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AP NewsBreak: Yankees finish with record $207 million payroll
By RONALD BLUM, AP Baseball Writer
January 6, 2006 NEW YORK (AP) -- The New York Yankees finished last year with a record $207.2 million payroll, more than $90 million ahead of any other team, according to final figures compiled Friday by the commissioner's office.
Boston was second at $116.7 million, with the New York Mets third at $104 million, followed by the Los Angeles Angels ($97 million), Philadelphia ($94.8 million), the Los Angeles Dodgers ($87.8 million), St. Louis ($87.4 million) and Atlanta ($85.9 million).
The Chicago White Sox, who won the World Series for the first time since 1917, were 13th at $73.2 million. Houston, swept by the White Sox in the Astros' first Series appearance, was 12th at $76.2 million.
San Diego had the lowest payroll among the eight teams that made the postseason, 16th at $66.3 million. The Padres were swept in the first round of the playoffs by the Cardinals.
At the other end, Tampa Bay had the lowest payroll at $26.6 million, with Pittsburgh at $30.1 million, Colorado at $32.5 million and Kansas City at $34.9 million.
Payrolls were based on Aug. 31 active rosters and disabled lists and included prorated shares of signing bonuses. In 2004, the Yankees led the majors with a then-record high of $187.9 million.
The average salary was $2,349,394, a 5.5 percent increase from the 2004 average of $2,227,347. The players' association, in figures released last month, calculated the average at $2,479,125, a rise of 7.2 percent. The union and management differ in their treatment of signing bonuses and option buyouts.
AL MVP Alex Rodriguez was the highest-paid player at $21.8 million, which doesn't include $4 million in money paid by Texas, which was converted to an "assignment bonus" under the 2004 restructuring of his $252 million, 10-year contract. The changes were made as part of his trade from the Rangers to the Yankees.
San Francisco's Barry Bonds, on the disabled list from the start of the season until Sept. 12 following knee surgery, was second at $21.3 million, followed by Boston's Manny Ramirez ($19.9 million), the Yankees' Derek Jeter ($19.6 million) and Mike Mussina ($19 million), Baltimore's Sammy Sosa ($18.9 million) and Houston's Roger Clemens ($18 million), who at 43 led the major leagues with a career-best 1.87 ERA.
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Baseball needs a salary cap.
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Just remember, they don't have an unfair advantage over the teams with small markets.
Financially speaking, the Yanks are at a disadvantage, since they pay all those other teams millions in luxury tax.
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Just remember, they don't have an unfair advantage over the teams with small markets.
Financially speaking, the Yanks are at a disadvantage, since they pay all those other teams millions in luxury tax.
Exactly......fans are just jealous that the Yanks don't have a greedy cheap bastard owner. I just took a big shit.
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Just remember, they don't have an unfair advantage over the teams with small markets.
Financially speaking, the Yanks are at a disadvantage, since they pay all those other teams millions in luxury tax.
and its the other teams that won the past few years...
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Why is anyone shocked by this? Don't we always spend the most?
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So the Bankees don't have an advantage by spending the same amount of money on three players, that others teams use as their entire payroll?
OOOOOOOOOOKAY...
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hmm... great point... i'm not so sure. lets ask the white sox!
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They did spend more than most. Cut their payroll in half
(Royals, D Rays) and I don't think they'd be quite as good.
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the white sox had 33% of the yankees payroll, and were still able to top them.
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Once in the last 80 years...(or ten years, if you don't want to play along...)
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true.
but the white sox, the marlins, the diamondbacks, the angels... they've all had big wins in the past 5.
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200 Million buys ya...A trouncing by the Angels in the playoffs!
Well worth the investment!
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200 million may not buy the championship, but it does buy an unfair advantage from the get go. salary cap is needed. when one player is making almost as much as an entire team, even the lowest payroll of the league, somthing ain't right.
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200 Million buys ya...A trouncing by the Angels in the playoffs!
Well worth the investment!
heh.
but... money... isn't the r0x0rz??
every year the yankees win, the whine is "they bought the victory" and every year the yankees lose, the whine is "looks like your precious money didn't help." seems very convenient to have both sides of your ass covered in an argument. either the 'bankees' are wasting money or they're exploiting it -- arguing both is retarded.
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200 million may not buy the championship, but it does buy an unfair advantage from the get go.
i do think that money gives opportunities. thus, more money teams, like the yankees, have more opportunities, like looking at 4 players at once. thats a given. but i do not feel opportunities are necessarily equal to advantages.
for example, as rufie pointed out above, and joseph madre in another thread, the 2005 yankees dropped 200 million on ... bad opportunities. so thats not spending 200 million on an easy advantage, thats losing 200 million on a losing season.
and it doesn't really matter how rich you are, if you're losing 200 million a year, no one should be calling that an advantage.
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salary cap is needed.
where do they work?
in the salary-cap-enhanced NBA, for example, you have teams that are annually invincible and teams that are annually awful. in the NFL, if big cities want to break the cap, they do. you just pay a fine... which the richer teams would be able to afford, anyway.
the current MLB "cap" is weird, but its not like its ineffective. if you break the cap, you spend extra money funding teams well below, which is a pretty sensical move.
the big difference between the sports, and why baseball always looks so glaringly awful, is the salary explosion over the past few years. there are many players making 10 million+, with the average player salary quickly approaching 3 million. just a bit over ten years ago, that was damn close to the top -- i think in 93/94, mattingly was the highest paid player in baseball for a bit, at 5 mil.
"minimum wage" is damn near half a million. that means the player on your team who you only see on the field once in 162 games is making 10-20 times the average salary of any fan in attendance.
so, to me, its much more a player/union issue than a team one.
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the salary cap does work in the nbs. that is where good/bad gms and good/bad ownders come into play. look at the clippers. they habitually suck due to an owner running the clips for a profit, not a championship. look at the spurs. cap managment done well, keeping all people happy. a good couch. it is an organization run well from top to bottom. same for most of the better teams. for one reason or an other they made wise decisions and planned ahead and somehow managed to fit kep playes into key spots on the court and on the payroll.
and in the nfl people constantly bitch about parity, granted the patriots somewhat put a stop to it, but still. the point it good teams can't keep everyone...they have to pick the best and not bogart all the best players with huge contracts. they want to go after an awesome free agent, they are gonna lose someone.
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