We all know baseball’s pay structure is wonky. Cody Bellinger earned $605,000 the season he won the National League MVP in 2019. The Angels paid Albert Pujols $240 million to collect dust as a past-his-prime Hall of Fame statue in the field for ten years. Big money is skewed toward players in their thirties, who almost always produce less than their cou…
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