gabe
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Bye bye Bo. $42 million a year for Bo Bichette is comical!
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Good on Bo for getting a big paychequeBye bye Bo. $42 million a year for Bo Bichette is comical!
Report: Bo Bichette, Mets agree to three-year, $126-million deal
Sad to see him go, but that's the game
evandyk
Senior Member
That makes him the fourth (? maybe? Hard to evaluate vs some of the contracts with huge deferred payments) highest paid player ever (on an annual basis), which was obviously too much to pay. I liked Bo, but not at 20% more than Vlad's price!
PL1
Senior Member
It's nuts. He's a defensive liability (or he is at best average at SS)
Northern Light
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Bye bye Bo. $42 million a year for Bo Bichette is comical!
Report: Bo Bichette, Mets agree to three-year, $126-million deal
$42 Million per year, for anyone, in any walk of life is comical. I get what your saying, that its comical even in the context of current baseball salaries; but the idea that anyone is paid roughly 35x the top neurosurgeon in Canada for throwing, catching or hitting a ball, however well is absurd.
doady
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MLB probably make billions per year. $42 million is nothing.
Northern Light
Superstar
42M is not 'nothing'; if baseball earns too much money due to lack of competition, there are ways to address that.
But lets be clear the average payroll for typical MLB team last year was 160M or just over 6M per year, per player, if that were reduced, merely to what the top neurosurgeon in the country might earn (1.5M per year); then you'd save ~4.4B per year, which would pay for a lot of healthcare, cheaper tuition or affordable housing.
Apply that math to all the major sports, see the dividend multiply, and yes CEO pay reduction should follow suit.
doady
Senior Member
I don't understand why you want to reduce Bo Bichette's salary to $1.5 million. Should Taylor Swift's salary be reduced to $1.5 million too?
I lost my driver's license due to epilepsy, and even I don't care if they make money than a neurosurgeon.
If MLB team makes hundreds of millions per year, then the top MLB players gonna make tens of millions per year. You want the billionaire team owner to pocket those hundreds of millions? Who is the little guy here?
If you want to reduce player salaries, just stop watching baseball. Get your friends and family to stop watching baseball. Ad revenue and ticket sales will decline. Voila, less money for the players.
I lost my driver's license due to epilepsy, and even I don't care if they make money than a neurosurgeon.
If MLB team makes hundreds of millions per year, then the top MLB players gonna make tens of millions per year. You want the billionaire team owner to pocket those hundreds of millions? Who is the little guy here?
If you want to reduce player salaries, just stop watching baseball. Get your friends and family to stop watching baseball. Ad revenue and ticket sales will decline. Voila, less money for the players.
evandyk
Senior Member
Cristiano Ronaldo gets a salary of $225M to putter around in the Saudi league.
Northern Light
Superstar
Yes.
You have my sympathy in regards to your medical issues; but I don't share or understand your point of view at all.
I just said that baseball teams could have their excess revenue curbed, so no.
That will change exactly nothing, and if you don't understand that.......well, I can't help you.
Northern Light
Superstar
Even more ridiculous. There's no logic or sense to that. People should be compensated for bettering the human condition.
Pro Sports players are essentially entertainers. I have no issues with compensating the best of those well; we all need entertainment; but the salaries imply that Rinaldo is performing a service almost 200x more valuable than the neurosurgeon who likely saved at least a couple of dozen lives last year.
Clearly that does not equate, and the compensation is unreasonable.
AlbertC
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Vladdy's farewell to Bo. The Mets visit the Blue Jays June 29 to July 1:
"Of course, I feel sad sad after playing with him for so many years, but like I've always said, this is a business, and you have to look out for what's best for you and your family. I wish him the best. We won't be teammates anymore, but our friendship will last forever."
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"Of course, I feel sad sad after playing with him for so many years, but like I've always said, this is a business, and you have to look out for what's best for you and your family. I wish him the best. We won't be teammates anymore, but our friendship will last forever."
Vladdy bids emotional farewell to his longtime friend
Toronto Blue Jays fans are continuing to process the shocking news of Friday's (Jan. 16th) bombshell of Bo Bichette electing to join the New York Mets on a thre
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Bojaxs
Senior Member
Buck Martinez announces his retirement. 
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Blue Jays icon Buck Martinez retires
Legendary announcer Buck Martinez announced his retirement from the booth on Friday after a career spanning over four decades.
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AlbertC
Superstar
The Santander signing last year keeps looking worse, as he needs shoulder surgery and expected to be out 5 to 6 months.
Bieber will miss the start of the season due to right forearm fatigue, while Bowden Francis will miss the entire 2026 season.
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Bieber will miss the start of the season due to right forearm fatigue, while Bowden Francis will miss the entire 2026 season.
Blue Jays lose Santander, Francis to surgery; Bieber to miss start of season
Attrition struck the Blue Jays on the eve of the first official workout for pitchers and catchers, with Anthony Santander and Bowden Francis headed for surgery and Shane Bieber due to miss the start of the season.
gabe
Senior Member
The Santander signing last year keeps looking worse, as he needs shoulder surgery and expected to be out 5 to 6 months.
Bieber will miss the start of the season due to right forearm fatigue, while Bowden Francis will miss the entire 2026 season.
Blue Jays lose Santander, Francis to surgery; Bieber to miss start of season
Attrition struck the Blue Jays on the eve of the first official workout for pitchers and catchers, with Anthony Santander and Bowden Francis headed for surgery and Shane Bieber due to miss the start of the season.
Santander is a dead weight. The jays went nearly the entire season without Santander in the lineup because of a bad shoulder! Now another season with the same issue. But Jays accomplished plenty without Santander last year.
Hopefully Bieber isn't out too long. That's the biggest worry. Bowden Francis absence is likely a non-factor for 2026. Even with injuries, the jays sill have a better team than last year!