Your average baseball fan has no idea how much the average professional baseball player makes. This is perfectly understandable—your average baseball fan doesn’t pull up Fangraphs and Baseball-Reference on the daily. But it also means that an awful lot of baseball fans incorrectly assume that baseball players are all rich in the same way that casual concertgoers think that their favorite bands are rolling in the dough.
If this is you, don’t worry. I’m here to set you straight! And even if this isn’t you and you know exactly how much the MLB minimum salary is and who on your favorite team is making that sum, well, you have something in common with the average sports fan: you’re both extremely bad at comprehending large numbers.