Grossly Overpaid Baseball Players

So just a couple of days ago for all Giant's fan Matt Cain was offered a five yea extension on his contract worth 112.5 MILLION dollars. Matt Cain is a strong defensive pitcher for the Giants and has contributed a lot to the team. Don't get me wrong I think a strong player deserves a good salary however the numbers that we are seeing today in order to sign or keep an in-demand player are ridiculously high. Another large number that we just saw was the purchase of the LA Dodgers for 2 billion dollars. That team for sure does not deserve to be purchased for that insane amount of money. Especially considering their poor performance last season. I feel like the millions and billions of dollars that are being poured into not only the teams and players in baseball, but football and basketball are taking away from the respect of the game. In the movie Moneyball an intern for the Oakland A's uses a radical concept of finding statistical value in players that may not be obvious to the human eye to select his team. He pays these players a couple of hundred thousand dollars each, however these players appreciate the chance they are given. They are willing to work for a fraction of what their competing teams players are getting paid and they appreciate the opportunity they are given. They are willing to work hard for the little money that they are earning. I feel like the large amount of money that players are getting paid these days are distracting them from the real reason they are playing. They began playing because they were passionate about the sport! I think that money has caused a lot of corruption in professional sports teams.