The Price Is Right
David Price officially signed a 7 year $217M contract with the Boston Red Sox. We’ll get an idea of the ROI a couple years into the deal. None the less, lets break down how much money David Price will make.
$31,000,000 a year
Toronto FC’s 2015 payroll was $21,920,568. David Price will make $9 Million more than their entire roster. Toronto FC played 34 games last season. David Price is projected to start 32 games next season, earning him almost 7 figures per start.
$2,583,333 a month
A.J Pollock, outfielder for the Arizona Diamondbacks, 2015 Gold Glove Award winner and All-Star, Dallas Keuchel, the Al Cy Young winner, and Manny Machado, well he’s Manny Machado. All three ballplayers made about 500k in 2015, despite outstanding seasons. Each with W.A.R’s above 7, totaling to 21.65. Their collective salaries, $1,591,000, total to about a million less than what David Price will make in a MONTH next season.
$84,931 a day
In 2007, David Price was picked first by the Tampa Bay Rays after pitching for the Vanderbilt Commodores. Graduate from Vanderbilt’s Owen Graduate School of Management and you’ll start out making about $83,000/year working in HR. As rapper Chris Brown says, “I get what you get in ten years in two days.”
$3,583 a hour
The minimum AAA salary is $2,150 a month. How about making that much in an hour? Perhaps a few of these dollars could go towards these organizations minor leaguers? Thats a whole other story.
David Price will make $217 million over the next seven years because he’s one of the only 6’6” left handed men who can throw a 5oz ball 97mph. Simple supply and demand. Oh by the way, he’ll be making $9,000 per pitch. Todays lesson: Tell little Johnny to put down the action figure and pick up a baseball, that pen’s not going to throw itself.
Originally published at www.baseballwisdomco.com.
