters consist of 25 men and those rosters expand in September to 40 men. Baseball teams have to pay way more players than NBA teams and it’s not even close
They glossed over the arbitration system in Major League Baseball. A player can reach arbitration after three years and start receiving single season guaranteed contracts almost equal to that of veterans if their numbers are good enough. Tim Lincecum jumped pretty quickly from the league minimum to $22 million per season before being eligible for free agency. Josh Donaldson went from the league minimum, lost his arbitration case and made about $4 million in his MVP season before jumping up to $17 then $23 million a season before reaching free agency. Total revenues for all north American major league sports have ballooned over the decades. Sure baseball is third, but that's third out of five major league sports leagues which have each grown in TV viewership, number of teams and the total amount of games played in a season. Baseball also pays pretty big signing bonuses to prospects before they make it to the majors. That guy grinding it out in the minors might already have been paid a $1.5 million dollar signing bonus before ever making it to a big league spring training camp. The NFL relies on the U.S. college athletics system to churn out players. Basketball relies on college players and lesser leagues in Europe. Baseball use to get cheap players from Latin America, but now pays many of these players a premium. You can't steal talent from Japan anymore either. You have to pay a huge fee to buy a player's rights then negotiate a contract with the player.
ZennerGOAT So if I make a backyard wiffleball league and make the cap $300mil that means players will get paid the most?
Economics + Sports. Nice.
In a nutshell: Long term TV deals + the strongest union in America are causing these huge salaries despite the sport slowing in popularity relative to NFL and NBA.
One thing not considered in the video is why these TV deals are bringing the big bucks. Main reason is that sports broadcasting is the only thing that cannot be commoditized by streaming services such as Netflix, Amazon and Hulu and thus is the only source of revenue that big TV networks can rely on going forward. We shall see in the next couple of years if this trend continues.
Isn't Hulu into live TV? And other companies like Bleacher Report and ESPN do live stream sports games through their various apps. It's only a matter of time before these tv networks die and are completely replaced by streaming platforms.
There's DAZN. Basically the Netflix of sports broadcasting.
@@MRLONG758 point being u need constant new games played to keep up. Whereas w netflix, create a tv show once and rerun forever. Person here saying that it pays to put out new content every week, aka sports.
Pace of play initiatives are well intentioned and can help. However, unless the league lets players show off some personality and character in the field, it will still be boring. Too many unwritten rules and restrictions in the MLB, this stifles the creativity and personalities of its players. Yasiel Puig almost always gets in trouble with his bat flips, but they should look at how much buzz it generated for the game.
Been saying this for so long. It's why everyone knows Bryce Harper, but nobody knows Trout (even though he's the greatest player of his generation).
I think baseball has much improved in both aspects over the years. Not only has the pace of play increased dramatically from the new rules that most fans like but the rise of Ohtani has filled in that void of baseball having their “MJ” or “Ronaldo” or “Messi” etc.
The MLPA is boss! They got their guaranteed contracts by being willing to go on strike for entire seasons.
F unions... they are a disease in the economy
Marvin Miller was a boss.
@@cookiemon87 Unions got you the weekend, working hours, regulated safe jobs etc. Don't buy into the propaganda and brainwashing that corporate bought politicians spread. Unions protected the workers while business tried to leach off them and make as much profit as they desired off the backs of the worker.
@@eshai27 that's not true.,.. several well known economists have disproven all that union propaganda
Cookie mon players unions r the only unions that makes sense
Generally if you played baseball growing up, you tend to like the sport. Baseball and football are neck in neck as my favorite sports. I can sit and watch a baseball game from beginning to the end. It’s certainly a harder sport to make it to the big leagues. You got rookie ball, A, Double AA and Triple AAA, than finally the big leagues, after all that they should make the most money. Basketball players do pretty good, The NHL contracts lately have looked better, I hate NFL contracts, the player has very little leverage. Given the short career, I’d likely advise a player to hoard most of their money and live like a regular person, short of being a quarterback or kicker, your career will likely be 10 years or less.
2:00 41 million is still an insane amount of money especially for a guy didn’t play well after, so unless he blew all his money already he doesn’t have to work another day in his life
Well compared to the impact the body takes it not the same a lot of these guys won’t be speaking properly nor walking etc etc for that small amount of money they are getting playing football compared to MLB players on average.
