Pay me now or pay me later was a catchy commercial slogan designed to stress the importance of preventive maintenance with your vehicle – an easy to understand line that ignoring the basics had consequences. Those could be costly consequences.
The same applies to baseball.
The salaries in baseball have exploded exponentially over the years to where just the minimum wage is $507,000 a season and with the new Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) that may escalate to $600, 000 per season. Toss in pension and health care benefits and payroll is a costly item.
A driver has certainly been the advent of free agency, but don’t exclude arbitration that has seriously affected salary structure.