Originally Posted By: fish4brains
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The salaries for Kansas City’s 27 players on its opening-day roster and disabled lists total $36.1 million, according to an analysis of major league contracts by The Associated Press.

A-Rod alone makes $32 million atop the New York Yankees’ $201.7 million payroll. He is baseball’s highest-paid player for the 11th straight year.



Agreed Arod is a punk BUT the Yankees also pay a ton of money in luxury tax that teams like KC, Pitt, Florida and others do not put into player payroll. A minimum salary floor needs to be enacted to bring the bottom dwellers up to a more competitive level.