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Related: About this forum2013 MLB Payrolls
As it does every year, the Associated Press has compiled the salaries of every player on every 25-man active roster. Since this information isn't public, it requires a little estimation, but these figures are the absolute best you're going to get. Figures are adjusted payroll, which takes into account cash received in trades, prorated signing bonuses, and other tweaks.
As has happened in years' past, Alex Rodriguez will be paid more ($29 million) than one entire team. This year it's the Astros.
Next season the Dodgers are expected to surpass the Yankees.
Sources: http://deadspin.com/2013-payrolls-and-salaries-for-every-mlb-team-462765594 and http://www.cbssports.com/mlb/story/21965743/baseball-payrolls-preliminary-list
New York Yankees $228,995,945
Los Angeles Dodgers $216,302,909
Philadelphia $159,578,214
Boston $158,967,286
Detroit $149,046,844
San Francisco $142,180,333
Los Angeles Angels $142,165,250
Texas $127,197,575
Chicago White Sox $124,065,277
Toronto $118,244,039
St. Louis $116,702,085
Washington $112,431,770
Cincinnati $110,565,728
Chicago Cubs $104,150,726
Baltimore $91,793,333
Milwaukee $91,003,366
Arizona $90,158,500
Atlanta $89,288,193
New York Mets $88,877,033
Seattle $84,295,952
Cleveland $82,517,300
Kansas City $80,491,725
Minnesota $75,562,500
Colorado $75,449,071
San Diego $71,689,900
Oakland $68,577,000
Pittsburgh $66,289,524
Tampa Bay $57,030,272
Miami $39,621,900
Houston $24,328,538
bluedigger
(17,148 posts)How the heck do they get away with averaging less than a million $ per player?
One thing I like about English soccer (I think) is how the worst team gets sent down to the next level and the best team from the second tier is raised up. Baseball should do that.
Aquavit
(488 posts)Meanwhile, the three best teams in the second (and third, and fourth) divisions every year get called up to the next level.
MLB (and other American sports as well, IMO) would be very smart to institute a relegation/promotion system. The Twins, Astros, and Marlins frankly don't deserve to share the revenue of the teams who actually WANT to provide a competitive team for their fanbase.
Gore1FL
(21,902 posts)Specifically, Pittsburgh (NL Wild Card), Oakland (AL West Champions), Tampa Bay (Possible Wild Card).
If they were to do something as you suggest here, I'm afraid the team promotion and demotion criteria would be based more on TV revenues than W-L.
Inkfreak
(1,695 posts)I still love the Yanks tho.
Aquavit
(488 posts)Took Joe Mauer's $23 million, Justin Morneau's $14 million, and Josh Willingham's $7 million, and Nick Blackburn's $5 million out of the payroll (Morneau and Willingham are somewhere between likely and certainly out of the 2014 payroll picture, and I'd argue Mauer should be too), they would outspend the Astros by just $2.2. For a team that yapped on as much as they did that the $500M taxpayer contribution to their sterile new stadium would help them become more competitive in free agency, that is just appalling.
God, just thinking about that makes me, as a Twins fan, want to advocate for a FIFA-style re-alignment that much more. The Twins are not a top-flight organization and should really be competing with the likes of the Iowa Cubs or Beloit Snappers rather than the Milwaukee Brewers or Chicago White Sox...
pangaia
(24,324 posts)Twins Triple-A Redwings--(Did I say Triple-A?).. they lose all the time also...
Hell, the Twins could barely beat the Batavia Muckdogs.. MY TEAM! NY/Penn. :> )
demosincebirth
(12,740 posts)216mil payroll.
Pitching always beats good hitting. I love Baseball!
theHandpuppet
(19,964 posts)So the NYY are talking about docking A-Rod (aka A-Hole) a day's pay for taking a game off to seek a second medical opinion. That's $150,000... for ONE STINKING GAME of perhaps 3 hours.
I love sports as much as the next person but the monies paid not only to players but owners is obscene. Yet it seems to be one topic on DU that's taboo. Anyone care to play ball?
Auggie
(31,804 posts)theHandpuppet
(19,964 posts)But I doubt it.