Phillies Salaries Total $180,052,723
That's a whole lot of home runs. We hope.
Deadspin has a list of all of the payrolls this season in Major League Baseball, with the Phillies coming in at third place overall in the league with $180,052,073. The Los Angeles Dodgers and New York Yankees will pay out $235,295,219 and $203,812,506 this year, respectively.
Here is the Phillies team salary breakdown, as published by Deadspin. The four highest-paid Phillies players together earn approximately half of the team total.
Ryan | Howard | $25,000,000 |
Cliff | Lee | $25,000,000 |
Cole | Hamels | $23,500,000 |
Chase | Utley | $15,000,000 |
A.J. | Burnett | $14,707,756 |
Jonathan | Papelbon | $13,000,000 |
Jimmy | Rollins | $11,000,000 |
Carlos | Ruiz | $8,500,000 |
Marlon | Byrd | $8,000,000 |
Kyle | Kendrick | $7,675,000 |
Mike | Adams | $7,000,000 |
Roberto | Hernandez | $4,500,000 |
Miguel | Gonzalez | $3,666,667 |
Antonio | Bastardo | $2,000,000 |
Ben | Revere | $1,950,000 |
John | Mayberry | $1,587,500 |
Wil | Nieves | $1,125,000 |
Domonic | Brown | $550,000 |
Jake | Diekman | $515,500 |
Justin | De Fratus | $513,000 |
Brad | Lincoln | $512,300 |
Cody | Asche | $500,000 |
Phillippe | Aumont | $500,000 |
Freddy | Galvis | $500,000 |
Cesar | Hernandez | $500,000 |
Ethan | Martin | $500,000 |
Jonathan | Pettibone | $500,000 |
B.J. | Rosenberg | $500,000 |
Darin | Ruf | $500,000 |
Cameron | Rupp | $500,000 |