The Brewster

Having just acquired two very pricey starting pitchers, I was experiencing some minor buyer's remorse. It got me thinking about the league's salary distribution. Here's a graph of the league's salary distribution. I used the dataset of all BBA players earning more than the league minimum. This only lists 2062 salaries; it does not consider total contracts.


Here is a list of the teams that employ the top 100 salaries. I was surprised to see our Atlantic Division rival Charlotte ahead of Nashville.

TOP 100 SALARIES BY TEAM

Rank	Team	Qty	Total Salary
1	CHA	6	$75,550,000
2	NSH	6	$73,203,371
3	SAC	6	$65,200,000
4	VAN	5	$64,800,000
5	SFB	5	$62,975,000
6	CLG	4	$62,000,000
7	CCJ	4	$61,620,000
8	DM	5	$60,000,000
9	CHI	4	$52,600,000
10	TWC	4	$48,700,000
11	MAD	5	$48,300,000
12	JAX	4	$47,600,000
13	HAW	4	$45,300,000
14	LV	4	$44,100,000
15	MEX	3	$43,950,000
16	MTL	3	$42,800,000
17	POR	3	$40,300,000
18	BRK	3	$36,600,000
19	AUS	3	$35,700,000
20	VAL	3	$31,600,000
21	RMO	2	$31,000,000
22	ATC	2	$30,000,000
23	SA	2	$25,300,000
24	LOU	2	$22,000,000
25	BOI	2	$21,900,000
26	NO	2	$21,500,000
27	YS9	1	$13,000,000
28	LBC	1	$10,000,000
29	OMA	1	$10,000,000
30	CPF	1	$9,936,000
31	PHX	1	$9,500,000
32	BIK	1	$9,000,000

Here's the list of the rich guys:

