No one is ever going to call baseball an individual sport. It takes a complete group effort to be the last team standing at the end of the year. Anyone who follows Major League Baseball knows this to be true. Still, just because it takes a team to win a ‘ship, that doesn’t mean some players can’t earn themselves a little extra booty.
According to the good folks at Forbes, the average MLB salary in 2017 is $4.47 million. For most of us, this sort of payday would be enough to bring out our “happy dance.