NY Yankees—–209,081,579
Detroit—–138,685,197
New York Mets—–138,293,378
Boston—–133,440,037
Chi.White Sox—–121,152,667
LA Angels—–119,216,333
Chi.Cubs—–118,595,833
LA Dodgers—–118,536,038
Seattle—–117,993,982
Atlanta—–102,424,018
St. Louis—–100,624,450
Toronto—–98,641,957
Philadelphia—–98,269,881
Houston—–88,930,415
Milwaukee—–81,004,167
Cleveland—–78,970,067
San Francisco—–76,904,500
Cincinnati—–74,277,695
San Diego—–73,677,617
Colorado—–68,655,500
Texas—–68,239,551
Baltimore—–67,196,248
Arizona—–66,202,713
Minnesota—–62,182,767
Kansas City—–58,245,500
Washington—–54,961,000
Pittsburgh—–49,365,283
Oakland—–47,967,126
Tampa Bay—–43,820,598
Florida—–21,836,500
MLB is broken, everyone should quit watching it until the owners lose money and are forced to fix it aka salary cap.
Hopefully this isn’t the future of the NFL.
agreed.
Arod makes more money per year than the entire Florida Marlins team… thats just sad…
Yeah, the salary cap issue has really made me more and more disinterested in baseball as the gap between the haves and the have-nots has increased.
MLB needs to look at what the salary cap has done for the NFL and NHL.
Each season there are about 5 teams with a legit shot to make the World Series. Nothing more exciting than knowing 80% of the league has absolutely no chance at seriously competing on Opening Day, right?
Am I missing something? Do the Rays have the best record in baseball with the 2nd lowest payroll? Are the Marlins the same team that’s been in contention all year. Also, D-backs, A’s, Twins, Brewers, Phillies and Cardinals are all in contention and well below top 5 payrolls. Pay attention and stop the foolish complaining!!
Jim knows what’s up. Having no salary cap is what makes the MLB so great. There is nothing better than seeing David take on Goliath, and win!
2008 world series shows that you cannot necessarily buy a championship
agreed, but lets face the facts that this offseason the mets, red soxs, and yankees are all going to pick up the big free agents and just make next year impossible to contend. And all the teams listed by Jim will lose all but one or two of their big guns because they cant support enough money to keep them. As i agree with Jim and Evan, I must say a stricter, but not as strict as NFL/NHL, could be used so other teams can make a name for themselves like the Nationals or Royals.
Only the top five teams have a shot? how about 2008? Notice the second lowest salaried team made the AL Championship Series and happened to lose but beat the highly paid Boston Red Sox.
you guys are ridiculous!!! baseball is on the rise. ratings are going through the roof. it is said that baseball might surpass the nfl in the next 10 years, that would b huge.
NO SALARY CAP PLEASE
Salary cap is needed in baseball. Sure let’s look at 2008 and those teams at the bottom made big accomplishments, but for a team to have a salary of $200 million compared to the team at the bottom with $21 million is not right. We like to see teams spend the $200 million and get nothing, but baseball would be much better off if there was a salary cap so talent is not just dispersed to a couple teams. When players are making more in a year than a team combined, there are problems. I can’t get fired up for opening day when my team doesn’t have near the talent to compete throughout the year. Sure players improve as games go by, and who knows, some even become stars. If you take the top half of the money list, more times than not one of those teams will win the World Series.
A big debate among many fans, payroll of teams. Normally a debate among Yankee fans Vs. Opposing teams, it’s sad to see that Detroit was a total loss after spending so much on their players last season. Once again, if the Rays and the Tigers didn’t show it in ’08, spending doesn’t mean anything, talent, managing, and coaching does.
worth doing research for payroll :)