Ethical Issues In Baseball

From the beginning of the movie we can tell that the Oakland Athletics have many symptoms. Right away we can see that in 2001 Oakland lost the ALCS and immediately after the team switches gears into how they are losing their three big players. Both of these are symptoms. Another one is the fact that they do not have the funds to get these contracts back. When Billy goes to the owner about this he tells him he has no more money for him. Next we have the fact that the scouts and managers do not follow the new strategy that Billy is trying to bring in. Later in the movie we see the whole baseball world criticizing what they are trying to do, no one seems to believe in what they are doing besides Billy and Peter.
Problem and Cause
The problems that cause the above symptoms are the fact that he changes to Bill James logic of sabermetrics. The idea that he choose a strategy to base his whole team off of that
“A number of signs indicate a growing interest in ethical issues throughout business…” (Schlegelmilch, 1990, p. 1). Ethics is what holds people from doing things that are wrong but are still legal. There is a large grey area between law and what is right, ethics is what helps us stay out of that grey area. Just like in business there is ethics in baseball. One of the largest ethical issues in baseball is the amount of money that is paid to players every year. The top played player in the 2015 season was Clayton Kershaw he got paid $32,571,428 last year, which includes his signing bonus but does not include any endorsement deals. This is a huge ethical problem, why are we paying people this much to play a child’s game? This money could help thousands of people who are struggling to live day to day. But instead we are giving it to an egotistical baseball players. I enjoy watching baseball just as much as the next guy but is it real necessary to be paying players this