Rollie Fingers Net Worth 2018: What is this baseball player worth?
Rollie Fingers is a pro baseball player who plays Pitcher. Fingers was born on August 25, 1946, in Steubenville, Ohio. This page will take a closer look at Rollie Fingers’s net worth.
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Rollie Fingers Career, Earnings
Fingers bats Right and throws Right. Fingers debuted in the MLB on September 15, 1968 for the Oakland Athletics. In all, Fingers played for the Oakland Athletics, San Diego Padres, and Milwaukee Brewers. Fingers’s career ended with the Milwaukee Brewers in 1985.
Some of Fingers’s most prominent statistics in the MLB included a Win-loss record (pitching) stat of 114-118, a Earned run average stat of 2.90, and a Strikeouts stat of 1,299. Some of the highlights of Rollie Fingers’s career include: 7× Major League Baseball All-Star Game, 3× World Series champion, Major League Baseball Most Valuable Player Award, Cy Young Award, World Series Most Valuable Player Award, 4× Rolaids Relief Man Award, 3× List of Major League Baseball annual saves leaders, Jersey number retired, and Jersey number retired.
Rollie Fingers was inducted into the National Hall of Fame during the 1992 induction period with a vote of 81.16% (second ballot).
Rollie Fingers Net Worth 2018
Player earnings can range widely. In the MLB, the median pay is approximately $3 million per year. Top baseball players can receive $25 million or more per annum, and lower rated players make $1 million or less.
Rollie Fingers net worth: soccer/football salary distribution
Outside the MLB, most contracts pay less than $10,000 a year. Interesting datapoints from Wikipedia about the contracts signed by Rollie Fingers include:
- “The Los Angeles Dodgers offered Fingers a signing bonus of $20,000, but because they had a solid pitching staff, that included Sandy Koufax and Don Drysdale, were already winning pennants, and their farm system appeared to be full of talented players, he felt he had no chance to reach the major leagues for years.”
- “He turned them down and signed for less money, a $13,000 signing bonus, with the Kansas City Athletics, on Christmas Eve 1964.”
- “Athletics’ owner Charlie Finley, believing he would not be able to afford to re-sign his key players, attempted to sell Fingers and Joe Rudi to the Boston Red Sox for $1 million each and Vida Blue to the New York Yankees for $1.5 million in June.”
So what is baseball player Rollie Fingers’s net worth in 2018? Our estimate for Rollie Fingers’s net worth as of 2018 is: $1.9 million
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