How Does It Work in Baseball?

The way this works in baseball is that for the first six years of your career as a pro as a major league player your contract is first basically nearly minimum for three years and then slowly steps up. Within this system you can understand why there would also be strong norms that players just happily make 13 million a year when maybe they were worth 24. That's not how it works in Europe yeah so the one exception in american sports is is NFL where there's this firm difference between quote-unquote guaranteed money to NFL contracts and non-guaranteed money which the team can basically just cut you and not have to pay.