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Old 10-13-2017, 12:29 PM
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Pretty good gig for Cliff Lee too, he still gets $25m / yr and hasn't pitched in 3 years.
Lee got a buyout from his 2016 salary and was released, then retired prior to the 2016 season. He last got $25M in 2015
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Lee got a buyout from his 2016 salary and was released, then retired prior to the 2016 season. He last got $25M in 2015


Well, I guess he will have to find a way to live on that, huh?
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Well, I guess he will have to find a way to live on that, huh?
You think that's bad? I can't remember the last year I made even half that much.
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Any chance someone wants to adjust for inflation and post modern day equivalents?
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Any chance someone wants to adjust for inflation and post modern day equivalents?
I'm not gonna do all of them, but Ruth made $1,182,366.47 in 1930.
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Any chance someone wants to adjust for inflation and post modern day equivalents?
Don't have time for all that, but there's an inflation adjuster at the bottom of each player's page on baseball-reference.com

The most Babe Ruth made in 2017 dollars is about $1.3 million.

Fergus Malone's 1874 salary comes out to about $42,000.

Joe Cronin in 1944 made about $367,000.

Cliff Lee's 2015 salary comes out to $25,259,722.
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Don't have time for all that, but there's an inflation adjuster at the bottom of each player's page on baseball-reference.com

The most Babe Ruth made in 2017 dollars is about $1.3 million.

Fergus Malone's 1874 salary comes out to about $42,000.

Joe Cronin in 1944 made about $367,000.

Cliff Lee's 2015 salary comes out to $25,259,722.

Yeah well, Cliff Lee was better than Fergus Malone.
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I don't really have a lot of faith in those calculators. It ignores a lot. For example, if Ruth bought an apartment in NYC in 1930 with his money, that apartment value would far exceed whatever the 2017 dollar calculation is today.
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I don't really have a lot of faith in those calculators. It ignores a lot. For example, if Ruth bought an apartment in NYC in 1930 with his money, that apartment value would far exceed whatever the 2017 dollar calculation is today.
Alternatively, what if he bought a house in Detroit? A house that's now sitting on the market with an asking price of $10,000?

That is, why pick something that's done disproportionately well relative to the rate of inflation, consumer price index, rise in minimum wage, etc. as the means of undermining the validity of the calculator?

I mean, sure he could have bought an apartment in New York, but he could also have bought over a billion dollars in present-day value of vintage baseball cards for the same amount.
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