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Because baseball offers no monthly jobs report, we at 10 Degrees thought it a public service to do just that. The state of baseball’s economy is good. So say Albert Pujols and Prince Fielder. How good? If the sale price of the Los Angeles Dodgers reaches $1.8 billion – a realistic notion – it will make Frank McCourt, one of the worst owners in baseball history, a billionaire.

Not everyone is flush, of course. There are struggles, even in baseball. Employment is fickle. There is ageism. A supply-and-demand imbalance. One guy just wants to stay near his family in the South, but the only job is in the Northeast. He’s learning quickly: This is America; gotta move where the jobs are.

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