@Moist Gnome it is that simple. Invest it in a safe stock and collect dividends
I myself would personally argue that the NBA has the best contract. If you're talking to which league makes the most money out of contracts, it's the MLB, however, I would argue that you see these insane MLB contract like Mike Trout, 430 mil for TWELVE YEARS, where in the NBA, the best players make James Harden 228 mill for 4 years(half of what the MLB makes at a quarters length) or Steph Curry 201 million for 5 years, is a quarter or half of an MLB contract length with nearly half or more than a half of MLB best players contract, that's with a SOFT CAP in the NBA. If you want the MLB, NBA, and NFL to play on an EVEN FIELD with no contracts, the NFL will win this game, HOWEVER, the one thing about the NFL is that there's a max of 1696 players in the league as opposed to the NBA who can have a max of 450 players only(53 players per NFL roster while 15 per NBA roster) which the money does not get evenly distributed, that works against the NFL having the biggest contract but we know players do not get paid evenly and a quarterback makes the most which it should be. so to break it down
TLDR - MLB, however, they get these 300/400 mill contract for a length of 10-12 years while the NBA at most can go up to 6 years with best players earning 200-300, Lebron could have broken this record. Half or a quarter of the MLB length in contract with half the earning, NBA wins. That's with a cap in the NBA and NFL, imagine if the NBA and NFL had no cap, NFL wins, however, it's unfair the NFL has to distribute to 1696 players unevenly as it should be while in the NBA, the distribution is 450 unevenly distributed. Lebron could gotten that 350 mil for 4-6 years had it not been the NBA easing into the TV money, and not with the Lakers either, he'd have to stay with the Cavs. 350 for 4-6 years? almost Mike Trout money with a quarter of mike trout contract length.
I'd like to see the trend on attendance before, during, and after a World Series. My interest really being in seeing how long does the wave last before that team's attendance matches the rest of the league.
So basically tv deals are the reason that professional sports have 100+millions salary caps
mike trout 430 mil contract brought me here
i think that teams tanking are damaging baseball, thats why nobody wants to spend to go and see a 95 losses team, they should put a minimum payroll for everybody, so competition gets a bit more even
LOL there is a minimum payroll of over 500k... you think baseball players should get payed EVEN MORE?
Perhaps put in a relegation system in all leagues. Get rid of the drafts and develop academies so every team in every league plays with a purpose.
@@redsox258 I think he meant teamwide. So if you se the minimum to $30m and a team spends $18m knowing it's going to tank it has to distribute the remaining $12m anyway. The NBA has a similar mechanism and I think Philly used it for a couple of years.
you mean a maximum?
@@camdened123456 #TrustTheProcess? I'm still waiting for the Sixers to be a dynasty that Hinke promised
One quick thing you got wrong. You said that baseball rosters have half the amount of players as NFL teams, but this is not true. You are correct if you talk about the 25 man roster or the 40 man active roster but the organization actually has upwards of 100-150 players not to mention dozens of coaches. This is because baseball organizations have 4 teams each. That being said 99% of these players make less than 500k and not just that players not on the 40 man roster can make as little as 25k a year so they make dirt.
your talking about minor league players, thats not the same thing lol
Yeah the MLB team is nearly or just under half of the NFL depending on the time of the year. Minor league players don't count on payroll, nor do they get paid even close to the same as an Major League player.
4 teams each? Umm..let's count it. Rookie ball, low A, high A, Double A, Triple A, plus the Dominican Summer League team. That's at least 6.
Minimum rookie contract salary once you make it to big time is still like 550k. I'm not complaining lol
But you can make more on NFL as a rookie. A young MLB prospect just went to NFL because he can make much more money in his rookie years - this is important. Imagine a 23 years old NFL player getting hurt to the point he can't play the game anymore, now picture a MLB player which was making around 550k, add to this the fact that he won't be able to make that kind of money in his life anymore. Where would you play as a rookie, NFL or MLB?
Fagner F Souza NFL players average career span is like 3 years. Baseball players are less likely to have severe injuries. Arbitration and once hitting FA market bring in the big bucks. Long term baseball is best. Expecting you have big bucks as a rookie in NFL just to have your knee blown out after a few weeks and all that money is gone because it’s not guaranteed. Yeah get your head smashed in for non guaranteed money
@@97NikeSb Average MLB careers are actually not much longer they are a little longer because they have smaller rosters which means less fringe players make the big league but unless you preform at a high level which most average players do not, your career is over in three years or less are you are playing for a little over the minimum. Also it is not like great pitchers do not blow arms out every year.
