Baseball Payrolls down $47M

[Col Hogan]

And w all feel the pain those poor MLB players are feeling these days...

While overall payroll is down, the average player salary is up 2.7 percent to $3.24 million.

http://www.boston.com/sports/baseball/a ... 7_million/

[dbackjon]

Awww, poor babies...

[dgreco]

i understand how the average salary can be up and overall payroll will be down, but it sounds almost oxymoronic to hear doesn't it?

[AZGrizFan]

i understand how the average salary can be up and overall payroll will be down, but it sounds almost oxymoronic to hear doesn't it?

30 teams x 25 players x average salary = total payroll of MLB

If Average salary goes up, and # of teams and # of players per team stays constant, how can the TOTAL payroll for MLB go DOWN?

[slycat]

i understand how the average salary can be up and overall payroll will be down, but it sounds almost oxymoronic to hear doesn't it?

30 teams x 25 players x average salary = total payroll of MLB

If Average salary goes up, and # of teams and # of players per team stays constant, how can the TOTAL payroll for MLB go DOWN?

Guys at top are getting paid a lot and guys at the bottom get paid nothing. Must be a couple new really high salaries and a lot more low ones.

[AZGrizFan]

30 teams x 25 players x average salary = total payroll of MLB

If Average salary goes up, and # of teams and # of players per team stays constant, how can the TOTAL payroll for MLB go DOWN?

Guys at top are getting paid a lot and guys at the bottom get paid nothing. Must be a couple new really high salaries and a lot more low ones.

Doesn't matter. Mathmatically, if the AVERAGE goes up, and the # of players remains the same, TOTAL payroll has to go up. What am I missing here?

[slycat]

Guys at top are getting paid a lot and guys at the bottom get paid nothing. Must be a couple new really high salaries and a lot more low ones.

Doesn't matter. Mathmatically, if the AVERAGE goes up, and the # of players remains the same, TOTAL payroll has to go up. What am I missing here?

Yeah you are right. No matter what the number of players shouldn't change so the average would have to go up.

[Cleets Part 2]

Guys at top are getting paid a lot and guys at the bottom get paid nothing. Must be a couple new really high salaries and a lot more low ones.

Doesn't matter. Mathmatically, if the AVERAGE goes up, and the # of players remains the same, TOTAL payroll has to go up. What am I missing here?

Are you sure about that..?
Care to make a wager...

[AZGrizFan]

Doesn't matter. Mathmatically, if the AVERAGE goes up, and the # of players remains the same, TOTAL payroll has to go up. What am I missing here?

Are you sure about that..?
Care to make a wager...

sure...prove me wrong...