I'm getting real annoyed with all this moaning about salaries and "market correction." Salaries will always rise. Period.
I'm going to have more to say on this later, once I get all the data together, but here's a link on payrolls and median salaries: http://asp.usatoday.com/sports/baseball/salaries/default.aspx. Have fun with this, and see the hysterics of Selig and his cronies when it comes to payrolls. Of much interest is the option on this that allows you to check median salaries.

I think the problem is that although the top players may be paid what they are worth, bad research and good marketing by agents leads MEDIOCRE players to be ridiculously overpaid--as evidenced by the list below on what Hicks has paid. Neyer put together an article a few days ago on A-Rod being UNDERPAID, or something to that extent, and what I want to know is that what extent does giving a marginally better than average player a giant contract influence the value of the true superstars.

And Peter Angelos has always been an asshole. Or a model lawyer. The archetype of owner hypocrisy was in 1995 when Jerry Reisendorf gave that $55 million contract to Albert Belle after being the most vocal of all owners w/r/t skyrocketing player salaries.

Anyway, I have to get back to work now. How many days left to the baseball season?