Posted by The Foo in Sport

Total team salaries:

Cleveland Indians = approx. $61 Million
NY Yankees = approx. $195 Million
Boston Red Sox = approx. $143 Million

The combined cost of paying NYY’s Derek Jeter and Alex Rodriguez for one year could pay for the WHOLE team of Florida, Washington, Pittsburgh or Tampa Bay.

The combined salary of NYY’s Derek Jeter, Alex Rodriguez and Jason Giambi is $10 million more than the cost to pay all 22 players of the current Cleveland Indians team.

It just shows that money may buy you glitz and glamor but doesn’t necessarily make you are good team. Someone once told me that there is no ‘I’ in the word ‘Team’. Isn’t that the truth!

Espn’s salary breakdown for the various teams:

NY Yankees
Boston
Cleveland

2 Responses to “Ridiculous baseball salary stats”

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   MC said: @ 2:11 pm
   October 18th, 2007 

   
   

   There may be no I in team but there is an “M” and an “E”.

   But yes, some of those figures are indeed ridiculous.

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   The Foo said: @ 9:03 pm
   October 18th, 2007 

   
   

   @MC
   yes that’s a complete opposite way to look at things. the amount sports players get paid nowadays get is just unreal. the Yankees take the global prize for being the king of spenders though. Football, basketball, hockey and hockey can’t even come close to that kind of team salary.

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