Chicago Cubs Javier Báez Annual Salary

In the graph pictured to the left, we are shown Chicago Cubs shortstop player Javier Báez’s annual salary between the years of 2016 through 2021. Báez began his professional baseball career with the Chicago Cubs in 2014, but did not receive much of a large salary, until after winning the Major Leagues Baseball World Series Games in 2016 against the Cleveland Indians. This was a very important accomplishment for both Báez and the Cubs since it has been over 100 years since the Cubs had a championship, and Báez’s first year to prove his worthiness and important role on the team. According to the bar chart, Báez started with an annual salary of 521K dollars during the year of 2016. His salary stood under the range of 700K dollars up until 2019. In 2019, Báez’s salary skyrocketed to over 4.3M dollars more than what it was the previous year. Standing at a total of 5M dollars in 2019 alone. This could be due to the fact that, 2019 was the first year Báez was considered an arbitration eligible player. This is when professional baseball players who have three or more years of Major League service, but less than six years of Major League service, become eligible for salary arbitration if they do not already have a contract for the next season. After the year of 2019, Báez’s salary continues to double to 10 million in 2020. Finally, he is projected to make over 12M dollars in 2021 if he continues to work hard and receive good stats throughout the season. Although Báez does make less than his co-players such as Jon Lester who averages around 25M dollars per year or his other co-players like Anthony Rizzo & Kris Bryant, it is expected for Báez’s salary to continue to grow with his success. We can also look at this data and ask questions such as: how does each team member salaries compare or contrast ? How do the players salaries, contrast of the coaches? And finally, how does professional baseball players salaries, compare to other professional sports teams?