Sabermetric Economics

The New York Yankees now have more salary on the Disabled List than the entire healthy Florida Marlins Roster. Congratulations!


I hate the Yankees.


Me too. And there's a certain level of satisfaction I get from today's fun baseball fact. As of this morning, the following human capital players and annual salaries are on the Yankees Disabled List:

• Brian Bruney ($0.725 Million)
  
• Wilson Betemit ($1.2 Million)
  
• Jorge Posada ($13.1 Million)
  
• Alex Rodriguez ($28 Million)

Yeah, I don't make that much.


Neither do I...in fact, as my old history teacher used to say, (and given my absent love of history, this is about the only thing I remember him saying) "Statistics Lie and Liars use Statistics." So statistically speaking, A-Rod and I average $14 Million a year!


If you put your head in the oven and your feet in the freezer, on average your body temperature would be okay! You should try it.


In total, the Yankees now have a ludicrous 42.99 million dollars worth of livestock sitting around injured. The entire Florida Marlins payroll is $22.65 Million for this year, and here's a fun fact: the Marlins have a better record! As of last night's games, Florida sits on top of the NL East at 15-11, and the Yankees are wallowing at 14-14, good for 4th in the AL East.


Here's a fun fact: Roy Halladay threw his third consecutive complete game loss last night.


That's not as fun.

Anyway...not that I'm advocating violence or anything, but if somehow, injury were to befall backup third baseman Morgan Ensberg, the Yankees DL would surpass the entire team salary of the Tampa Bay Rays.

If some misfortune were to happen to Kyle Farnsworth, his career 28-46 record, his 4.45 ERA, and his $5.9 Million salary, then the Bronx Bummer's All-DL team would sport a salary of 48.2 Million dollars, greater than the entire Oakland Athletics Roster.


This is fun. Who else can we break?


Let's not get carried away.