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Originally Posted by mbyron
The money in MLB does not trickle down to MiLB as much as it might. Think of it this way: the average MLB umpire makes maybe 10-20% (depending on experience) of the average MLB player salary. If the MiLB umps made a comparable percentage of the average MiLB player salary, how much would they make?
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I don't see how this analogy can have traction in a sport where the Marlin's entire payroll is exceed by
7 Yankees players' annual salaries. There's just too much whacko economics in every aspect of MLB...
none of it makes sense, much less umpire pay.