Jessica Fletcher - contributing reporter
Let's take a look at where owners are spending their money by position. Bonus money not included. I shouldn't have been, but a little surprised at how few max contracts there are this year; only 4 of them.
Catcher -
- $6.5M - Braulio Guardado - Buffalo
- $6.2M - Roger Herman - New York
- $6M - Will Roth - OKC
- $6M - Roger Sterns - Philly
- $5M - Clif Calderon - Seoul
First Base
- $9.5M - Keith Halter - Columbus
- $8.4M - Omar Gonzalez - Tokyo
- $8.3M - Al Martinez - Chicago
- $6.9M - Yusmeiro Troncoso - Austin
- $6.6M - Alex Tarraga - Buffalo
Second Base
- $20M - Harry Padilla - New York
- $9.9M - Shea Crowe - Chicago
- $9.8M - Matty Moss - Atlanta
- $8.3M - Benny Saez - San Juan
- $7.5M - Roger Stinnett - Dover
Shortstop
- $11.2M - Sammy Figureoa - Austin
- $9M - Yuniesky Tavarez - Santa Fe
- $7.5M - Banjo Urlaub - Pittsburgh
- $7M - Donovan Romano - Santa Fe
- $7M - Alan Harris - Columbus
Third Base
- $9.8M - Bernie Mendez - Buffalo
- $9.3M - Rip Bromberg - Pittsburgh
- $7.3M - Vin Pirela - Philly
- $6.5M - Nick Zoltan - Colorado Springs
- $6.3M - Jhonny Rijo - Chicago
Leftfield
- $11.5M - TJ Christenson - Atlanta
- $9.3M - Yoervis Colome - New York
- $7.5M - Julio Pascual - Pittsburgh
- $7.3M - Drew Ducati - Columbus
- $6.8M - Dicky Chang - Portland
Center Field
- $20M - Anibal Castillo - Columbus
- $8.5M - Cyrus Sisk - Huntington
- $8M - Bonk Burnett - Hartford
- $7.8M - Brandon Stevens - OKC
- $7M - Bey Combs - San Juan
Right Field
- $7.2M - Vic Nova - Colorado Springs
- $7M - Brace Lansing - OKC
- $6.5M - Lou Porzio - Austin
- $6M - Jorge Johnson - Colorado Springs
- $5.8M - Davy Oliver - Boston
Designated Hitter
- $5.9M - Alex Perez - Monterrey
- $5.5M - Paulo Tabata - Philly
- $4.8M - Akinori Yoshii - Seoul
Starting Pitcher
- $20M - Nigel White - Hartford
- $20M - Arismendy Costilla - Colorado Springs
- $18M - William Thompson - New Orleans (Atlanta paid $4M)
- $16M -Louis Combs - New Orleans
- $15M - Onelki Manuel -Dover
Relief Pitcher
- $15.8M - Radhames Machado
- $9M - Marcos Owen - Columbus
- $7.5M - Don Krause - Chicago
- $7.3M - Humberto Lee - Columbus
- $7M - Boone Dowd - Chicago