Pity the poor San Diego Padres.
Not only will they probably have MLB’s worst record over the second half of the season; they also have more than half of their payroll on the disabled list.
And that’s not good for an organizational that cut its payroll to $45 million this year (second lowest in the majors.)
The Padres have $25.475 million sitting on the DL in:
Pitcher Jake Peavy, $11 million
Outfielder Brian Giles, $9 million
Pitcher Chris Young $4.625 million, and
Second baseman David Eckstein, $850,000
And that’s not to mention three others who have been out all (or virtually all) season costing another $1.679 million:
Outfielder Cliff Floyd, $750,000
Pitcher Shawn Hill, $500,000, and
Pitcher Cha Seung Baek, $429,000
All told, these seven veterans are costing the Padres about 60 percent of their payroll for not even playing.
The Padres also traded away their second-best hitter in Scott Hairston ($1.25 million) this week in a further salary dump.
Sadly, this is a team whose only direction seems down … on and off the field.
Not only will they probably have MLB’s worst record over the second half of the season; they also have more than half of their payroll on the disabled list.
And that’s not good for an organizational that cut its payroll to $45 million this year (second lowest in the majors.)
The Padres have $25.475 million sitting on the DL in:
Pitcher Jake Peavy, $11 million
Outfielder Brian Giles, $9 million
Pitcher Chris Young $4.625 million, and
Second baseman David Eckstein, $850,000
And that’s not to mention three others who have been out all (or virtually all) season costing another $1.679 million:
Outfielder Cliff Floyd, $750,000
Pitcher Shawn Hill, $500,000, and
Pitcher Cha Seung Baek, $429,000
All told, these seven veterans are costing the Padres about 60 percent of their payroll for not even playing.
The Padres also traded away their second-best hitter in Scott Hairston ($1.25 million) this week in a further salary dump.
Sadly, this is a team whose only direction seems down … on and off the field.
1 comment:
It is a shame that a team that is so low in payroll has to have so large a percentage of it on the DL. Unfortunately injuries are a fact of life in any professional sports venue but it seems like the injury bug has hit at the stars, as few as they are, of the Padres. This team would be struggling with these players who are on the DL and without them they are where they will more than likely spend most of the remainder of the season, last place in the NL worst.
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