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Auggie

(31,798 posts)
Sun Mar 31, 2013, 12:31 PM Mar 2013

2013 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

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bluedigger

(17,148 posts)
1. Houston!
Sun Mar 31, 2013, 12:44 PM
Mar 2013

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)
4. The three worst teams in British football get sent down...
Sun Mar 31, 2013, 09:35 PM
Mar 2013

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

(21,883 posts)
10. The Twins spent more than 2 (possibly 3) teams headed towards post season.
Fri Sep 27, 2013, 11:08 PM
Sep 2013

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.

Aquavit

(488 posts)
3. Jeez...if the Twins
Sun Mar 31, 2013, 07:11 PM
Mar 2013

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)
5. I live near Rochester, NY..
Sun Apr 14, 2013, 08:26 PM
Apr 2013

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. :&gt )

demosincebirth

(12,740 posts)
6. Ha, Oakland, 1 1/2 games out of first with only 68 milliion payroll. Angels, 10 1/2 games out with
Wed Jun 5, 2013, 10:27 PM
Jun 2013

216mil payroll.

Pitching always beats good hitting. I love Baseball!

theHandpuppet

(19,964 posts)
7. Some of these payrolls are obscene
Sun Aug 11, 2013, 08:07 AM
Aug 2013

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?

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