HAPPY LABOR DAY WEEKEND CARD FANS-JUST WHAT DO OUR CARDS EARN FOR THEIR LABOR?

Well, Card fans here is your Labor Day weekend special.  After two frozen computers, one before I started this epic undertaking and another after I had figured the starting players salary per game, (no you will not see that data as it was lost after the second BIG FREEZE)

After screaming, scaring my dog Coco out of her mind, and minor MAJOR profanity, I carefully and with great reasoning decided not to redo that part.

Here are some of my own opinions and observations of the salaries of our Cards in comparison to the “labor” they produce. While it is my opinion that no athlete, musician or actor are worth what they are paid, in relation to the value they provide to our society, I will set that little argument over to the side for another day.

Most of our Cards are worth what they are paid. Several are tremendously overpaid as to the labor they provide the team and several are huge bargains.

Those that are overpaid in my opinion are:

Matt Holliday-$17 million per year. That’s $114,465 per hit, $204,819 per RBI, $217,949 per run and $708,333 per HR.

Kyle Loshe-$8.875 million per year. That’s $147,917 per inning, $986,111 per game and a cool $4,437,500 per win.

Brad Penny-$7.5 million per year. That’s $136,364 per inning, $625,000 per game and a nice round $2,500,000 per win.

Those that are bargains are:

 Adam Wainwright -$4.65 million per year. That's $23,846 per inning, $166,071 per game, and a bargain $273,529 per win.

Colby Rasmus- 2^nd year - $418,000. That's $4,400 per hit, $7,741 per RBI, $6,333 per run and a measly $22,o0o per HR.

Jaime Garcia-rookie-$400,000. That's $2,614 per inning, $15,385 per game and a Wal-Mart special of $30, 769 per win. 

Jon Jay-rookie-$400,000. That's $5,634 per hit, $15,385 per RBI, $11,430 per run, and a cheapo $100,000 per HR. 

Albert Pujols- $16 million per year. I don’t care what he’s paid, he’s worth it!!!!!

Here is the salary information of our Cards. Thanks to the website Cot's Baseball Contracts for all the salary information.

 

HAPPY LABOR DAY, CARD FANS 

St Louis Cards Salaries

Cards on Opening Day 2010

Matt Holliday lf
7 years/$120M (2010-16), plus 2017 option

re-signed by St. Louis as a free agent 1/10

10-16: $17M annually, 17:$17M club option ($1M buyout)

Albert Pujols 1b
7 years/$100M (2004-10), plus 2011 club option

signed extension with St. Louis 2/19/04 (avoided arbitration, $10.5M-$7M)

04:$7M, 05:$11M, 06:$14M, 07:$15M, 08:$16M, 09:$16M, 10:$16M, 11:$16M club option ($5M buyout)

Chris Carpenter rhp
5 years/$63.5M (2007-11), plus 2012 club option

signed extension with St. Louis 12/06

07:$8.5M, 08:$10.5M, 09:$14M, 10:$14.5M, 11:$15M, 12:$15M club option

Kyle Lohse rhp
4 years/$41M (2009-12)signed extension 9/29/08                                                             $1.25M signing bonus                                                                                                        09:$7.125M, 10:$8.875M, 11:$11.875M, 12:$11.875M                                                                    full no-trade clause

Brad Penny rhp
1 year/$7.5M (2010)

signed by St. Louis as a free agent 12/7/09

$1.5M in performance bonuses (full amount for 204 IP)

Adam Wainwright rhp
4 years/$15M (2008-11), plus 2012, 2013 club options

signed extension with St. Louis 3/20/08

$0.75M signing bonus

08:$0.5M, 09:$2.6M, 10:$4.65M, 11:$6.5M, 12:$9M club option, 13:$12M club option

Yadier Molina c
4 years/$15.5M (2008-11), plus 2012 club option

re-signed by St. Louis 1/20/08 (avoided arbitration, $2.75M-$1.85M)

$0.25M signing bonus

08:$1.75M, 09:$3.25M, 10:$4.25M, 11:$5.25M, 12:$7M club option ($0.75M buyout)

