Seems like every time a Major League Baseball megastar like Manny Machado or Bryce Harper gets a contract, the conversation always steers towards what NBA and NFL players make for their services (which is how it should be).
The same thing happened on Tuesday when Mike Trout received a huge contract extension from the Los Angeles Angels. Players from both the NFL and NBA tweeted their responses to the best player in baseball getting a ton of cash (while still somehow being underpaid for what he’s worth) and of course the tweets turned toward what they’d make playing baseball:
The general reaction: Kids are going to learn baseball from now on:
In the NFL, where contracts aren’t fully guaranteed, this makes a lot of sense — why undergo that kind of physical beating for a short amount of time and not make that kind of money. In the NBA, there are some players who get outrageous contracts but because there’s a maximum salary, a player like LeBron James can only earn so much even though he’d probably be worth Trout money in an uncapped universe.
