Talk:List of highest paid baseball players

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Data after 1985 is verified through research by Doug Pappas, chairman of SABR's Business of Baseball Committee.

  • Mind you, Pappas only gives amounts for each individual year. The lifetime totals were added up by me and my calculator. Kingturtle 00:09, 10 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Any need to mention if retired (some are, aome aren't) --Rj 00:29, Apr 10, 2004 (UTC)

  • I had mentioned which players were retired so readers could see who would be making more money this year, and who wouldn't be. Kingturtle 00:52, 10 Apr 2004 (UTC)

would be interesting to show highest paid indexed to inflation--Confuzion 08:49, 12 Jun 2004 (UTC)

  • If you want to do the math, be our guest :) Kingturtle 05:08, 13 Jun 2004 (UTC)
  • Wow, I just totaled the salaries of the highest 100 MLB players and got $1.175 billion per year. According to the World Bank, that total is higher than the GDP of 28 countries. Synesthetic 11:06, 13 August 2007 (UTC)