Salaries of postseason rosters
There's something I'd like to know which anyone with some time could figure out- what are the salaries of the teams in the postseason, including only those players on the 25-man roster? Everyone talks about the Yanks spending >$200 million, but a lot of that has been a bust. I suspect the Yankees are still the highest in the postseason, but they're probably down around Boston's level.
First off, three big pitching contracts are gone, with Brown done for good ($16 million blown), Pavano down ($9 million) and Wright ($5.6 million) left off the roster, replaced by Chacon ($2.3 million), Wang (a few hundred k), and Small (~$300k). So right there that's about $30 million less for their postseason roster. I believe they're also only paying minimum for Leiter and Embree since they were released by their former teams, who have to cover the contracts.
If someone wants to bother going through the 200 players on the postseason rosters (or a subset of them), here's a player salary database. I think players are listed by the teams they started the season with, so I can't find Smalls exact salary, I suspect it's the minimum.
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