Inflation is crazy, I agree. The nature of baseball and its limited supply and high demand is that salaries can really only hold steady (like they did for a few years around 2004-2005), they wont go down. In 6 years someone like Jenkins, if they were free agents could expect to get 10 million a year, and Jeff Suppan would be worth more like 16 million. Look what a crappy year from Andruw Jones got him, almost 19 million a year. Crappy players like Juan Pierre are gettin 10-11 million already. everything is only going to go up. Ticket Prices, concessions, TV deals, licensing deals, cost of MLB Extra innings, player salaries. In a few years, Gallardo will be a free agent, he'll say if Barry Zito is worth 18 million a year, Im worth 25...that is the economics of baseball.