I’ve long been fascinated by the economics of baseball: from Michael Lewis’s Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game and Jon Passah’s The Game: Inside Baseball’s Power Brokers to the 2019 (not)hot stove and rumors of a possible 2021 strike. This potential labor disruption has led to early rumblings from fans (and even a few players) that players are paid too much given that they “play a kids’ game” and make multi-million dollar salaries while owners assume the financial risk. (See the replies to this Jon Heyman tweet for a sampling.
Rockies fandom in the time of the money and information
