Useless Yankees vs. Marlins Info

 

The Yankees and the Marlins, theoretically, play the same sport. But if the Yankees are the Nordstrom of baseball, the Marlins are the Value City.

 

So it's time to play the always-entertaining Yankees Versus Marlins Payroll Game. Let's throw out the first pitch.

 

Yankees pre-Sept. 1 payroll: $198,662,180.

 

Marlins pre-Sept. 1 payroll: $184,317,680 less than that.

 

Now, to help us play this game, ESPN.com's Dave Kull has contributed some sensational tidbits.

 

How many Yankees make more than all the Marlins? How about five -- A-Rod ($25.68 million), Derek Jeter ($20.6 million), Jason Giambi ($20.43 million), Mike Mussina ($19 million) and Randy Johnson ($15.66 million). Just A-Rod's salary alone would pay for 54.4 Miguel Cabreras.

 

The Marlins' current everyday lineup earns a total of $3.134,500. Which is only slightly less than Craig Wilson ($3.3 million) -- and less than 16 different Yankees altogether.

 

The Marlins' entire starting rotation makes $5.658 million. Which is a little more than Kyle Farnsworth ($5.42 million) but still less than 13 different Yankees (five of whom pitch for a living).

 

Which led Kull to the most entertaining question of the day: Suppose the Yankees had to play the Marlins with one key rule change in effect: The Yankees could only field a team that earned no more than the Marlins' payroll?

 

Well, it wouldn't be easy. And the Bombers probably wouldn't even be favored. But using the pre-Sept. 1 rosters, here's the cheapest Yankees team Kull was able to throw together:

 

Cheapest Yankees lineup

C: Sal Fasano, 425,000

1B: Andy Phillips, 331,150

2B: Robinson Cano, 381,000

SS: Nick Green, 356,700

3B: Miguel Cairo, 1,000,000

OF: Bernie Williams, 1,500,000

OF: Melky Cabrera, 327,000

OF: Aaron Guiel, 350,000

DH: Craig Wilson, 3,300,000

Total salary: $7,970,850

 

Cheapest Yankees pitching staff

Chien-Ming Wang, 353,175

Cory Lidle, 3,300,000

Jeff Karstens, 327,000

Tanyon Sturtze, 1,500,000

Scott Proctor, 353,675

Total salary: $5,833,850

 

Total salary for lineup and pitching staff: $13,804,700

 

After perusing that roster, we'll bet the 2003 World Series trophy on those Floridians.

 

Finally, if the Marlins do make the playoffs, that $184.3 million disparity between their payroll and the Yankees' will set a new record for (surprise) biggest payroll gap between two playoff teams.

 

OK, so it's a record the Yankees and somebody break every year. But a record is a record. The previous largest financial mismatch was $166.8 million, which was set by the Yankees ($208.3M) and Indians ($41.5M) way back last October.

 

 

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I find this very interesting, indeed it is a huge gap, and would be very embarrasing in Yankee nation, Proves once and for all that our Admin Beinfest is pure genious.

I'm pretty sure all of us that have been fans for years have known that Beinfest is by far the most underrated and undervalued GM in baseball. There is no other general manager I'd rather have working for this team. If he doesn't win GM of the year, something is drastically wrong. I still can't believe he didn't win it in 2003.

 

But the Marlins have always been lucky when it comes to GM's... Dave Dombrowski is easily one of the games top 10.

 

For years, everybody diminshed what Beinfest had done with this team, saying that all the young talent that we won with was because of Dombrowski. That may have been true to a certain extent, but THIS is Admin's team. NOBODY can take credit for this one...

Minaya?

Suppose the Yankees had to play the Marlins with one key rule change in effect: The Yankees could only field a team that earned no more than the Marlins' payroll?

 

 

:lol

I could see us destroying the Yankees

Suppose the Yankees had to play the Marlins with one key rule change in effect: The Yankees could only field a team that earned no more than the Marlins' payroll?

 

 

:lol

I could see us destroying the Yankees

Why talk hypotheticals? Head-to-head this year we won 1/3 and came close to winning 2/3.