Phillies' 2010 payroll is third in MLB
The Phillies had the third-highest payroll in baseball in 2010, according to information received by clubs from the commissioner's office and obtained by the Associated Press.
Phillies' 2010 payroll is third in MLB
Daily News staff
The Phillies had the third-highest payroll in baseball in 2010, according to information received by clubs from the commissioner's office and obtained by the Associated Press.
The figures are for 40-man rosters and include salaries and pro-rated shares of signing bonuses, earned incentive bonuses, non-cash compensation, buyouts of unexercised options and cash transactions, according to the AP.
The Phillies' total is $145,539,931. Only the Yankees at $215,053,064 and Boston at $170,650,856 had higher payrolls. Both teams had to pay the luxury tax.
The commissioner’s office computed the average salary at $2,932,162, up 1.7 percent from last year’s $2,882,336. The players’ association, which uses a slightly different method, pegged the average at $3,014,572 last week, up 0.6 percent from $2,996,106.
Here is the list, according to the AP:
N.Y. Yankees $215,053,064
Boston 170,650,856
Philadelphia 145,539,931
Chicago Cubs 142,410,031
Detroit 135,913,308
New York Mets 127,560,042
Los Angeles Angels 123,478,263
Chicago White Sox 112,197,078
Los Angeles Dodgers 109,753,719
Minnesota 103,039,407
San Francisco 101,417,943
St. Louis 98,354,244
Milwaukee 94,554,209
Seattle 93,376,107
Houston 90,119,188
Atlanta 89,226,985
Colorado 87,974,390
Toronto 86,803,549
Cincinnati 82,451,340
Tampa Bay 77,510,502
Kansas City 76,781,350
Texas 74,302,980
Baltimore 73,231,289
Washington 71,937,323
Arizona 70,531,163
Oakland 61,773,644
Cleveland 60,500,460
Florida 47,331,979
Pittsburgh 44,146,967
San Diego 43,654,177
Total 2,911,575,488
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In the superfluous category of cost per win, the Phillies, at 1.5 million per victory, are only 6th behind Yankees (2.26), Boston (1.92), Cubs (1.90), Detroit (1.68), and Mets (1.61). The Padres, in contrast, paid only $485K per victory, and the Marlins used to be "efficient" as well. Of course, when it's all said and done, BFD, the only thing that matters is who is World Series Champion....— ijj- Here's how I would lop off some of the Phils payroll for 2012 to get payroll flexibility without going over the luxury tax limit of around $170 million. Bring on some youth. Let Rollins walk and put Freddy Galvis at short. His .982 fielding percent was the same as J-Roll's in 2010. Ibanez will go and put Sebastian Valle in left field. He is now hitting .385 over his last 10 games playing left field in the Mexican Pacific League. Then you have Domonic Brown in right. So the Phils in 2012 would have three players in the starting lineup earning near the league minimum salary of about $400,000 each replacing salaries of Ibanez, Rollins and Werth which equals about $30 million. Buy out Lidge's 2012 option and replace him with either Mathieson or De Fratus at the League minimum and save another $10 million. Bring on the home grown youth. The time is 2012.— Dull
- I just want to see a winner. Don't care about their payroll. They make plenty with the new park. Too bad ownership didn't figure out the secret of selling out the park years ago. Maybe we could have been watching good baseball instead of the years of mess we saw. Enough with the articles about how much they are spending. It's about time.
— Ssteve115 - winning = big payrolls !!!!!!!!!— thin slice of life
- I can't even hate on the Yankees. At least I can see what they get for all of that money. But the mid-market teams like Houston and Milwaukee... they spend $90-$100m on who, exactly?? A wise use of $100m is more than enough to win the AL East, let alone the NL Central. P.S. I'm for contracting just to stop the whining of the small market teams. Sorry, the fans in a metro area of 600,000 who just started "supporting" a team simply don't deserve a parade as much as the fans of a team with a metro area of 6,000,000 - and most of them life-long fans at that. If you can't spend, you don't deserve a team.— PhillyPhan4for4
MLB refuses to open it's books and refuses to provide audited financial data. Why should anybody, including the media, accept their say-so? Hasn't anybody in the media ever studied finance?
How does MLB get around the requirements of the Privacy Act with it comes to releasing their employees' salaries? Something seem fishy !
Gryabeard
