Orioles Opening Day Payroll 2017

[AZRon]

As I did last year, for those who want to play GM, I am presenting the current opening day team payroll. I'm dealing only with the "active" roster; but the O's will have pay obligations for players on the 40 man roster.

In 2016, few posters anticipated the significant increase that Dan Duquette engineered. This year’s opening day payroll exceeded that of last year by 12.1%, about $18M.

And, please, let's dispense with the squabbling over the "accounting" for salary deferrals.

All of the latest transactions are included. Salaries are displayed as rounded to the nearest $10k, but the total is accurate to 2 decimal places. Projections for those under contract are from the Cots Baseball Prospectus Compensation Website. The MLB minimum salary is $535,000 in 2017.

I provide this information so that we can make accurate and useful comparisons to the opening day payrolls of the Orioles in previous years, other MLB teams and the totals for Major League Baseball. As with virtually all team opening day payroll tabulations on the web, my total payroll figure does not reflect any deductions for deferred salaries or additions for set-asides for deferrals from previous years (as required by Article XVI of the CBA). However, I have noted the 2017 contract deferrals in the right-most column of the below chart.

The roster, as shown here, lists the opening day active roster plus players on the disabled list.  Craig Gentry's salary is estimated.

 

PLAYER	POS	2017 SALARY	DEFERRED
		($ Million)	($ Million)
Welington Castillo	C	$6.00
Caleb Joseph	C	$0.70
Chris Davis	1B	$23.00	$6.00
Jonathan Schoop	2B	$3.48
J.J. Hardy	SS	$14.00	$2.17
Manny Machado	3B	$11.50
Adam Jones	OF	$16.33
Hyun Soo Kim	OF	$4.20
Seth Smith	OF	$7.00
*Joey Rickard	OF	$0.54
Craig Gentry	OF	$0.85
*Ant'y Santander (DL)	OF	$0.54
Mark Trumbo	DH/OF	$11.50	$1.50
*Trey Mancini	DH/1B/OF	$0.54
Ryan Flaherty	UT	$1.80
Chris Tillman (DL)	SP	$10.05
Kevin Gausman	SP	$3.45
*Dylan Bundy	SP	$1.64
Wade Miley (DL)	SP	$8.75	$2.25
Ubaldo Jimenez	SP	$13.50
Zach Britton	RP	$11.40
Brad Brach	RP	$3.05
Darren O'Day	RP	$7.00	$1.00
*Mychal Givens	RP	$0.55
*Donnie Hart	RP	$0.54
*Oliver Drake	RP	$0.54
*Tyler Wilson	RP	$0.55
Vidal Nuño	RP	$1.13
T.J.McFarland		$0.11
To Seattle w/Gallardo		$2.00
Logan Ondrusek		$0.11
Total		$166.32	$12.92
* Pre-Arbitration

[Crabcakes]

You mean the O's have finally stopped paying Bobby Bonilla?

[AZRon]

Updated chart for Craig Gentry's salary -- $.85M rather than my $1M estimate

Final opening day payroll = $166.10M

[MDtransplant757]

12 minutes ago, AZRon said:

Updated chart for Craig Gentry's salary -- $.85M rather than my $1M estimate

Final opening day payroll = $166.10M

That's 10th in baseball, correct?

[weams]

2 hours ago, Crabcakes said:

You mean the O's have finally stopped paying Bobby Bonilla?

Oh Yes. Though the Mets pay him through 2038 I think.

[MDtransplant757]

3 minutes ago, weams said:

Oh Yes. Though the Mets pay him through 2038 I think.

2035. Davis will be paid for by then, oddly enough

[wildcard]

McFarland termination pay - .11m

[AZRon]

10 hours ago, wildcard said:

McFarland termination pay - .11m

Thanks -- adjusted the chart -- new total $166.32M