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The average major league salary dropped this year for the first time since 2004 and for only the fourth time since record-keeping started 50 years ago http://www.brewersfanproshop.com/authentic-hernan-perez-jersey , according to the players’ association.The union said Friday its final average was $4,095,686, down $1,436 from $4,097,122 last year.Since the union started keeping track in 1967 Domingo Santana Jersey , the only previous declines had been by $66 in 1987, when owners were found to have conspired to hold down salaries among free agents; a 4 percent decline in 1995 following a 7½-month strike that wiped out the World Series for the first time since 1904; and by 2.5 percent in 2004.This year’s survey was based on the 968 players on major league rosters and disabled lists on Aug. 31, the last day before the active player limit expanded from 25 to 40.Major League Baseball calculated this year’s average at $4,007,985, a 0.77 percent increase from a revised figure of $3,977 Eric Sogard Jersey ,446 for 2017. The union includes a pro-rated share of option buyouts that may be earned if the option is declined, while MLB does not take those into account in its average.After years of strong growth, salaries have stagnated over the last three years. The union’s average this year is up just 3.6 percent from $3,952,252 in 2015. The increase from 2012 to 2015 was 23 percent.An unusually slow free-agent market last offseason contributed to this year’s drop. Among the 166 players who exercised the right to become free agents after the World Series, exactly half of the 140 agreements reached were completed after the start of spring training workouts Feb. 14. Many of those deals involving veterans were for depressed prices.Two years ago, the union calculated the average at $3 Keon Broxton Jersey ,966,020, a 0.35 percent rise from the previous year’s $3,952,252 that was the lowest rate of increase since a 2.5 percent drop in 2004. MLB pegged that year’s average at $3,825,967 http://www.brewersfanproshop.com/authentic-zach-davies-jersey , down from $3,835,498 in 2015. BRISBANE, Australia (AP) — Netherlands international pitcher Loek van Mil is in a Canberra hospital with serious head injuries while hiking over the weekend on the outskirts of the Australian capital.The Courier-Mail newspaper on Tuesday quoted Brisbane Bandits chief executive Mark Ready as saying Van Mil was in a critical but stable condition.He was found by a hiker after hitting his head on rocks and sustaining multiple fractures and bleeding on the brain.“He lay unconscious for 24 hours in bushland until he was found by a hiker,” Ready was quoted as saying. “But he has gone from gravely injured to critical but stable. He’s talking and managed a smile and a joke today.”The 34-year-old Van Mil, a 7-foot-1 (2.16-meter) closer, was credited with the save for the Bandits against the Canberra Cavalry in his last game on Thursday. He was in Canberra for a four-game series in the Australian Baseball League and was not with the team when he was injured.He has had minor league contracts with Major League Baseball teams Brent Suter Jersey , and joined the Bandits this season after playing for Adelaide in the previous three ABL seasons.