Major League baseball is the best sport for athletes to get their money as they can get as much money as possibly can get out of an owner. There is no limit on years or salary and contracts are guaranteed and players who have been in the majors for 10 years and 5 with the same team they can give a list of team they can traded to. If u are still not on a team 40-man roster after 3 or 4 seasons after they sign their first contract they can be picked up in the rule 5 draft and put on the 40-man roster for the team that pick them up and maybe have a chance to make the major league. The teams can spend as much as want like the Dodgers who have been around 200 million and all they have to send a nice cheque to the league. The money is distributed 50% to player benefits, 25% to benefits baseball in counties that have no high school baseball, 25% to a industry growth foundation. The Dodgers went 43.6 million over 189 million dollar payroll in 2015 and the Yankees have paid over 82% of all luxury tax since 2003. Zack Greinke signed a 6-year deal for 206 million with Arizona Diamondbacks and A-Rod signed a 10 year/250 million dollar deal with the Texas Rangers and must of that is guaranteed money.
The second best is the NBA because they also have guaranteed contracts with No.1 guy on a team can make really good money like LeBron James and Kevin Durant will make huge bucks like 31 millions in July 2016 as they can get 30% f the projected 97.2 million salary cap . So the NBA have 12-14 men team with the top 5 or 6 players making a good money and could be as many 8 or 9 players. The 2014-15 salary cap was 63 million with going over the cap with resigning their on players and they veteran player exception which is a million dollars on an one year deal. It is a very soft cap that is how Brooklyn nets went over the cap by 90 million and team like the Miami Heat could bring in LeBron and Bosh as they sign their contracts before Dwayne Wade did. The Miami Heat learned their lesson because in the summer of 1996 Juwan Howard agreed to 6 year/101 million the heat but problem was Alonzo Mourning resigned on paper before Howard signed and the NBA made him a free agent and he resign with the Wizards (Bullets) for 7/105.
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Tom Mehegan
