Hi All,
I just wanted to have a little fun with math today. I surely don't want this to be deemed an non-educational web log.
Here is what the now New York Yankees C.C. Sabathia will be working for this upcoming year after signing a 7 year $161 million contract. This will be fun.
Of course the obvious, he will be making $23 million a year.
The average major league starter has 35 starts per year (depending on the number of starters the team has). That equates to $657,143 per start.
A quality start is considered to be 6 plus innings so let's use that as the gauge here (anything more would be gravy). C.C. will make $109,523 per inning.
If C.C. can win 20 of his starts, that would equate to $1,150,000 per win.
If he loses the other 14 or so starts, this assuming that he has zero no-decisions that would total $1,642,857 per loss. Yes that's right, he will make more than a million and a half dollars to suck.
The average pitcher in the major leagues averages between 12-15 pitches per inning. Worst case scenario (15) his price per pitch would be $208.62 per pitch.
Man....I was born in the wrong decade.
Ahhhhh...........the beauty of a global economic downturn.
1 comment:
Lets apply this same math to the first big free agent signing the Mets made that you were so happy about.
37 million for 3 years is 12.3 million a year for a closer.
Last year K-Rod only pitched in 68 innings which equates to $180,882 per inning pitched. Much more than the $109,523 CC will make.
Now lets look at the price per pitch. Using the same assumption of 15 pitches per inning, that is a costly $12,058 per pitch.
Now who has the better deal?
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