AAA Minimum Minor League Baseball salary 2012

How much do minor league baseball players earn in salary for 2012? AAA baseball players are just one step away from playing in the Major Leagues. Major League Baseball (MLB) is the highest level of professional baseball. Only the most talented and luckiest of ball players make it to the MLB. Their salaries are enormous. AAA players are in a league one step below the MLB and they are hoping for their big chance to play big league ball.


The mistake a lot of people make is to presume that since AAA players (or AA or single A for that matter) are so close to the big time that they must be making a lot of money. After all, if MLB players earn millions of dollars yearly on average you’d think AAA players make a few hundred grand a year, right?


Actually, they make a lot less than that. Players at the AAA level earn a minimum of $2150 per month in 2012 presuming it is not their first year in the league. If it is their first year in the league, the number is much less.

I linked a really interesting article below on minor league baseball salaries as well as other facts about the minors. Check it out.
http://www.journalgazette.net/article/20120311/EDIT05/303119969/1021/EDIT


The major league players have a much higher minimum salary of course. Much, much higher.  If you want to know what the Major League minimum salary for 2012 is the please click here to find out.

2012 Minimum Salary MLB Baseball Players Earn

No matter how much money you make, no matter how lucrative the job title you hold, there are always people at the top of the pay scale and people at the bottom. Sometimes the bottom is not so bad though. Take professional baseball for example. Pro baseball players in the major’s make a ton of money. Even the guys who earn the MLB minimum salary earn a lot of money.


Major League Baseball players who are at the bottom of salary scale got a really nice raise in their paychecks starting in 2012. The collective bargaining agreement between Major League Baseball and the players association was agreed upon in December 2011 and it provided a substantial increase in salary for the guys who make the minimum amount of money.

Players on the Major League level who are the league minimum now make roughly $480,000 per year (up from $414,000 last baseball contract). I have to admit, even the minimum salary in baseball is a really sweet paycheck.


What do you think? Do ball players earn too much money or too little?

No all pro baseball players earn the big bucks. Some make a regular, working wage. The guys who really work for their checks are minor league baseball players. Some players also receive considerable signing bonuses when they are drafted by a MLB team, though such bonuses only represent a small amount of players drafted. The vast majority of these make very little money. I did a post on this as well

Minimum Salary Minor Leaguers (MiLB) Earn

I also linked an article below where I site my salary source. Check it out.

http://www.nhregister.com/articles/2011/11/19/sports/doc4ec86002809e6430704062.txt

If you are interested in other baseball statistics besides how much money players make, I wrote a couple posts on how hitting statistics correlate to each fielding position.  In other words, on average, do catchers hit better than shortstops (click here to find out) ?  Do 1st basemen have better slugging percentages than designated hitters (click here to find out)?  Do 2nd basemen have higher on base percentage than left fielders (the answer is here :-) ?

Take Excel off Page Break Preview to View Normal Spreadsheet

I first became familiar with the page break preview when I discovered that the entire contents of my Excel spreadsheet / worksheet were not printing out.  I remember trying a couple different options in the ‘Print Preview’ screen but nothing seemed to work. Then I found the solution in the “Page Break Preview” within the view tab on Excel.

When I clicked on “Page Break Preview” the Excel spreadsheet becomes smaller.  Smaller is good because it allows you to see the data you entered and gives you more visibility when adjusting the page break lines.

The Problem

I’m not the smartest guy in the room so one problem I ran into was getting the spreadsheet / worksheet back to the full, standard size.  I was able to adjust the line breaks no problem but then ran into the issue of getting my spreadsheet back to the size I wanted.  I felt a bit like a klutz.

Don’t worry though, if you are unable to get your spreadsheet back to the normal view, I won’t tell anyone   I’ll show you how to fix this no problem.

This solution works best on Microsoft Excel 2007 but other versions may apply too (just maybe the commands won’t be in the exact locations I describe below)

Slugging Average Percentage Ranked By MLB Position Played

Slugging average (aka slugging percentage) is a statistical measure of how much of a power hitter a batter has.  Slugging average (percentage) measures how many bases a certain baseball player manages to get for every at bat over the course of a season. A player that hits only singles will have lower slugging statistics as someone with the same batting average who also gets doubles, triples and home runs.

For example, Matt Kemp, a respected Dodgers power hitter in 2011 has managed a .497 (or thereabout) over the past seven years. A very a good slugging stat. A typical slugging percentage for a Major League Baseball player is around .420 or .430.  Get in the .490 range and you are really whacking that baseball.

