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The MLB will generate close to $100 Billion dollars over the next 11 years with teams investing more than $1 Billion dollars during the 2022 Winter meetings. Some of the highest contracts seen were even for MLB standards. These GMs channeled their inner George Steinbrenner.  $/length/player (team) ⚾️ $360M/9 Aaron Judge (NYY) ⚾️ $300M/11 Trea Turner (PHI) ⚾️ $275M/11 Xander Bogaerts (SD) ⚾️ $90M/5 Masataka Yoshida (BOS) ⚾️ $87.5M/5 Willson Contreras (STL) ⚾️ $86.6M/2 Justin Verlander (NYM) ⚾️ $32M/2 Kenley Janses (BOS) ⚾️ $26M/2 José Quintana (NYM)  This year MLB Winter Meetings were one of the most expensive for teams, lucrative for players, and talked about by sports media.  I’m doing a video newsletter. Yeah, it’s where I talk sports as a 1 man show (currently) and would love to see you subscribe http://matterofsports.newsletter.com job is to know how to spend and/or save money in the right places that create opportunities to make money. To understand the best way to provide thoughts and ideas in leaderships meetings, sales meetings, and even ops meetings and discussions to best suit the long  This money spent by MLB teams in the past 4 days was not a quick decision and was likely an allocation created at the end of the regular seasons. Not only did these GM’s have plans but those plans had contingencies, and those contingencies had contigencies with contingencies.  So let me ask you, what type of investment are you making or helping decide to make in your career right now? How far into the future are you looking in your decision-making?  #mlb #sportsfinance #sportsbusiness