Baseball-Reference.com has a pretty cool feature where you can translate a player’s salary for any particular year into current year dollars.
I was curious, so I wanted to see how much the 1986 Mets would be paid in 2013 dollars. This just goes to show how much money has flowed into the game since then… not only at the top end of the spectrum, but at the current MLB minimum as well. Nearly half the roster was making the equivalent of less than the current MLB minimum.
Dillon Gee would be paid more than every player, but George Foster, Gary Carter, and Keith Hernandez. And Lucas Duda is practically asking for Darryl Strawberry money…
George Foster – $5.96M
Gary Carter – $4.6M
Keith Hernandez – $3.51M
Dwight Gooden – $2.81M
Darryl Strawberry – $2.01M
Jesse Orosco – $1.76M
Mookie Wilson – $1.49M
Ray Knight – $1.37M
Lee Mazzilli – $1.3M
Bob Ojeda – $1.17M
Ron Darling – $937K
Danny Heep – $745K
Wally Backman – $692K
Doug Sisk – $586K
Rafael Santana – $500K
Howard Johnson – $484K
Tim Teufel – $426K
Sid Fernandez – $426K
Roger McDowell – $394K
Rick Aguilera – $277K
Lenny Dykstra – $197K
Randy Niemann – $177K
Kevin Mitchell – $128K
Ed Hearn – $128K
Kevin Elster – $128K
