Are baseball players overpaid?

You make the call. Choose one of the 20 Major League Baseball players from Bankrate.com's list of the highest-paid baseball players, and see how ordinary purchases affect their bank accounts compared to an average $30,000-a-year consumer.

Source: Cot's Baseball Contracts Excludes signing bonuses, incentives, endorsements, appearance fees, perks, per diem, etc.

Select a player: Alex Rodriguez Jason Giambi Derek Jeter Manny Ramirez Todd Helton Andy Pettitte Barry Bonds Bobby Abreu Chipper Jones Albert Pujols Lance Berkman Carlos Delgado Mike Hampton Bartolo Colon J.D. Drew Pedro Martinez Richie Sexson Jim Thome Vladimir Guerrero Andruw Jones Income: $27,000,000 a year Product At this price* Seems to cost: House $275,000.00 $305.56 Car $20,000.00 $22.22 Laptop $2,000.00 $2.22 Stereo system $300.00 $0.33 Hotel room $100.00 $0.11 Good meal $40.00 $0.04 Average meal $10.00 $0.01 Big Mac $2.00 $0.00 Slurpee $1.00 $0.00 * Relative price of products

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-- Posted: April 24, 2007