TOP 100 SALARIES

Rank	Player	Pos	Team	Age	Salary	Percentile
1	Resurrection Santos III	RF	CLG	30	$24,000,000	100%
2	Wafid Bishr	1B	MEX	34	$21,000,000	100%
3	Héctor Silva	SP	CCJ	30	$20,900,000	100%
4	José Vargas	RF	CHA	29	$20,250,000	99%
5	Adam Hines	SP	CHI	29	$20,000,000	99%
6	Okyay Nisancî	LF	ATC	36	$20,000,000	99%
7	Eric Stevens	SP	NSH	30	$17,400,000	99%
8	Steven Flannery	SP	RMO	36	$17,000,000	99%
9	Steven Clayton	SP	DM	34	$16,000,000	98%
10	Majid Bin Husam	1B	JAX	34	$16,000,000	98%
11	Dirk Bessi	SP	VAN	30	$15,500,000	98%
12	Carlos Sánchez	CF	HAW	29	$15,500,000	98%
13	Umar Dogar	SP	MTL	33	$15,000,000	98%
14	Kazunari Chikafuji	RF	CCJ	33	$15,000,000	98%
15	Sakutaro Kawano	SP	SFB	34	$14,600,000	97%
16	Luis González	SP	MTL	31	$14,400,000	97%
17	Hector Cano, Jr.	CF	SA	35	$14,300,000	97%
18	Ielemia Faletose	SP	SFB	33	$14,000,000	96%
19	Malik Bin Mazin	1B	RMO	35	$14,000,000	96%
20	Ollie Long	3B	CLG	27	$14,000,000	96%
21	Yuu Suzuki	3B	SFB	29	$14,000,000	96%
22	Brooks Eliot	SS	NSH	29	$14,000,000	96%
23	Wilson Prieto	CF	BRK	29	$14,000,000	96%
24	Sammy Mcneill	SS	POR	35	$13,700,000	96%
25	Bernie Stuart	SP	POR	38	$13,600,000	95%
26	Thomas Turner	SP	VAL	37	$13,600,000	95%
27	Félix Ramos	3B	TWC	31	$13,600,000	95%
28	Samuel Nebraska	RP	MTL	30	$13,400,000	95%
29	Dave Ackerman	2B	CCJ	31	$13,320,000	95%
30	Brent Gilbert	1B	AUS	30	$13,300,000	94%
31	Badr Isam	SS	SAC	35	$13,300,000	94%
32	Motka Beteev	SP	VAN	30	$13,000,000	93%
33	Ollie Lowry	SP	YS9	34	$13,000,000	93%
34	Edmond Thomas	SP	CLG	32	$13,000,000	93%
35	Alaric Wullenweber	SP	POR	42	$13,000,000	93%
36	Dallas Dixon	1B	CHA	36	$13,000,000	93%
37	Tadataka Yoshikawa	3B	LV	36	$13,000,000	93%
38	Wan-Ling Koo	LF	DM	30	$13,000,000	93%
39	Callum Mckay	LF	NO	26	$13,000,000	93%
40	Mahad Einan	SP	BOI	36	$12,600,000	92%
41	Jerry Stone	SP	TWC	32	$12,600,000	92%
42	Phil Cole	RP	VAN	37	$12,500,000	92%
43	Niaz Minhas	2B	TWC	34	$12,500,000	92%
44	Tokimasa Yano	C	CCJ	36	$12,400,000	92%
45	Crissy Tingle	CF	NSH	27	$12,210,271	92%
46	Amphibian Johnson	CF	VAN	26	$12,200,000	91%
47	Bob Anderson	SP	CHA	32	$12,000,000	91%
48	Emilio Morales, Jr.	1B	BRK	29	$12,000,000	91%
49	Socrates Kazantziakis	3B	AUS	36	$12,000,000	91%
50	Vassilis Zorba	SP	MEX	35	$11,950,000	91%
51	Carlos Moya	SP	CHI	31	$11,900,000	90%
52	Lou Bayou	CF	SAC	27	$11,900,000	90%
53	Mark Moore	SP	MAD	34	$11,700,000	90%
54	Claudio Morgan	C	LV	30	$11,600,000	90%
55	Jamie Angwin	RF	VAN	36	$11,600,000	90%
56	Angelo Lucchesi	CF	CHI	35	$11,200,000	90%
57	David Molina	RP	NSH	28	$11,093,000	89%
58	Barney Lindsay	RP	SA	38	$11,000,000	87%
59	Tommy Akers	SP	DM	30	$11,000,000	87%
60	Jamie Barber	SP	SAC	36	$11,000,000	87%
61	Dave Corfield	SP	MEX	37	$11,000,000	87%
62	Takehide Gertrudes	SP	JAX	38	$11,000,000	87%
63	Shinsui Hasegawa	SP	CLG	32	$11,000,000	87%
64	Kinzo Iwamoto	SP	HAW	38	$11,000,000	87%
65	Todd Tatlock	C	LOU	36	$11,000,000	87%
66	Scott Torres	2B	LOU	35	$11,000,000	87%
67	Qutuz Mahdi	SS	SFB	36	$11,000,000	87%
68	Buwono Mainaky	SP	CHA	33	$10,800,000	87%
69	Harold Nothard	RP	BRK	34	$10,600,000	87%
70	Gavrilovich Mastinsky	SP	JAX	36	$10,600,000	87%
71	Glenn Fox	RF	AUS	31	$10,400,000	87%
72	Semih Gurânî	SP	HAW	34	$10,300,000	86%
73	John Avery	SP	ATC	36	$10,000,000	85%
74	Arnold Cantrell	SP	DM	35	$10,000,000	85%
75	Felipe Méndez	SP	OMA	35	$10,000,000	85%
76	Josh Dougherty	CL	CHA	34	$10,000,000	85%
77	Rhys Atticus	C	LBC	27	$10,000,000	85%
78	Majd Bin Nawaf	1B	JAX	29	$10,000,000	85%
79	Mohammed Bin Mus'Ad	3B	SAC	28	$10,000,000	85%
80	Félix Parreno	3B	DM	35	$10,000,000	85%
81	Max Shepperson	LF	TWC	30	$10,000,000	85%
82	Sam Butler	C	CPF	27	$9,936,000	85%
83	Jim Fleming	SP	LV	31	$9,900,000	84%
84	Tyler Murray	SP	MAD	33	$9,800,000	84%
85	Owen Geddes	SP	LV	36	$9,600,000	84%
86	Alfonso Gonzáles	CF	NSH	27	$9,500,100	84%
87	Luis Pérez	RP	CHA	34	$9,500,000	83%
88	Josh Clark	SP	MAD	33	$9,500,000	83%
89	Joe King	SP	SAC	33	$9,500,000	83%
90	John Kinsella	C	SAC	35	$9,500,000	83%
91	Jorge Gutiérrez	1B	CHI	36	$9,500,000	83%
92	Mas'Ud Bin Salah Al Din	3B	PHX	25	$9,500,000	83%
93	Bill Irvine	2B	SFB	28	$9,375,000	82%
94	Doug Eckhoff	SP	BOI	33	$9,300,000	82%
95	Tim Bartlett	3B	VAL	31	$9,300,000	82%
96	Jon Brown	SP	BIK	34	$9,000,000	82%
97	Mark Lolololo	SP	NSH	27	$9,000,000	82%
98	Ricardo Norman	1B	MAD	26	$8,800,000	82%
99	Mark Kimball	LF	VAL	31	$8,700,000	81%
100	Clint Thomas	CL	MAD	31	$8,500,000	81%
101	Tom Guenette	3B	NO	27	$8,500,000	81%
102	Vincente Méndez	RF	HAW	30	$8,500,000	81%

I’d have been right there before I traded Ramos.

I think Bikini should have only 1 in Jon Brown. Meza ans Nakamura are not on the list. Interesting, though.

RonCo wrote: ↑

Sat Apr 05, 2025 6:48 pm

I think Bikini should have only 1 in Jon Brown. Meza ans Nakamura are not on the list. Interesting, though.

Oops. I'll fix it. You're doing a great job of fact checking my posts.

RonCo wrote: ↑

Sat Apr 05, 2025 6:48 pm

I think Bikini should have only 1 in Jon Brown. Meza ans Nakamura are not on the list. Interesting, though.

Thank you. Fixed it.

I have to have a purpose someplace or another!

Speaking of buyer’s remorse. I didn’t love the Vargas contract when I signed him but it’s been worse than I feared. He’s put up a little more than 1 WAR per $10 million he’s been paid so far. At least he makes a little less next year.

That's a neat little graphic thanks for sharing!