Ryan Franklin rhp
2 years/$6.5M (2010-11)

signed extension with St. Louis 9/1/09

Skip Schumaker 2b-of
2 years/$4.7M (2010-11)

re-signed by St. Louis 2/8/10 (avoided arbitration, $2.75M-$1.45M)

10:$2M, 11:$2.7M

Trever Miller lhp
2 years/$4M (2009-10), plus 2011 option

signed re-worked extension with St. Louis 9/1/09, replacing 1 year/$0.5M deal 2009

09:$2M, 10:$2M, 11:$2M option

Dennys Reyes lhp
2 years/$3M (2009-10)

signed by St. Louis as a free agent 3/5/09

09:$1M, 10:$2M

Jason LaRue c
1 year/$0.95M (2010)

re-signed by St. Louis as a free agent 11/30/09

Kyle McClellan rhp
1 year/$0.425M (2010)

re-signed by St. Louis 3/4/10

Brendan Ryan inf
1 year/$0.425M (2010)

re-signed by St. Louis 3/4/10

Colby Rasmus of
1 year/$0.418M (2010)

re-signed by St. Louis 3/4/10

Jason Motte rhp
1 year/$0.411M (2010)

re-signed by St. Louis 3/4/10

Jaime Garcia lhp
1 year/$0.4M (2010)

re-signed by St. Louis 3/4/10

no award bonus for Rookie of the Year listed

Tyler Greene ss
1 year (2010)

re-signed by St. Louis 3/4/10

year/$0.4M (2009) contract purchased by St. Louis 11/20/08

re-signed by St. Louis 1/30/09

award bonus: $10,000 for Rookie of the Year

Jon Jay of
1 year (2010)

contract purchased by St. Louis 11/18/09

$0.4M re-signed by St. Louis 3/4/10

$0.48M signing bonus

Matt Pagnozzi c
1 year (2010)

$0.4M re-signed by St. Louis 3/4/10

$.0.105M signing bonus

Fernando Salas rhp
1 year (2010)

$0.4M contract purchased by St. Louis 5/27/10

Nick Stavinoha of
1 year/$0.4M (2010)

re-signed by St. Louis 3/4/10

$15,000 signing bonus

Joe Mather of
1 year/$0.4M (2010)

re-signed by St. Louis 3/4/10

$0.375M signing bonus

Adam Ottavino rhp
1 year (2010)

$0.4M re-signed by St. Louis

$0.95M signing bonus

Cards Added Throughout the 2010 Season

Jeff Suppan rhp
4 years/$42M (2007-10), plus 2011 club option                                                                        signed by St. Louis as a free agent 6/14/10 (Cardinals pay pro-rated portion of major-league minimum, with Brewers paying balance of 2010 salary)                                   

07:$6M, 08:$8M, 09:$12.5M, 10:$12.5M, 11:$12.75M club option ($2M buyout)

Jake Westbrook rhp
3 years/$33M (2008-10)

08:$10M, 09:$10M, 10:$11M

acquired by St. Louis in trade with Cleveland and San Diego 7/31/10 (Westbrook agreed to reduction of assignment bonus and Indians paid Cardinals an undisclosed amount of cash as part of the deal)

Pedro Feliz 3b
1 year/$4.5M (2010)

signed by Houston as a free agent 12/10/09

acquired by St. Louis in trade from Houston 8/19/10

Aaron Miles inf
2 years/$4.9M (2009-10)

signed by Cubs as a free agent 12/31/08

09:$2.2M, 10:$2.7M

signed by St. Louis as a free agent 4/27/10 (minor-league contract)

contract purchased by St. Louis 6/1/10

Randy Winn of
1 year/$1.1M (2010)

signed by NY Yankees as a free agent 2/8/10

signed by St. Louis as a free agent 6/5/10                                                                                      Cardinals pay pro-rated portion of $0.4M ML minimum

Felipe Lopez inf
1 year/$1M (2010)

signed by St. Louis as a free agent 2/27/10  signed by

St. Louis pays pro-rated portion of $0.39M ML minimum salary, with Washington paying the balance of Lopez' 2008 salary


***Apologies for the lateness of the post, but it will be fun to discuss over the holiday on the twitter. Also apologize for any dangling participles or word or numbers. They look fine in my post, but the Blogger Gremlins keep changing the format. I threw in the towel!