Financials are clear: Kyler Murray is right to choose baseball

Kyler Murray is likely looking at five million reasons to choose a future in baseball over football. Besides the difference in the injury risks of playing centerfield compared to quarterback, it just makes more financial sense to make it in the MLB instead of the NFL.The base salaries of professional baseball contracts are guaranteed while the vast majority of football contracts are not. In Murray’s case, it looks like he’s going to have his cake and eat it too. He will still lead national championship contender Oklahoma this fall before shifting his focus to the diamond full time in the spring. But let’s look at exactly why that’s the best move for him.“[W]e just felt like Kyler was a unique talent, and it’s something that you come across rarely in what we do. The risk of the football was, in our opinion, outweighed by the upside on the baseball field,” said Oakland A’s scouting director Eric Kubota, per MLB.com’s Jane Lee. That the team is willing to draft such a risk with the 9th overall pick shows how muc

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