Best contracts but tell me another sport where they plays 162 games a season
@Moist Gnome no, not really.
Even if a player played in every major T20 league, they'd still come out to less than 100 games.
They would have to play either 12 Test matches, or 30 ODIs and T20Is each to reach about 160, but it's unlikely that a player playing a full slate of international matches would also be available for full seasons of the IPL, Big Bash, etc.
Domestic cricketers also do not reach such numbers. An English county cricketer who played all 16 of his team's matches in the County Championship gets at most 64 days of cricket, plus maybe another 25-30 days of limited overs cricket (assuming they are selected for all formats).
Nikolai Yankov yes but contract are guaranteed they play 162 games but you don’t get as tired as the others...you don’t work like the others there are players that have 5 millions contract and don’t play every game
The #1 reason for large Mlb contracts is the powerful bargaining power that is the result of Mlb players having the longest average careers amongst other sports...this results in a stronger collective will to hold out for a better CBA
ian7linder that’s a stupid point. Stick to drawing idiot.
The MLB attendance was 69M in 2018. The NBA has 22M and they’re half as many games in the NBA. Also, speeding up game time won’t tune in youths. The way to tune in youths is offense, really good pitching and more celebrations by players
But pitchers hate when you celebrate on them xD
Ya they want to end unwritten rules like no bat flips so it’s more exciting
Yea lets just completely forget about the NHL
michael McCandless who cares about the second fastest growing sport in North America anyways lol
Yeah.... and let's not forget about the WNBA. My Favorite!
NHL won’t making it into top 3 and soccer will push it back further.
Let’s be honest , who gives the slightest damn about hockey ?
Liam South nhl top stars make north of $8M a season, guys like Toews and Kane rake in $13M a season, baseball rookies make 545K, NHL player minimum is 845k, dude get your facts straight
i don’t mind getting 545k a year 😔
YoungDaggerPepe id love to get that money
Wasnt this posted like yesterday?
Every mlb season i say ehh ill catch the next game theres 100 left and i never watch one game lol
I like baseball
Just clarifying:
Football does not equal the NFL and basketball does not equal the NBA.
The average person who says they like football best may well be thinking of college (or even high school) ball.
Likewise, millions of basketball fans watch college ball almost exclusively. The single greatest competition in American basketball, at least in terms of widespread excitement, is March Madness, not the NBA playoffs.
March Madness is nowhere near as exciting as the NBA playoffs. College players are nowhere near as good as NBA players, therefore the NBA has much higher quality basketball.
I’m just thinking about , ok if the league average of fans is 27,000 per game. Than you have about 80 home games per team, that should be huge profit anyway even if they don’t fill the seats based on the amount of games. Basketball has smaller arenas but a lot of season games as well but not nearly as much as Mlb. So that’s mostly where the money comes from.
Some people can't afford the tickets
Average Baseball ticket $76 dollars, NBA $78, NFL $100.
Maybe the views are going down for all sports is because people are starting to get rid of cable
Yeah also helps that a hotdog is $9, a tall can beer is $16, a bottled water is $6 , parking lot is $25-$80, a bag of popcorn $7.50, a pretzel with chess $9 , a soda $6.50 , oh makes sense now. Stadium prices
Mahomes just eclipsed all American sports contracts with his $500 million+ contract and can’t forget his multimillion dollar endorsements.
This holds up in 2021
What about nhl, I feel neglected as an nhl fan
Nobody watches nhl as much. NFL #1 Always, NBA then MLB.
Top 3 sports
1. Football
2. Basketball
3. Baseball
NHL isn’t as popular as them
I love the game but I haven’t been to one in years, they are not affordable for the average person
They are affordable if you go to a day game on tuesday or wednesday. Take off work that day and get really cheap seats trust me I do it every year and at yankee stadium.
$15 dollars isn't affordable????
Such disrespect for the NHL their games are just as physical as NFL and stat based as MLB. And their seasons and playoffs are equally long as the NBA
A sport not being mentioned is not a sign of disrespect.
As a tigers fan i dont watch because 1. The teams ass 2. Most of the players will be in the minors or new players from the minors.
Ill watch the occasional game but watching a losing team in baseball is painful.