Just for the controversial fun of it. Let's look at Barry Bonds. Bonds was notorious for attitude and performance enhancing drugs but he did slam that ball.  Barry Bonds slugging percentage was somewhere around .607, which is a totally ridiculous number steriods or not.

If you want to learn exactly how individual players slugging averages are calculated, click here for the post I wrote on how to do determine slugging average.

Which positions in MLB baseball have the highest slugging average? Do MLB first basemen have higher slugging numbers than shortstops? Which postions tend to hit the far the farthest and get the most bases out of it?

I ranked from best to worst the average slugging percentage for every position in Major League Baseball.  I found it impossible to find this statistic broken down and ranked by fielding position so I did my own calculations to produce this ranking.  Basically, I took individual batting statistics (approximatly400 at-bats and up) from ESPN's site and sorted all those players by position. Then I added slugging percentage stats together and did the division to get an average slugging percentage by position.  Then I entered into an Excel sheet and ranked from best position (on average) to worst.  

If you want to see the raw ESPN stats that I began with and manipulated to calculate my own slugging rankings click here.

Here are the rankings. These include both NL and AL stats combined. I omitted the pitchers due to lack of at bats and we all know they'd rank last anyway:

1st Base (1b) - .476

Right Field (RF) - .467

3rd Base (3b) - .457

Left Field (LF) - .443

Catcher (C) - .442

Designated Hitter (DH) - .438

Center Fielder (CF) - .431

2nd Base (2b) - .425

Shortstop (SS) - .404

Absolutely no surprise that 1st base ranked #1 in slugging percentage.  1st basemen are your classic big guys that hit the long ball. They are noted more for power than fielding ability. 

Right Field at first surprised me but when I thought about it, these are strong guys too. Right Fielders are noted for arm strength (throwing the ball long distances). Perhaps this translates to power at the plate as well?

Shortstop finishes up last. No surprises here either. One of the most important defensive fielding positions in baseball, Shortstops are often hired more for their fielding ability than for hitting.

Designated Hitter shocked me. You'd thing they are out there tearing up the ball but according to these numbers, they are not. Surprisingly, the DH  mediocre on all other batting stats as well.

What do you think of these numbers?

I also wrote an article where I rank the On Base Percentage by position played. Click Here to check out that article to see which fielding spots generate the highest and lowest OBP.

Average Salary of Each Position In Baseball

If you want to learn how different baseball positions vary in salary earned on average, I wrote a detailed article.  I rank each position based on average money earned during a season. Different positions definitely earn a lot more than others.  Some shockingly higher and lower by comparison.  Click Here to Read This Post

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Average On Base Percentage OPB by MLB Position

If you read the book Moneyball you know the high value that sabremetricians (advocates of Sabremetrics) place on the on base percentage (OBP) statistic . A lot of traditional baseball statistic lovers respect OPB as well.  One big reason for this is that OBP, unlike batting average, gives batters credit for walks.  The argument being that batters are just as responsible for generating walks, with a good eye and patience as pitchers are at avoiding walks.  A player that gets on base should be given credit for a walk.

For a Bit More on On Base Percentage and How to Calculate Click Here

This post will show you the average on base percentage ranked by position in Major League Baseball. For the life of me I could not find average batting statistics by position on-line so I thought I would generate my own from some available numbers. I basically generated the stats by taking the most active 2011 players individual statistic (I thanks ESPN, stats linked here, for those raw, individual stats) and entered them all into an excel sheet by position. Then I broke out the OPB numbers for each player by position, added them together and created an average. Then I ranked the positions from highest on base percentage to lowest. I omitted the pitcher.

Here is how they came out:

How to Strikethrough – Cross Out Text on Lotus Notes Email

Strikethough or strikeout is a line that runs though visible text. When text is stuck out it means that you still want the text to be seen but the crossed out information is no longer necessary or correct. For example, “Not For Sale” can be written as “Not For Sale” meaning at one time the item was not for sale but it now is. The word “Not” is struckout.

You can strikeout / strikethrough text on just about any software that involves the transfer of text. Word documents, PDF’s, and emails for example can all include words and numbers with a strikethrough line running through it.

This post will look at how to cross out text on Lotus Notes email.

Crop PDF Using Adobe Acrobat Pro X - Show Only Part of Page

Cropping a PDF is great when you only want to save a portion of the PDF page.  Say you just want to keep a section of text or an image on a PDF and wanted to eliminate the rest of the document surrounding that text or image you would crop this document


If you want to crop a PDF using Adobe Acrobat Pro X so that only the part of the page you want appears, you have come to the right place. Just follow the steps below. If you don't yet know how to scan a PDF, check out this post first, otherwise keep reading....


Follow these steps.