If Verlander makes 30 starts next year for the Mets, he will get approximately $1.43 million per start. If he throws 100 pitches in each of those starts, he will be paid approximately $14,333 per pitch. Amazing.
This is certainly one of the cornerstones of Crane’s tenure, but it hardly encompasses their entire strategy. Nor should it: MLB is a zero-sum industry where your competitors are increasingly trying to exploit the same inefficiencies within the same finite talent pool. Remember how the Astros bought some Edgertronic cameras and suddenly a bunch of other teams were doing the same? Everyone is trying to keep up with everyone else. Well, maybe not the Pirates.
I am still waiting for generational wealth. Methinks it may be too late for me.
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My granddad unexpectedly inherited a bunch of money in his late seventies, totally out of the blue. Not “generational” by any means but there’s always hope, eh?
Not for me. On both sides of my family, I am the last one left except for a few cousins younger than I.
Wasn’t even family, it was an acquaintance from an old job who died a hermit but who’d apparently appreciated his kindness over the years (and named him as beneficiary without his knowledge). I was very young at the time but it was absolutely wild. So hey… maybe there’s someone out there.
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Hope springs eternal, I guess. I blame my parents. If I had been LH, I would still be pitching and getting one LH hitter out each game.
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But not for your kids!
I tell my dad that I blame him for not being an industrial tycoon.
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Peoples change when working with number of
Well said.
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Eloquent even.
Short and indecipherable. The anti-Noe.
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But many people left a job that gave you a comfortable lifestyle for a one that gave you a more comfortable lifestyle. Many people have problems with contentment and knowing when they have enough. For many people, enough only comes when they think they have more than someone else. Whether it is highest contract for a SS or biggest salary among my brothers, friend group, etc… it is all the same, the only difference is scale.
I think we’re on the same page.
I just reject the notion that the economic realities that I face compare in any way whatsoever with any human in any line of work who earns $25M in their life, much less someone who earns it multiple years in a row.
$18M, sure. But not $25M.
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How about $43M multiple years?
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$18MM? That’s like five years salary, right?
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I am really thankful I was not afflicted with that. I was very happy at the law firm I joined after my clerkship, and I retired from there after almost 40 years even though I could have made more money at other firms.
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Especially if LMJ is injured, then we part with no pitchers. Anyone see Whitley lately?
My dad told me in my early teens, there are three ways a man can get rich. One - be born rich. Two - marry into wealth. Or, three - be really exceptionally special at something. I always knew one and three were out and I failed at number two. But alas, I am still happy.