A losing team seems like just a farm system for the better teams.
Biggest thing I got from this is that the NFL is still the most popular sport in America yet as risky as it is for the players, they are paid the least.
Yes it's extremely risky, But baseball is so much harder. It's arguably the hardest sport in America. But yes, NFL players should be payed much more.
That’s why I love baseball is let’s risk and pay more money 😂😂😂 American football 🏈 is more risky and the salaries are not guarantee wtf
We have to admit there the only league who plays over 100 games for regular season !
I'm from Germany. We enjoy soccer the most. Our national league has 34 games, no play-offs at all. I was shocked when I heard that the regular season of the MLB has +160 games! That's so cool. You can basically watch a game every day/night during the season. I'm also a huge fan of statistics. If I had grown up in the US, I'd surely were a baseball fan. But getting into it now is quite impossible. There is no media coverage and nobody is talking about it. Fantasy baseball seems also awesome to me.
I have a weak spot in my heart for America anyway. I was born and raised in Heidelberg were there was the headquarter of the US Army in Europe and +10% of our population was American. Sadly I've never been to the States, maybe someday. I won't die before making a journey to the US.
To be fair after 3 years MLB players they have 3 years if arbitration so depending on their skill level they could make league minimum until the 6th year of their rookie deal then they can enter free agency.
Football is boring. 7 second playa with 45 second breathers.
That’s an opinion. I like Football way more than Baseball.
Yes football might have way more downtime then baseball but the chances of something happening in football is greater. Baseball, sometime you'll go with 3 hours games and like 3 exciting moments will happen. Football you have high chances of a big pass, big run, pick 6, trick plays, sack, crazy catches. Baseball moments are far from each other..
@@robber9612. Baseball players are way richer though.
America is the best I love both football and Baseball
That is like saying the 100 meter sprint is boring and only the marathon is exciting
It doesn't help that your game is 4 hours long
I'm proud to be part of the 9%.
I know this is about baseball, however unlike the MLB, the National Hockey League rookie minimums are 925$ k per year for three years. The minimum salary is $650,000. The NHL, is the lowest paying of all pro sports (with exception of North American MLS), but the bargaining agreement, INSURES all player contracts are guaranteed. If a player is injured, he is paid. If he is sick, paid. If he goes to rehab, paid. etc. etc. This is a way for it to even itself out, in some ways, to MLB, NBA, NFL, albeit the contract money in those sports is sick.
The audacity to only guarantee $41,000,000 though!
Hey CNBC next time put NHl too
This is why people choose baseball when they play multiple sports
Actually D -1 Football , Lacrosse and Track and Field athletes are the most likely to play multiple sports in high school but Baseball players are more more likely to be multiple sports athletes then Basketball , Hockey and Soccer players.
Though not a hard cap, most teams like to stay under the luxury tax.
I have no problem with athletes making millions. That's being said, salaries in baseball have gotten way out of hand. A salary cap would be good for the owners, the players, and the fans in the long run.
@Starlin Peña
You obviously haven't passed the 6th grade. Your argument is baseless, juvenile, and ineffective.
@@peterlangdon1444
This is literally the dumbest comment I've read on this matter. You really need to educate yourself on how things work in regards to a salary cap. Why is it that every dumb person in this world sees everyone as a victim?
And then there’s spring training
A typical baseball game last approx 3 hours.....4, 15 minute quarters in football, takes 3 hours. Which sport is harder to watch?...FOOTBALL. Between commercials, downtime, flags, replay, commercials, replay replay, commercials, replay....3 hours of "devoted" football time accounts for about 11 minutes of actual play.
Yea but that action is fast and furious also Football fans watch for the story line just as much as they do for the action same can be said for Baseball fans people love to watch a story unfold.
is talent vs. hard work !
Very easy to see why! They played a 162 game . I could be wrong but that’s a lot of game
Is this post Covid 19 ?
The NHL has a $81.5M cap.
The Fozzy Bear yeah and it’s a hard cap
Easy answer is they sell more seats and play over a hundred more professional games than any other sport. NBA players definitely do not deserve their salaries.
nfl needs to raise the salary cap and guarantee contracts seriously
Baseball needs a pitch clock now. Even then, the World Series and MLB Postseason get very similar ratings compared to the NBA.
Salvatore Sultana The Nba ratings have been down the whole season. Probably gonna get worse especially that their biggest star isn't even in the playoffs.
