i don't really care about how much the hitting coach is paid. he's getting $850k a year; how much does the average major league hitting coach get, maybe $500k? that's $350k in difference. even under great management, any baseball team is going to waste way more money than that on bad free agent signings and draft busts. front office and coach salaries are a drop in the bucket compared to major league payroll. case in point - the guy who will be setting the philosophy for the entire organization for the next several years will be earning basically the same annual salary that john grabow, a mediocre middle reliever, earned the past two years.