2007 Salaries Released

Oakland, Detroit Bound Team Totals

ANNANDALE, VA- The Molson Baseball League home office this afternoon released player salaries for the 2007 MBL season. Each team is entitled to spend $23 million on salaries, but a few will have their cap reduced as a result of overuse in 2006. The League is expected to announce those penalties later this week.

The top five earners in 2007 will be Oakland's Johann Santana ($2.08 million), St. Louis's Albert Pujols ($2.07 million), the Dodgers' Chris Carpenter ($1.81 million), World Series champion Cleveland's Travis Hafner ($1.76 million), and Houston's Roy Oswalt ($1.73 million). The highest-salaried rookie is reliever Cla Meredith ($995,500).

Roughly half of the MBL teams are over the salary cap, led by Oakland's $26,700,000 payroll. The Detroit Tigers will be looking to add players, sitting at $18,600,000 before any releases.