MLB: NBA and NFL salaries surpassed those of the Major Leagues in less than 10 years

The current labor struggle between MLB players and their union, the MLBPAagainst the owners of the teams and the commissioner Rob Manfred, is keeping the 2022 Major League season hanging by a very fine thread, with less than two weeks to officially start spring trainingit seems that there will be no agreement and everything indicates that we will have the second season shortened by less than three years.

The truth is that MLB has evolved little in terms of salary compared to other sports leagues such as the NBA or the NFL, since according to data from the @MQ27Outs account, the minimum salary in the Major Leagues in 2011 was 414 thousand dollars, rising to $570,500 in 2021, up 37% over 10 years.

Compared to the NBA, the minimum salary in 2011 was $458,000, almost doubling its value for 2021 with the minimum being almost $1 million, with $898,000 an increase of 96%. The NFL also saw a significant jump, going from $375,000 in 2011 to $660,000 in 2021, an increase of 76%.

The worrying thing about all this is perhaps not the salary itself, but the number of players who earn these amounts, since according to data from The Associated Press and Travis Sawchik of The Score, about 57% of the players who participated in the campaign 2021 they earned the minimum wage, while in the NBA the percentage of players who earn the minimum is just 3% or in the NHL it is 23%.

Although it is true that in recent years there have been signings of large contracts of more than 300 million dollars in total value, such as those of Mookie Betts, Mike Trout, Francisco Lindor or Fernando Tatis Jr., just to mention a few, the overwhelming Most professional ballplayers earn little compared to the money they make or their counterparts in other sports.

Gabriel Delgado

I started as a rookie at Al Bat in early 2018 and am in my third season covering Major League Baseball as a web reporter. I’m a fan of the San Francisco Giants, number one defender of Barry Bonds, and hater of the Los Angeles Dodgers. Fernando Tatis Jr., Juan Soto and Ronald Acuña are the future of baseball, Mike Trout is overrated, and the Astros deserved to have the World Series taken from them for their cheating. Besides baseball, I also enjoy football, flag football, basketball, and just about any other game that involves a ball or ball. I’m also an amateur musician, a penniless gamer and very nerdy. Graduated in journalism from the University of Guadalajara, I graduated in 2017. Born in the world capital of shrimp, Escuinapa, Sinaloa. I lived for a while in Australia; I survived giant spiders, tasmanian devils and fought a kangaroo and didn’t die trying.

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