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Wednesday, February 04, 2009

How much should Selig make?

By Tangotiger, 11:50 AM

Let’s say that the valuation of the thirty teams is around 15 billion$.  This would put MLB at about the 220th largest public company, in terms of market cap.  Last year, the 220th highest paid CEO made almost 8 million $.

I would think that if Selig were to retire, that the next commissioner of baseball will make around that much.  Selig however makes 18 million$.  That would put him as the #100 highest paid CEO.  And something tells me that if we look at the actual compensation for those executives in 2009, Selig will move up the ladder pretty fast.

As I said last year, Selig is way overpaid, and in no way should his career earnings (now at 130 million$ and counting) dwarf those of almost all MLB players.

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