The Mets' payroll?

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So I read an article Barzilla wrote last weekend and then see another one from Fox's Ken "I Never Met A Texan I Liked" Rosenthall :hmm: And I keep reading that Houston will now have the 3rd-highest payroll after adding Clemens last week, something around $104 million.

And I'm thinking, "Hmm, that can't be right. I added up the Mets' numbers earlier this year and they should be above that."

Don't get me wrong; somewhere in this forum is a post by me in which I remarked something about how wisely NYM's spent this winter. But I go to Useless Today's website and pull up their salary database and I'm like, "Whoa! The Mets' payroll this year is a quarter-mil less than 2005?!" :eek: No way, my math can't be that far off.

Didn't New York pay a portion of Cameron's salary in the trade to San Diego? Plus I see they're not calculating El Duque's extra salary over Julio's. James, where were my other math errors from earlier this year?

[Baseball Guru]

When i get some time, I'll look at the difference from last year to this year.. (sometime today I'll have the time)

I do know that a huge salary lost from last year is Piazza's 16 million... But we added Delgado (13 million+) and Wagner (10 million)

I also do know that the Pads are paying ALL of Cammeron's slary this season so we are off the hook for that....

With El Duque you add about a +2 million difference over Julio...

I'll look over the rest this afternoon..

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I also do know that the Pads are paying ALL of Cammeron's slary this season so we are off the hook for that....Ok, I obviously misread that part when the deal went down. The USA Today database may not even calculate things like that if there was some sharing of salary, though I know they're adding Bagwell's salary into Houston's payroll even though some part of that will eventually be borne by the friggin' insurance buttmunches.

[RockinRobin62LI]

We also lost Benson's salary. Supposedly that was the very reason he was traded. :yadda:

Are we still paying Mo Vaughn??? ;)

[Baseball Guru]

Are we still paying Mo Vaughn??? ;)


lol.. Thank God, NO!:bonehead

His last 17 million came in 2004:hmm:

Here's a look at our payroll since 2000:

2006 $ 101,084,963
2005 $ 101,305,821
2004 $ 96,660,970
2003 $ 117,176,429
2002 $ 94,633,593
2001 $ 93,674,428
2000 $ 79,759,762


A breakdown of all players under the payroll in 2005 & 2006:
2006:
Bannister, Brian $ 327,000
Beltran, Carlos $ 13,571,428
Bradford, Chad $ 1,400,000
Castro, Ramon $ 800,000
Chavez, Endy $ 500,000
Delgado, Carlos $ 13,500,000
Diaz, Victor $ 335,000
Floyd, Cliff $ 6,616,856
Franco, Julio $ 1,050,000
Glavine, Tom $ 9,993,640
Heilman, Aaron $ 359,000
Hernandez, Anderson $ 327,000
Julio, Jorge $ 2,525,000
Lo Duca, Paul $ 6,599,206
Martinez, Pedro $ 14,875,000
Matsui, Kazuo $ 8,033,333
Nady, Xavier $ 427,000
Oliver, Darren $ 600,000
Padilla, Juan $ 333,000
Reyes , Jose $ 401,500
Sanchez , Duaner $ 399,500
Trachsel, Steve $ 2,500,000
Valentin, Jose $ 912,500
Wagner, Billy $ 10,500,000
Woodward, Chris $ 825,000
Wright, David $ 374,000
Zambrano, Victor $ 3,000,000


2005:
Aybar, Manny $ 425,000
Beltran, Carlos $ 11,571,429
Benson, Kris $ 5,333,333
Cairo, Miguel $ 900,000
Cameron, Mike $ 7,333,333
Castro, Ramon $ 500,000
DeJean, Mike $ 1,150,000
Floyd, Cliff $ 6,616,856
Fortunato, Bartolome $ 317,000
Glavine, Tom $ 10,765,608
Heredia, Felix $ 1,800,000
Hernandez, Roberto $ 650,000
Ishii, Kazuhisa $ 3,575,000
Koo, Dae Sung $ 450,000
Looper, Braden $ 800,000
Martinez, Pedro $ 10,875,000
Matsui, Kazuo $ 7,033,333
Matthews, Mike $ 500,000
Mientkiewicz, Doug $ 3,750,000
Piazza, Mike $ 16,071,429
Reyes , Jose $ 332,000
Trachsel, Steve $ 6,782,500
Valent, Eric $ 332,000
Woodward, Chris $ 700,000
Wright, David $ 322,500
Yates, Tyler $ 319,500
Zambrano, Victor $ 2,100,000


*Note: Doesn't reflect the recent trade with Hernandez and Julio, which would add about 2 million to the 2006 payroll...

