Red Sox Now 4th For Salary $
Fenway West - A Boston Red Sox Blog —
The Red Sox cut $10 million for their payroll and are now 4th in terms of salaries behind the Yankees, Mets, and Tigers. The Sox payroll is now $133,440,037. ...
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SOX & Dawgs —
... The Red Sox are 4th this season in payroll. Of course the Evil Empire tops the list at over $209 million. No shock there. ...
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Big League Stew —
... said.) Around the baseball blogosphere ... • Which is the more impressive undefeated team: the '72 Dolphins or the '08 Pirates? [Honest Wagner] • Will MLB's new media restrictions ever filter down to independent baseball blogs? [Gaslamp Ball] • Finally, in praise of the designated hitter. [Sons of Steve Garvey] • For the first time since 2004, the Red Sox aren't second in terms of payroll. [Extra Bases] • The scoreboard at new Yankees Stadium is going to be impressive. [ ...
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The Bottom Line —
... in his short career. Match-up to Watch: David Ortiz vs Harden - Big Papi is way over due for some offense. He's currently 0-11 this season. April is traditionally Papi's worst month (.276 BA), but last year he hit .297 with 7 home runs in the first month... Other stuff You may not have heard, but Superman told us Dice-K would begin his dominance last night... For the first time in what seems like forever, the Red Sox don't have the second highest payroll in baseball... Incase you're still mad that the ...
Movin' On Down
YFSF —
... In what I would say is a surprise to most Red Sox fans, the Sox no longer are the second-highest paid team in baseball.
Here's the Top 5 payrolls, courtesy the Globe.
N.Y. Yankees -- $209,081,579
Detroit -- 138,685,197
New York Mets -- 138,293,378
Boston -- 133,440,037
Chicago White Sox -- 121,152,667
Also, consider the bottom five:
Washington -- 54,961,000
Pittsburgh -- 49,365,283
Oakland -- 47,967,126
Tampa Bay -- 43,820,598
Florida -- ...
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BostonsportZ —
... have defaulted to over the past decade, an argument which informed Red Sox fans know that we can no longer make. But before we throw this team aside based on some notion that the new pin-stripers won’t gel together because of their payroll, we must consider that this is a team that hasn’t won a championship in close to a decade, and they’re not happy about it. They didn’t go out and enlist this type of firepower because they’re not fired up. This season, the beast might actually have heart, and that’s something that should scare us as fans. ...
