Giancarlo Stanton will, likely, get $325 million dollars in exchange for playing for the Miami Marlins for 13 more years (assuming he doesn’t get traded or opts out).
That, scientifically, is known as a buttload of money. How much money? Let’s go through it…
$500 Million: The value of the Miami Marlins, according to Forbes. Yes, Jeffrey Loria is basically saying that Giancarlo Stanton represents 65% of the value of the team itself.
It is over 20 times Babe Ruth‘s career earnings after inflation.
It is over 1.6 times Ken Griffey Jr.’s career earnings after inflation.
It is over 1.2 times Barry Bonds‘ career earnings after inflation.
$311 Million: The GDP of Sao Tome and Principe, a island nation in the Gulf of Guinea
$785.20: The amount of money every person in the City of Miami would receive if Giancarlo’s next contract was split up equally amongst them.
Giancarlo would be able to buy eight 1962-63 Ferrari 250 GTOs (which sold for $38 million dollars in August) with his proposed new contract’s money.
$294 Million: The cost, adjusted for inflation, of Titanic, the second most expensive (when adjusted for inflation) movie production of all time.
812.5 years: How long the President of United States would have to be in office to make that amount of money ($325 million) from the job.
$292,198,327: Total salary earnings (without inflation) of Shaquille O’Neil over his entire NBA career.
10: The number of NHL franchises, according to Forbes, with a value below $325 million dollars.
All of them: The number of MLS teams, according to Forbes, with a value below $325 million dollars. If he were in a soccer sort of mood, Giancarlo could afford to buy both the most and the third most valuable MLS team at the same time with the money he will earn over his next deal.
The original cost to build Fenway Park was $650,000 dollars, which is $15.9 million dollars when adjusted for inflation. That means that Giancarlo Stanton over the span of his hypothetical new contract would be able to build 20 Fenway Parks circa 1912, and he’d have enough money left to do just under half of a 21st.
$25 Million: How much Giancarlo would make in an average year under his new contract.
$10 Million: GDP of the island country of Niue. It would take Niue two and a half years of it’s entire gross domestic product to pay for one year of Giancarlo Stanton.
I don’t think anyone can imagine how big Mike Trout‘s deal will be if this is anything to go on.
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Unfortunately for both Stanton and the Marlins, all that money is unlikely to buy any of the following:
1. An owner who knows the difference between his elbow and his butt;
2. A front office that will do what it takes to ensure long-term success as opposed to once-a-decade;
3. Fans who will support the team consistently enough to give the team the revenue to make #2 happen;
4. Non-hideous uniforms. At least their pre-2012 hats (back when they were still the Florida Marlins) were somewhat cool…better than what they wear now, anyway.
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