You're getting some stuff jumbled up here. CEO's are not necessarily owners. Sam Kennedy is the CEO of the Red Sox. I don't think his salary as CEO is higher than Rafael Devers's salary. Kennedy does have an ownership stake now, but that happened after he became CEO.
So yeah, factory workers don't get paid more than the CEO, but some baseball players certainly do, so it's not a great analogy.
To the larger point, the relationship among owners, players and fans is an interdependent one. They all need each other. The money flows from the fans to the owners to the players. If fans are disenchanted with the team's performance and think owners are profiteering at the expense of the team, the best case scenario is they're going to gripe about it, the worst is they're going to lose interest.
Here at Talksox we tend to just stick with the griping...