Last Place in Salary is First Place in MLB

April 13, 2009

marlins Thats right, the Florida Marlins are tied with the Atlanta Braves for first place not only in the Eastern Division of the National League, but all of Major League Baseball through the first two weeks. They have scored 37 runs in their first 6 games which to me considering last year they were only 3-3 through the first 6 games only scoring 21 runs. November 11th, 2008 is a day that the Florida Marlins will not forget for a while. Its the day the Washington Nationals traded Emilio Jose Bonifacio (a pitcher from the minor leagues) to the Florida Marlins. So far through the first 6 games he is batting .500 has a home run and 5 RBI’s. Believe it or not that Fantasy baseball league has adopted this guy because over 80 percent of them own him on their baseball team. So whats so great and amazing about Florida being on top of the world right now? The fact that they pay their players the least amongst all MLB teams. Their team salary right now is $22,650,000 whereas the New York Yankees pay their players the most with a team salary of $207,108,489. So where is this near quarter billion dollar team at in the standings? They started out 0-2 but have now jumped to 3-3 tied with the Rays for 3rd place in the American League East Division. This is not surprising for me as the Yankees spent the bank in the off season picking up players left and right and paying them whatever they asked for. If you have the money, great, but why don’t you go spend it on some of the local business that seem to be failing in New York? All in all I expect big things for the Marlins and look for them in the wild card position by the end of the season. I doubt the Yankees will even make the playoffs. You have heard it here on SidelineBlog.com, the Yankees will not make the playoffs.

Here is a list of all the team salaries as of right now. If you take a look at their records vs. how much they pay their players, I think that you will find it pretty funny how it ends up working out in the end. This table only represents how much the teams pay their players, not their staff or anyone else.

Team	Payroll (US$)
1. NY Yankees	207,108,489
2. NY Mets	137,391,376
3. Detroit	137,290,196
4. Boston	133,220,112
5. Chicago Sox	121,189,332
6. LA Angels	118,825,333
7. LA Dodgers	118,188,536
8. Chicago Cubs	117,954,333
9. Seattle	116,876,482
10. Atlanta	102,849,666
11. St. Louis	99,624,449
12. Toronto	97,001,500
13. Philadelphia	95,479,880
14. Houston	88,930,414
15. Cleveland	78,970,066
16. San Francisco	76,194,000
17. Milwaukee	74,687,499
18. Cincinnati	74,117,695
19. San Diego	72,626,616
20. Colorado	68,655,500
21. Baltimore	66,806,249
22. Texas	66,312,326
23. Arizona	66,202,712
24. Kansas City	57,855,500
25. Minnesota	56,932,766
26. Washington	54,166,000
27. Pittsburgh	48,689,783
28. Oakland	47,167,126
29. Tampa Bay	43,422,997
30. Florida	22,650,000