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Monday, June 15, 2009

Listening to Sports Salaries


Listening to baseball highlights while brainstorming fundraising ideas.

Do you ever just wish the guy who makes 20 million a year playing a ball game would toss you 20K to adopt a kid?

Here's an interesting perspective....(just for "fun")

Below are the 2009 salaries for the top 25 Major League Baseball players on active rosters and disabled lists as of June 1.

1. 3B Alex Rodriguez, NYY $ 33,000,000

2. OF Manny Ramirez, LA $ 23,854,494

3. SS Derek Jeter, NYY $ 21,600,000

4. 1B Mark Teixeira, NYY $ 20,625,000

5. OF Carlos Beltran, NYM $ 19,243,682

6. OF Carlos Lee, HOU $ 19,000,000

7. OF Magglio Ordonez, DET $ 18,971,596

8. SP/LH Johan Santana, NYM $ 18,876,139

9. SP/RH Carlos Zambrano, CHC $ 18,750,000

10. SP/LH Barry Zito, SF $ 18,500,000

11. OF Torii Hunter, LAA $ 18,000,000

12. OF Ichiro Suzuki, SEA $ 18,000,000

13. OF Alfonso Soriano, CHC $ 17,000,000

14. 3B Aramis Ramirez, CHC $ 16,650,000

15. 1B Todd Helton, COL $ 16,600,000

16. SP/RH A.J. Burnett, NYY $ 16,500,000

17. SP/RH Tim Hudson, ATL $ 15,500,000

18. SP/LH CC Sabathia, NYY $ 15,285,714

19. SP/RH Jason Schmidt, LA $ 15,217,401

20. OF Vladimir Guerrero, LAA $ 15,000,000

21. 1B Ryan Howard, PHI $ 15,000,000

22. SP/RH Derek Lowe, ATL $ 15,000,000

23. RP/RH Mariano Rivera, NYY $ 15,000,000

24. SS Miguel Tejada, HOU $ 14,811,414

25. 1B Lance Berkman, HOU $ 14,500,000

Ever wish you had the guts to send 'em a fundraising letter?! Of course, not - but it's fun to imagine it!

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