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Philadelphia, once thought a small-market team, was second at $173 million following the offseason signing of Cliff Lee. The Phillies began last year fourth at $141.9 million but have been given a financial shove by 123 continuous family sellouts during the normal season.

"I'm not worried that it's also cheap," Royals general manager Dayton Moore said. "I look at it as something that gives us tremendous flexibility going ahead as one union to be competitive as we referee for players."
"It's excellent for baseball anytime you obtain teams ambitioning to go out there and enhance their team," he said. "It's great for baseball."
There were 453 players nearly 54 percent of those in the major leagues on Thursday making $1 million or more. That was up from 433 at the start of last season.
Overall, baseball salaries were nearly smooth for this season, which started Thursday. The average salary for the 844 players on opening-day rosters and weakened lists was about $3.3 million, up equitable 0.2 percent from final year. The increase was the lowest since a 2.7 percent drop in 2004.

Yankees first baseman Mark Teixeira isn't perturbed by competition at the top of the costing list.
Boston is third ashore the salary catalogue at $161.4 million, followed at the Los Angeles Angels ($139 million), the Chicago White Sox ($129.3 million), the Chicago Cubs ($125.5 million) and the New York Mets ($120 million). The absolutes don't embody salaries owed released players Carlos Silva ($11.5 million for the Cubs) and Oliver Perez ($12 million) and Luis Castillo ($6.25 million for the Mets).
The Yankees, consist in ..., had the top payroll but dropped to $201.7 million from $206.3 million at the start of last season.
The World Series champion San Francisco Giants are eighth at $118.2 million, up from $97.8 million. The AL champion Texas Rangers rose to 13th at $92.3 million from $55.3 million.

Tampa Bay, the 2008 AL champion, dropped from 21st by $71.9 million apt 29th at $41.9 million, later shedding Carl Crawford, Carlos Pena, Matt Garza and Rafael Soriano. Cleveland fell from $61.2 million to $49.2 million.

Kansas City's payroll was cut in half from $72.3 million at the start of 2010. The Royals traded Zack Greinke,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], and Gil Meche elderly.

"Obviously I don't make the monetary determinations, merely as a manager you surely thankful how ownership stepped up and kept the group intact after a special year to try to give us a chance to do this afresh," Giants director Bruce Bochy said. "I've been on the other end and seen unions dismantled. It's frustrating."

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The Kansas City Royals are merely making more than Alex Rodriguez this year. The salaries for Kansas City's 27 players on its opening-day roster and disability lists total $36.1 million, along to an thinking of major association contracts by The Associated Press.

Pittsburgh's payroll worked up from a important league-low $35 million to 27th at $46 million. San Diego's additional from $37.8 million to $45.9 million.
Fifty-five players make the $414,000 minimum, up from 41 at the minimum last year. The centre salary, the point at which at equal mathematics are upon and underneath, remained at $1.1 million,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], down from a disc $1,125,000 in 2009.

"We wouldn't be here if we didn't have the fans supporting us the course they assisted us," GM Ruben Amaro Jr. said. "It's truly plain and simple: We don't sell out games, we don't give ourselves a chance to be even in this stratosphere."
A-Rod lonely makes $32 million atop the New York Yankees' $201.7 million payroll. He is baseball's highest-paid actor for the 11th straight year.

Behind A-Rod on the list of top-earning players was the Los Angeles Angels' Vernon Wells at $26.6 million, followed by Yankees teammates CC Sabathia ($24.3 million) and Teixeira ($23.1 million), then Minnesota catcher Joe Mauer ($23 million) and impaired Mets pitcher Johan Santana ($21.6 million). Figures include salaries and prorated shares of signing bonuses and other guaranteed proceeds. Fjust aboutme players, chapters of deferred signing bonuses and salaries are discounted to reflect present-day amounts.
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AP Baseball Writer Janie McCauley, and AP Sports Writers Rob Maaddi, Howie Rumberg and Doug Tucker endowed to this report.