Its Still Just A Game

So baseball owners are losing money? Or perhaps it is that they aren’t making as much as they want. The New York “we will buy a pennant “ Yankees have offered C. C. Sabathia somewhere around a 137 guaranteed million dollars to toss a baseball every 5th day of he regular season.

“As the saying goes, if you have to look at the price tag, you probably can’t afford the cost, and other teams will shudder at the Sabathia price tag, as set by the Yankees”.

Use any measure of fiscal responsibility you want to apply. There is no baseball player worth that kind of money. That will not stop the pennant hungry Yankees. To put things in perspective, Sabathia’s salary would find the payroll of the Tampa Bay Rays for the next three years. Still they would enough left over to perhaps pick up a bargain basement free agent.