WASHINGTON (April 3, 2025)- Major League Baseball enjoyed its 2025 opening day last week, and with it, a new record for the league’s average salaries. An Associated Press study found that the average salary for MLB is $5 million for the first time.
For more context on the matter, please consider Lisa Delpy Neirotti, the director of the MS in Sport Management Program and an associate professor of sport management, has been a professor of sport, event, and tourism management at GW for more than 30 years. Delpy Neirotti works with a number of sport event organizations, sponsors, and professional teams to conduct economic and market research studies including the Olympic Games, World Cup, Citi Bank Tennis Tournament, College Football Bowl Games, among others. Neirotti has worked 22 consecutive Olympics as a consultant, volunteer or researcher, in addition to 5 World Cups, and hundreds of other major sport events since 1984.
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