Salary Cost for Each Cub win vs. Salary Cost for Each Red Win

By: T.R. Slyder, TRSlyder@yahoo.com, @AndyDisco on Twitter


Sorry I didn't use charts for this, but you get the idea.


Through July 4th 2010.


The Cubs starter's 2010 salaries- : Wins


Zamrano: $18,875,000- 3 $6.2 mil/win
Dempster: $13,500,000- 6 2.25 mil/win
Lilly: $13,000,000- 3 4.3 mil/win
Silva: $12,790,000- 8 1.59 mil/win
Wells: $427,000 - 4 106,750/ win

Total: $58,592,000 24 = $2,441,333 per win
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In contrast. The 2010 Reds' pitchers with the 5 most starts

(# of starts) 2010- Salary- Wins

Arroyo (17) $11,650,000- 8
Harang (17) 12,500,000- 6
Cueto (17) 445,000- 8
Leake (15) N/A- 5 (I counted this as "0" since it can't be a whole lot)
Bailey (9) 418,000 1


Total: 25,013,000- 28- $893,321 per win





That's how I roll.