This is how much Royals players would earn under owners’ proposed salary structure
Math is a big part of baseball. Whether it’s figuring a pitcher’s ERA or a player’s OPB, it’s best to have a calculator on hand.
Ditto for determining how much Major League Baseball players would be paid under the plan proposed by owners.
As ESPN’s Jeff Passan reported, the owners want the players to play for a percentage of their salary, which would be pro-rated for an 82-game season.
Here is how Passan broke it down with an example of Mike Trout under the tiered plan:
Players immediately rejected the idea once it went public. Nationals pitcher Max Scherzer, the former Mizzou star, tweeted that a second paycut wasn’t going to be acceptable.
In March, the players’ union and owners reached agreement on a deal that would pay them based on games played. The owners have said that agreement didn’t factor in games without fans.
So the two sides are trying to reach a deal to start the season.
“This is not our goal to have this public,” Whit Merrifield said Wednesday on “Cody & Gold” on KCSP (610 AM). “Fans should just be concerned with the game and watching the game and enjoying the game and rooting for your team.
“It’s up to us to handle the business behind the scenes. There’s an ugly side of the business of the game, and that’s kind of what we’re going through now, and we never wanted this to be public. But obviously there is a strategic element to the other side as far as making it public, to sort of put pressure on players and sort of turn fans against players.”
Under the owners’ plan, Merrifield would be paid $1,429,236, or 28.6% of his salary. That was figured under the tiered plan Passan outlined:
$256,706 for the first $563,501 (90% of his pay for pro-rated games)
$160,185 from the $563,502 to $1 million tier (72.5% of his pay for pro-rated games)
$1,012,345 from the $1,000,001 to $5 million tier (50% of his pay for pro-rated games)
Here is how much the rest of the Royals would be paid using the base salary figures for the Royals at Spotrac:
Ian Kennedy $16.5 million salary cut to $3,428,618
Danny Duffy $15.25 million salary cut to $3,238,804
Salvador Perez $13 million* salary cut to $2,897,136
Jorge Soler $7.3 cut salary to $2,036,643
Whit Merrifield $5 million salary cut to $1,429,236
Alex Gordon $4 million salary cut to $1,176,150
Mike Montgomery $3.1 million salary cut to $948,372
Maikel Franco $2.95 million salary cut to $910,409
Trevor Rosenthal $2 million salary cut to $669,977
Greg Holland $1.25 cut salary to $480,162
Scott Barlow $650,000 salary cut to $288,449
Brad Keller $613,000 salary cut to $274,871
Hunter Dozier $610,500 salary cut to $273,954
Jakob Junis $608,000 salary cut to $273,036
Adalberto Mondesi $604,500 salary cut to $271,752
Glenn Sparkman $604,500 salary cut to $271,752
Jorge Lopez $586,750 salary cut to $265,238
Tim Hill $585,750 salary cut to $264,871
Cam Gallagher $580,500 salary cut to $262,944
Ryan O’Hearn $576,950 salary cut to $261,642
Randy Rosario $575,175 salary cut to $260,990
Nicky Lopez $571,250 salary cut to $259,550
Brett Phillips $569,625 salary cut to $258,953
Bubba Starling $568,250 salary cut to $258,449
Josh Staumont $565,900 salary cut to $257,605
Ryan McBroom $564,775 salary cut to $257,174
*Perez’s $1.2 million signing bonus wouldn’t be affected
