[Gotham Dark Knight]

Julio Lugo 4,950,000
Carl Crawford 2,625,000
Travis Lee 2,450,000
Casey Fossum 2,025,000
Rocco Baldelli 2,000,000
Travis Harper 850,000
Ty Wigginton 675,000
Dan Miceli 650,000
Brian Meadows 600,000
Shinji Mori 500,000
Josh Paul 475,000
Tyler Walker 387,000
Luis Ordaz 375,000
Scott Kazmir 371,700
Jonny Gomes 355,800
Jorge Cantu 355,800
Jae Seo 350,000
Damon Hollins 346,200
Shawn Camp 335,000
Dioner Navarro 332,000
Ruddy Lugo 327,000

Total Team Salary: 35,417,967

Wow...Kazmir is a bargin right now...and Gomes both for under $380K each...wander what they are going to go for when they become free agents?

[Lefty Noob]

Yeesh, and both Lugo and Crawford are said to be on the block. They take up over $6 million of the $35 million team payroll. Maybe dealing them will free up some bucks so that Tampa Bay can actually try to keep Kazmir and Gomes around a while. Then again, maybe not.

[Gotham Dark Knight]

Originally Posted by Lefty Noob

Yeesh, and both Lugo and Crawford are said to be on the block. They take up over $6 million of the $35 million team payroll. Maybe dealing them will free up some bucks so that Tampa Bay can actually try to keep Kazmir and Gomes around a while. Then again, maybe not.

Its a Florida team...we like to have light pay rolls...ala Marlins...

[MVB]

Lugo, Cantu, Gomes, Wiggington, Fossum, and Crawford are steals! If they were Yankee players, they'd each have salaries of 5 million+ a year.

[Gotham Dark Knight]

Originally Posted by MVB

Lugo, Cantu, Gomes, Wiggington, Fossum, and Crawford are steals! If they were Yankee players, they'd each have salaries of 5 million+ a year.

Some how I get the feeling that sooner or later everyone gets to wear the pinstripes...(for better or worse )

[EmpireWF]

Originally Posted by Gotham Dark Knight

Its a Florida team...we like to have light pay rolls...ala Marlins...

I wouldn't knock the Marlins for the light spending this year, they're waiting until they get a stadium of their own. When they want to ('97 and the season a few years ago) they spend a bunch.

With the D-Rays, wow, it just makes you want to spin your head at how low they spend. You'd think with all the money they get from the top spenders, they would spend more on the team...guess not. Teams like this make me wish Selig and the Union would enforce a minimum team salary rule.

[Gotham Dark Knight]

Originally Posted by EmpireWF

I wouldn't knock the Marlins for the light spending this year, they're waiting until they get a stadium of their own. When they want to ('97 and the season a few years ago) they spend a bunch.

With the D-Rays, wow, it just makes you want to spin your head at how low they spend. You'd think with all the money they get from the top spenders, they would spend more on the team...guess not. Teams like this make me wish Selig and the Union would enforce a minimum team salary rule.

mIn Team salary?...What would a team going through a rebuilding phase do?...Would you force them to spend jsut because?...

[ThePundit]

Lugo and Crawford are underpaid believe it or not.

[EmpireWF]

Originally Posted by Gotham Dark Knight

mIn Team salary?...What would a team going through a rebuilding phase do?...Would you force them to spend jsut because?...

Rebuilding phase? The DRays have never spent money in their existence. I would make the minimum team payroll be at the $50 Million mark. So if that were the case this year, the Marlins, D-Rays, Pirates, Rockies and Royals would all be the teams that need to get their payrolls up.

When MLB's economic system gives a lot of money to the teams mentioned due to the higher spending teams spending, the money is suppose to be used for baseball things. I understand some of it's used for organizational purproses (ie. scouting, analyzing games, whatever of the sort) but something tells me the teams above aren't using the money they get for the right reasons. Out of all the teams mentioned, only the D-Rays have an above average farm system and that's only because they refuse to pay any legit stars.

[Lefty Noob]

Originally Posted by EmpireWF

Teams like this make me wish Selig and the Union would enforce a minimum team salary rule.

YES! I agree completely, Empire. Too many fat cat owners are pocketing all the profits, quite content to trot out mediocre to pathetic teams in order to keep overhead down and keep raking in the dough. Yes, a team needs to be profitable but at the same time, these guys owe it to the fans to be competitive as well. Of course, if we all would just stop buying tickets and merchandise, they'd get the message, but I doubt that'd ever happen.