@@champion909 yes
Salvatore Sultana Notice how these videos and espn never mention that, but just want to knock baseball.
Mike Trout signed a $427 million dollar extension with the Angels
When the NFL players went on strike in 1987, the owners used replacement players. A lot of regular players crossed the picket line. The NFL has a hard salary cap and no guaranteed contracts.
When baseball players went on strike in 1994, the owners flirted with using replacement players. Nor a single regular player crossed the picket line. MLB has guaranteed contracts and just a luxury tax to control salaries.
Plus baseball is British, not American.
So that explains it...MLB needs to do a better job at marketing it’s star players especially in the social media age...what does MLB need to do to get new fans???
Like the narrator said. MLB relied more on stats to sell the game, not the face of the player. Unlike NBA, which is star-driven sport, and the star has more global selling. Sure, there was an exception (Derek Jeter for example).
Brian Fantana makes sense 1998 HR race got fans interested that’s why I became a fan
Yeah, like F1. It's new owner is making a good job on UA-cam, Twitter etc., they even listen to the fans posting many of the things they ask like old races, very detailed crash videos where you'll able to make your call on who's to blame and many things more!
Rugby is on that path too!
I always underestimate how big the NFL really is. College Football too…
Learn how to hit a baseball kids, guaranteed $550k for 3 years.
I wish my parents would've got me to play when I was kid instead of me starting to play in high school. Then again, my high school belongs to the lowest division in the state, so it wouldn't have mattered how good one does.
The % of people that actually make it to the majors is so friggin low. Kids, you're better off getting an education.
The Nimble Ninja
Exactly! High school teams are really picky on their starters too .
Baseball is a sport where you gotta be well known and liked or you won’t get a shot
Baseball losing popularity is not the sport, it’s everything around the sport. It more has to do with the media. Go on ESPN, they might show 5 minutes of highlights before they go talk about stuff like Antonio Brown quitting from the NFL. Also, the ball is rarely in play. A lot of people say baseball is a dying sport, but the MiLB hit an all time high in attendance by more than 1 million fans so the sport isn’t dying. Also, baseball still has 26M youth baseball players which is the same amount as youth basketball players
Baseball will probably never be Number 1 aging but you a right it is not a dying sport there are millions of people in the US who Baseball is there favorite and a lot of fans who like the NFL,NBA or NHL as number 1 also like Baseball
And Kyler still choose football smh
That's because he is trying to build a brand for himself, which is actually looked down upon in baseball. The viewership of 18-49 year olds for baseball in the US is approaching single digits. Football is only growing more popular with the youth. Say what you will, but Kyler knows exactly where the money is and will be in the next 10 years.
Number one answer: Greed and a really good players union.
Attendance would rise if they made it easier for people to get concessions. MLB if you're listening, make an app that you can scam your ticket so it knows your seat so you can order from your phone and then they bring it back to you having charged your credit card.
Said the laziest man in the world.
@@James40000 I go to games to watch them play not hunt for a decent beer.
Now I am surprised this video doesn't mention the NHL at all. As I just looked it up the NHL salary cap for 2019 is only $83 million. And the luxury tax threshold for this season in MLB is $209 million. Now you know why MLB players get paid way more than any other pro sports athletes.
Id like to see the hourly rate for hours actually worked across each sport.
Baseball players get the lowest per game pay out of all three and likely practice more.
Probably because they simply play a lot more games so the per game rate goes down
Nba players destroy this ….they make 50 mil per year for half the work of mlb players.
Sheffield was traded lol
Guaranteed contracts are ridiculous.
SuperGroob true dat and even if u get injured like for example if you’re signed to a max contract say 123 million they still have to pay u which sucks for the owners
@Starlin Peña NOPE... ! Not kidding. It's utterly ridiculous. 30 million a year even if you're no longer playing. How does anybody deserve that?? If your boss lets you go or if you can't work, do YOU get paid?? I know I don't.
MLB is fun just a tad bit slower
I actually really hate the treatment of the NFL players. They shouldn't exactly have fully guaranteed contracts per say, but ot should definitely be higher. 75-80%? The MLB isn't great I'm realizing through a franchise mode on MLB the Show 19 (I'm late, but I never would have bought it unless I got dead bored) and have a star player at 27 years old that I'm going to pay about 4.5M over 4 years which will last through his prime. Just saying, it's not great just because one guy gets a fully guaranteed 330M contract.
