Why do baseball players get paid a lot?

its the same for actors they have a gift, a talent, if you will, its God given and I am sure they all work very hard to get where they got. Work on your game go out and find your nitch maybe you can invent something and make a ton of money good luck

because when you play sport that has a total of 162 games a year and then adding the playoffs it is physicaly and mentally exhausting, and they dont just sit around on their ***es all day either, have you seen any highlights of Aaron Rowand running full speed into a fence, Matsui completely destroying his wrist going after a ball, and just recently Rafael Soriano got hit in the head by line drive off the bat of Vladimir Gurrerro and the ball was going at least 120 mph when it hit him, so why dont you rethink your question, and nobody else here knows what they are talking about except ChiCub26

baseball is a sport where if you win, you get a lot of money, and if you sell tikets you get even more $$$$ so managers pay their players for creating an image for the team, and for earning them their money Yankees are just rich, and waste money on good players, just for the sake of winning

They are greedy

It all began with the owners, plus Sports are not subject to anti-trust laws. Just go on strike and don't watch at the stadium or TV. Eventually they'll get the message.

George Steinbrenner caused this becasue he can afford to, and he has driven up the prices.

It is called capitalism. You earn what the market can/will bear.

Previous responses have pretty wel covered this one, except: Because people PAY them a lot. Rightly or wrongly, sports is a big business, with a lot of money. Personally, I think Social Workers should make the BIG money, but our society pays better to those few who can throw at 100 mph.

Some of these players sell tickets....like when Mark McGuire was in his home run record chase. The Cardinals weren't that great a team that year, but every game was sold out because of him. These type of players draw in the crowds. I agree that the amount of money they make for hitting a ball seems ridiculous and it is, but it's a business. I heard that Mark McGuire that year got $1 for every seat that was filled every game as a bonus.