Marlins Opening Day Payroll: $46 million

  The Marlins will open the season with payroll commitments of $46 million, which includes salaries for two players, Brett Carroll and Brian Sanches, who are on the disabled list. The top wager earner is starting pitcher Nate Robertson, but the Detroit Tigers are picking up all but $400,000 of his $10 million salary this season.

  The Opening Day payroll figure represents an increase over last year's figure of $36,834,000 and comes after Major League Baseball and players' union ordered the Marlins to start forking over more dough to its players.

Marlins Salary Commitments

Hanley Ramirez			7,000,000
Ronny Paulino			1,100,000
Wes Helms			950,000
Josh Johnson			3,750,000
Ricky Nolasco			3,800,000
Cody Ross			4,450,000
Dan Uggla			7,800,000
Jorge Cantu			6,000,000
Leo Nunez			2,000,000
Anibal Sanchez			1,250,000
Renyel Pinto			1,075,000
John Baker			415,000
Cameron Maybin			400,000
Gaby Sanchez			400,000
Chris Coghlan			475,000
Dan Meyer			415,000
Brian Sanches (DL)			412,500
Burke Badenhop			400,000
Emilio Bonifacio			420,000
Chris Volstad			420,000
Nate Robertson			400,000	***
Brian Barden			415,000
Clay Hensley			425,000
Mike Lamb			500,000
Jose Veras			550,000
Brett Carroll		(DL)	403,000
Tim Wood			400,000
Total   $46,025,000
**** Robertson will make $10 million, of which Tigers are paying $9.6 million.

Comments

[TONY]

IT'S HARD TO COMPETE WITH THE YANKEES, RED SOX OR METS SINCE THEIR PAYROLLS ARE ALL AROUND $200,000,000.00 PER YEAR. THOSE TEAMS SHOULD BE WINNING THE WORLD SERIES EVERY YEAR. TALK ABOUT BUYING A CHAMPIONSHIP!

[bobbyd12]

Wow, why would Detroit pay 9.6 Million Dollars of this guys salary??? Dint wanna pay an extra $400,000 to keep him on their team??? Sounds like Marlins got a hell of a deal

[K-man]

We still compete with a low payroll. It is also just as much about knowing who to give the money too. Loria is cheap but the front office knows how to find talent

[Stan]

At least this level is decent. I have been very critical of Loria's ownership. As long as he gives back the revenue share money to players then I think they will be able to retain some good players and keep fans.

If the organization would have froze the level of pay from '97 then there would be around 20,000 per game. Now it will take more to win back fans.

[James]

i think the marlins are every bit as good as the phils and we will begin to show it, starting today

[ukdolfan]

One thing is for sure, there is NO way Uggla is worth anywhere within 100 miles of $7.8 million a year fir his actual stats