Also, i dont think that USA Today payroll is totally accurate.. I was looking up Mike Hampton and I remember when the Fish traded him to the Marlins, they were paying a HUGE chunk of his salary, but it shows all of his salary under the Braves payroll...

Willie, did you notice the Marlins payroll? Holy crap!:eek:

The D-Rays have the 2nd lowest payroll in all of baseball at $ 35,417,967.. The Marlins have the lowest at $ 14,998,500:eek:

That is the lowest team payroll since the Expos had a $ 9,202,000 payroll in 1998....

[PopTop]

Also, i dont think that USA Today payroll is totally accurate.. I was looking up Mike Hampton and I remember when the Fish traded him to the Marlins, they were paying a HUGE chunk of his salary, but it shows all of his salary under the Braves payroll...Yeah, not sure how accurate their database really is.

I think one of the places I didn't account for was the Benson deal.

By the way, I do believe Bobby Bonilla still has his hooks in the Mets for a little bit. Think there were a couple of very small payments (less than a million) due him like in 2007 and 2010, something like that.

[Baseball Guru]

You may be right on Bonilla... I have no idea what kind of bonehead contract the Mets gave him.. I thought he was getting paid thru 2010 in some way as well...

Here's an ESPN one that looks more accurate as they have El Duque's on it... It actually shows a LOWER payroll...

PLAYER SALARY (US$)
1. Pedro Martinez 14,875,000
2. Carlos Beltran 13,571,429
3. Carlos Delgado 13,500,000
4. Tom Glavine 10,500,000
5. Billy Wagner 10,500,000
6. Kazuo Matsui 8,058,333
7. Paul Lo Duca 6,600,823
8. Cliff Floyd 6,500,000
9. Orlando Hernandez 4,625,000
10. Victor Zambrano 3,000,000
11. Steve Trachsel 2,500,000
12. Chad Bradford 1,400,000
13. Julio Franco 1,050,000
14. Jose Valentin 912,500
15. Chris Woodward 825,000
16. Ramon Castro 800,000
17. Endy Chavez 500,000
18. Xavier Nady 427,000
19. Jose Reyes 401,500
20. Duaner Sanchez 399,500
21. David Wright 374,000
22. Aaron Heilman 359,000
23. Juan Padilla 333,000
24. Brian Bannister 327,000
Total Team Salary: 100,901,085


Also, I was looking up Marrero's 2006 salary and there was a big difference between USA Today and ESPN.. ESPN has his contract at $750,000 and USA Today has it listed at $350,000:notme:

Here are the total team salaries according to ESPN:

Note:
Team salaries do not represent full team payroll. Number listed includes current salary for all players currently on the roster.

1. NY Yankees 198,662,180
2. Boston 120,100,524
3. LA Angels 103,625,333
4. Chicago Sox 102,875,667
5. NY Mets 100,901,085
6. LA Dodgers 99,176,950
7. Chicago Cubs 94,841,166
8. Atlanta 92,461,852
9. Houston 92,101,503
10. San Francisco 90,862,064
11. Seattle 87,924,500
12. Philadelphia 87,148,333
13. St. Louis 86,912,217
14. Detroit 82,302,069
15. Baltimore 72,585,712
16. Toronto 71,915,000
17. San Diego 68,897,179
18. Texas 65,129,570
19. Minnesota 63,810,048
20. Washington 63,267,500
21. Oakland 62,322,054
22. Cincinnati 59,162,015
23. Arizona 58,884,226
24. Cleveland 56,795,867
25. Milwaukee 50,540,000
26. Kansas City 47,294,000
27. Pittsburgh 46,867,750
28. Colorado 40,791,000
29. Tampa Bay 35,417,967
30. Florida 14,344,500

[Rockin Robin]

Wow, I always thought the Mets were at number two. Quite interesting that they dropped down to #5. And even more interesting is that they're such a huge contender with having shaved a smidgen off last year's payroll!

[Baseball Guru]

I think a lot has to do with not only upgrading the talent but also the chemistry.. You can see it, this team has great chemistry!

[Cyberlibrarian]

Robin, I believe the Red Sox are #2.

Also, Matsui's salary no longer counts as part of our payroll since he's now with the Rockies.

Just like the Yankees' payroll is artificially lower than it would be if they included the fact that they are paying both Jose Contreras and Javier Vasquez to play for the White Sox. In addition, last year they also had to pay Jeff Weaver to play for the Dodgers.