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Inside Feature
The following
list shows the average baseball salary on opening day by year. Salaries include
prorated shares of signing bonuses. In some cases, parts of salaries deferred
without interest were discounted to reflect values through 2002. Player salaries
in 2002 were double what they were in 1994, the year of
the strike. Source: NY Times reporting of Associated Press.
| YEAR | AVERAGE SALARY | PCT INCREASE |
| 1989 | $512,804 |
NA |
| 1990 | $578,930 |
12.9 |
| 1991 | $891,188 |
53.9 |
| 1992 | $1,084,408 |
21.7 |
| 1993 | $1,120,254 |
3.3 |
| 1994 | $1,188,679 |
6.1 |
| 1995* | $1,071,029 |
-9.9 |
| 1996 | $1,176,967 |
9.9 |
| 1997 | $1,383,578 |
17.6 |
| 1998 | $1,441,406 |
4.2 |
| 1999 | $1,720,050 |
19.3 |
| 2000 | $1,988,034 |
15.6 |
| 2001 | $2,264,403 |
13.9 |
| 2002 | $2,383,235 |
5.2 |
* Notice that salaries were lower in 1995 as the result of the 1994 player strike.
Avg Salaries
by Position in 2002- C $3,645,329; 1B $5,701,654; 2B $3,189,423; 3B
$3,339,078; SS $4,182,703; OF $3,992,607; SP $3,315,341; RP $1,516,079;
DH $6,186,224
The following
list shows each MLB team with it's player salaries and winning percentage.
Teams making the playoffs are in bold. It's no coincidence that all eight
1998 playoff teams had an above average team salary ($39,699,981).
For
Historic Salary List: Alphabetically by Player, Team and League
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| TEAM LG | 1998 Salaries | PCT |
| BAL A | 68,988,134 | 0.488 |
| CLE A | 59,408,500 | 0.549 |
| ATL N | 59,026,000 | 0.654 |
| NY A | 58,010,568 | 0.704 |
| TEX A | 55,304,595 | 0.543 |
| SEA A | 51,857,136 | 0.472 |
| BOS A | 51,477,000 | 0.568 |
| CHI N | 49,433,000 | 0.552 |
| NY N | 49,147,999 | 0.543 |
| STL N | 49,060,000 | 0.512 |
| TOR A | 48,171,000 | 0.543 |
| LA N | 47,800,000 | 0.512 |
| COL N | 45,764,648 | 0.475 |
| SD N | 45,378,000 | 0.605 |
| HOU N | 40,459,000 | 0.630 |
| SF N | 40,400,833 | 0.546 |
| ANA A | 38,302,000 | 0.525 |
| CHI A | 36,500,000 | 0.494 |
| PHI N | 34,370,000 | 0.463 |
| KC A | 32,962,500 | 0.447 |
| FLA N | 32,244,000 | 0.333 |
| MIL N | 32,053,012 | 0.457 |
| ARI N | 29,850,500 | 0.401 |
| MIN A | 26,182,500 | 0.432 |
| TB A | 24,727,500 | 0.389 |
| CIN N | 21,825,000 | 0.475 |
| DET A | 21,747,500 | 0.401 |
| OAK A | 19,723,000 | 0.457 |
| PIT N | 12,836,000 | 0.426 |
| MON N | 7,989,500 | 0.401 |
MLB
Cash Flows
See if
the players have reason to strike. The following table shows the revenue
and expenses in millions of dollars for each MLB team from 1990 through 1996.
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