What the MLB needs to do for me is pretty much cut down the grind. I don't exactly care about 99% of games because only the end of the season matters. I don't watch any sports live because no TV, but summer baseball on TV is only on if there are no recordings I can get caught up, no household chores, etc. You've got to do a lot to draw my interest in an MLB game during the best time of the year to get out and be alive.
Because baseball’s influential fans are the richest of us.
Simple answer it’s the best sport.
I have two great ideas to make baseball entertaining. (I don't watch baseball)
1. Make bases a big bigger so we can see more attempts at stolen bases.
2. Make the run? lane bigger when they are going to a base or stealing it gives them a chance to juke the baseman.
It would be entertaining to see someone get juked
The main reason why it’s not as good is becoming their is no parity
Bruh 549k a year for a rookie for 3 years wtf that’s so much average parents make like 40k a year
How in the name world cup final 2022 viewers with 1.5B people sees that one game and still have low in salary??
This is true for the top 20% but much different story for the bottom 80%, 40% make the league minimum and the medium salary is fourth of the four major sports, below average players will not make it past the rookie deal, average players only stay in the league if they play for a little above minimum because most teams can not afford to contend(they do not think these guys will make a difference in wines or sales) above average players will make more contending teams like to fill out there roster with these guys but unless you are one of the top 150 players on earth you will not get the big money. Truth is a player who make's the MLB is more likely to have a career less then three years then to get the big money
The game of baseball is amazing. Greatest sport ever!
What about the NHL
No mention of the NHL at all.
20.5 *7 nba finals are 7 games
2:48 the nfl salary cap is going up to $224.8 million after 2023 in 2024 the salary cap will go up $256 million to be projected to be.
Floyd made more then entire yearly salary of the Yankees and the red socks combined in one fight😆😆 baseball fans let’s talk money 😂😂😂😂
Liam South
😂😂😂 that’s an entire franchise🤷♂️🤷♂️🤷♂️ I’m talking one guy u should think before u post or the sunflower seeds are blocking ur judgement.... the highest athlete contracts in history 1 Floyd Mayweather 2 Floyd Mayweather 3 Floyd Mayweather
Liam South and btw Floyd made a billion in 22 years the Yankees been around since 1913 🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️ very efficient 😂😂😂
@@brusk3978 Floyd can't read and had to get beat up to get that money. Not lose just get beat up. 1 bil aint cool if you can't remember who your kids are in 15 years.
TBE
Ricoteering draft selection outcomes and Existences..
Kenny Vawter
They need let players get on the juice again Lol baseball was never more popular during the steroid era
The problem is how prevalent social media is it’s a matter of time someone does something or dies and blames it on steroids
Even worse kids and teens watching could start doing it . And the parents will blame it on the league and sue
Only 41million lol
spongermon yea only LMAO
Why not even mention the NHL?
I'm surprised basketball is that low. The way they've expanded, you would think they're almost double that of the MLB and competing closely with the NFL. And how is the NFL still that high despite the Blackphopbia, concussions, etc.?
Start the playoffs and the world series around 6pm and not 8pm.
Regional deals is what generating this money
Best contract Worldwide.maybe only USA
The MLB has no ha4d salary cap and that's the way players want it... the lack of competitiveness in the league is a byproduct of that... why do you think baseball is not America's game anymore?
Long term contracts have not worked out. Baseball needs to rethink. More money should be rookies and minor league. There should be a 20% tax on big contracts and redirect that money to the rookies and minor leaguers.
Why I SMH on these Collage FB and BB players going this Pro Sport. MLB Players with speed and talent are dream picks for any MLB Team.. And for Pitchers, if you have a Arm and knows how to throw a pitch with speed and control you have time to grow in the minor leagues where you build your talent and get noticed for the MLB Draft and three years in the Big Leagues you get that Guaranteed Pro MLB Contact and Paid. Not Suspect with the NFL who hardly pays that contract. MLB needs players who could Steal Bases and Hit. They need Speed in the outfield to catch fly balls hit..
Exactly, look at kyler murray. He was already given a huge signing bonus. And now he's going to risk his body and overall health to play football. Idk who got into his head, but he made the wrong decision.
Baseball needs a salary cap
name all 71 stats
I always wondered how teams always got all this money to pay their players