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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: TimF who wrote (320000)1/11/2007 3:22:03 PM
From: tejek  Read Replies (2) of 1576791
 
Maybe that's true of the bigger clubs like the Yankees or the Red Sox but for teams like the Mariners with much smaller payrolls, most guys are brought up from the minors in their very early twenties.

Early twenties can still mean several years in the minors.

Don't play dumb, Tim. Its not attractive.

Most baseball careers go at least 12-15 years.

That isn't true. Quite a few players get called up to the majors but don't stick in the majors. If you look at the roster of a half way decent team, and track the players over time until they retire you mights see that most of their careers have gone at "at least 12-15 years". But a lot of other players pop up for a time and don't last long in the majors, they either bounce back and forth, or settle back to stay in the minors, or just give up and try doing something else for a living. These people account for only a small fraction of the total major league games played, but they account for a large fraction of the total number of players.]

I didn't say all players; I said most players. I am most familiar with the Mariners.....very few players drop out after a couple of years of play.....partly because baseball does the least damage to an athlete's body. In any case, the average baseball player makes over $2 million per year. If his career is only three years, he still makes more money than most people make in an entire life time.

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