amazing baseball salaries, some good/some bad

[ILikeToParty]

So usa today ran all of mlb's salary in fridays paper and some of these salaries are amazing.

First the not so good, or GREAT of you're the player :


Vernon Wells - 26.1 million/yr - are u kidding me? Yeah this guy is talented no doubt but this is so ridiculously overpaid

Kouske Fukudome (cubs) - $14,500,000 - now I see why the cubs never win anything if they'll give almost 15 mill/yr to this guy. His agent did an incredible job

Carlos Lee (Hou) - $19,000,000 - Just absolute robbery

Jason Bay (Mets) - $18,125,000 - just OMFG. Yeah guy is a nice player but 18 mill/yr is just bad bad bad spending

Kyle Lohse (STL) - $12,187,000 - when was this guy ever even good for long enough to get this deal???

Aaron Rowand (SF) - $13,600,000 - aaron rowand over 13 mill/yr???? Whoa

There are some others but those were at least somewhat understandable (guys had huge contract yrs then feel back to normal,etc) but those listed above are OUTRAGEOUS.


The bargains to follow

[ILikeToParty]

Srry for the poor grammar, spacing, etc. Posting on phone and it doesn't come out that well sometimes

[Dr. Jack]

Carlos Lee at least put up good seasons to get the contract but yeah these GMs should be fired

[ILikeToParty]

Yeah the Vernon Wells one just blows my mind

[revnecro1273]

one of my faves this year is that lance berkman only makes like 600k less than his teammate pujols

[revnecro1273]

i am surprised zito wasn't mentioned in that article

[Dr. Jack]

I guess that's why Pujols is playing hardball with the Cards & if that's true he should

[Dr. Jack]

Originally Posted by revnecro1273

i am surprised zito wasn't mentioned in that article

Zito worst contract since Mike Hampton

[revnecro1273]

Kouske Fukudome (cubs) - $14,500,000 - now I see why the cubs never win anything if they'll give almost 15 mill/yr to this guy. His agent did an incredible job

omg...that is utterly ridiculous...don't believe he even did all that much when in japan to warrant anything close to that salary

[revnecro1273]

Originally Posted by Dr. Jack

Zito worst contract since Mike Hampton

indeed...he got in a car accident the other day...i am surprised he is going to pitch today

[ILikeToParty]

And the yankees lol, there's not one person on that team that's even the slightest bit underpaid except for maybe brett gardener. Crazy how they pay 150% of market value for every player. Must be nice

[chibob]

Originally Posted by revnecro1273

Kouske Fukudome (cubs) - $14,500,000 - now I see why the cubs never win anything if they'll give almost 15 mill/yr to this guy. His agent did an incredible job

omg...that is utterly ridiculous...don't believe he even did all that much when in japan to warrant anything close to that salary

Cubs were not high bidder

hindsight is great, don't you think?