1 New York Yankees 9,081,579
2 New York Mets 8,685,197
3 Detroit Tigers 8,683,978
4 Boston Red Sox 8,292,937
5 Chicago White Sox 1,152,667
6 Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim 9,216,333
7 Chicago Cubs 8,595,833
8 Los Angeles Dodgers 8,536,038
9 Seattle Mariners 7,993,982
10 Atlanta Braves 2,424,018
11 St. Louis Cardinals 0,624,450
12 Toronto Blue Jays ,641,957
13 Philadelphia Phillies ,269,881
14 Houston Astros ,930,415
15 Milwaukee Brewers ,004,167
16 Cleveland Indians ,970,067
17 San Francisco Giants ,904,500
18 Cincinnati Reds ,277,695
19 San Diego Padres ,677,617
20 Colorado Rockies ,655,500
21 Texas Rangers ,239,551
22 Baltimore Orioles ,196,248
23 Arizona Diamondbacks ,202,713
24 Minnesota Twins ,182,767
25 Kansas City Royals ,245,500
26 Washington Nationals ,961,000
27 Pittsburgh Pirates ,365,283
28 Oakland Athletics ,967,126
29 Tampa Bay Rays ,820,598
30 Florida Marlins ,836,500
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Major_League_Baseball_teams_by_payroll
Come on… how is this even remotely fair?
I did not call baseball a joke, I called Major League Baseball a joke.
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Yeah, pretty messed up. But, Tampa Bay did make it to the World Series last year.
SMH at NY teams. Just because they live in NY..
Wow at Detroit Tigers reall?
At least twins Got in the playoff withoiut going over 100 million
i dont think thats a joke tom…thats reality.
There needs to be a salary cap that is for sure so every team can have a fiar advantage to get the good players. However the amount of money you spend does not necessarily mean you will be good or bad. For example the last few years (not including this one) yankees were at the top. and they did not make the post season. And the Marlins had the lowest payroll and were always in contention and several times in the past few years made the post season.
Look at it this way, tomboy.All major league teams are owned by billionaires, big, small market, it doesn’t matter.If these owners want to do the right thing and try to put together a competive team, they can. If you want a communist system in baseball, go find another sport!
yeah the twins are really good and there in it to the end
WOW SHOCKER LOOK HOW MUCH THE YANKEES SPENT!!!
im a twins fan so
basicly the 21,836,500 the marlins spent
3/4 of it was to hanley ramirez
Rich teams like the yankees pay a TAX to the major league, that’s why it’s fair.
I don’t really see your point. You’ve done nothing but list the payroll for all the teams. What exactly is your question, and why does this make baseball a "joke"?
@ Darth V, why would the luxury tax make it fair? The luxury tax is like 50,000 for every 1,000,000 you go over the threshold…that’s chump change.
The Yankees win, not only because of the players on the field, but because of their whole organization, top to bottom. The ownership invests in the team to put the best players on the field, working at every level from trades to free-agents, to a fantastic farm system (where they get most of their starting players. don’t believe me? Look at their roster.)
If you don’t like it, complain to your team’s ownership about why they don’t do what they need to win. The Yankees don’t even make a profit unless they make it to the post-season. That’s their business model. If your team shared that view, you’d compete better.
But money isn’t everything. The Mets are #2 and they suck.
The rules are set, so it’s perfectly fair, but nobody ever said it had to be even. It’s sports, not politics. If one set of millionaires loses and another wins, I really don’t feel too badly. I enjoy watching my team dominate and if your team loses, well it’s a game and like most sports, it’s a zero sum game. Sorry.
You want to change the rules, I’m OK with that, and I’m confident the Yankees front office can field the best team no matter what.
I think it’s because
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combined salary.
Thank Bud Selig.
Its not about how much there paid its how good they are if you look at the power ranking it is way different than this the 29 team rays are alot higher than that and the 2 mets are alot lower
Well, if it matters, only twice in the past 30 years has a team won the World Series with a $100 million plus payroll: the 2007 Red Sox and 2001 Yankees.
The Twins and Rockies made it made it, the Rangers were there for a while, the Phils are under 100 mil.
how does that make mlb a joke?
It’s ironic that George Steinbrenner was the one who said baseball needed a cap.
What he meant was that to make it fair, they had to have a cap on both ends….MAXIMUM allowable team payroll, and MINIMUM allowable team payroll; and the man was right!
Wow! only two teams from 20-30 made it in the playoffs
Ha Ha HA! detroit tigers are number 3, the twins are 24th, and they still couldnt get by the twins into the playoffs