Coral Gables, Florida (VIP-WIRE).- My admired Ran: All the baseball people in this More Here we admire your faculties towards the game and the enthusiasm that you put into each effort. The truth is, you are privileged, very few in the history of mankind have had the skills you exhibit for such a difficult sport.
And at 26 you wait for the arrival of your arbitration to get out of the minimum wage.
Yesterday, I heard someone from that world of the living comment, referring to you: “That young man from Havana is underpaid.”
Yes, of course, if they compare you with Mike Trout, who earns 36 million per season, you are very poor, with your 570,500 minimum salary.
But that of yours is equal to $21,130 a week (27 weeks of the season). And from 20 thousand to 24 thousand is what millions of workers who are considered well paid receive annually. Before them you are very rich.
Give importance to money, only up to a point. Baseball and you are much more important.
You are privileged because you can play ball well and because in a few more years you will be earning multimillion. Of course, “to whom daddy God gives it, let Saint Peter tell him, okay.”
They say that my lifetime batting average was 320 and that I won more than 300 games, but my highest salary was 3 thousand dollars per season and sometimes they took me out there to throw a little game for 100 dollars. And he was happy, because he was paid more than most workers.
From this More Here, where one sees everything and knows everything, I am going to give you some very sincere advice: Have fun playing, defend your uniform with gallantry, enthusiasm and a smile. In Tampa, because of the Rays, you are the most popular character at the moment. And throughout the baseball world you are admired and respected.
That’s why, with a whole life ahead of me, I think you’re doing well.
Major League Baseball has become so important, so productive for businessmen and players, that it is in danger. They have put him in danger of death, paradoxically, those same beneficiaries with such good income.
It happens that neither Commissioner Rob Manfred and his people nor Tony Clark and his people have the necessary quality to support such wealth.
Take good care of yourself. Try to avoid contaminating yourself with these evils. Keep being happy, that from here I will be waiting to take care of you.
And remember, friend Ran, baseball is above everything. Even above so many millions of dollars.
Hugs, good luck… Martin.
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Thanks to life, which has given me so much, even a reader like you.
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