Salary Lost by Team and Year to Time on DL

by Jeff Zimmerman on Mar 1, 2010 12:07 AM EST

Since I have already looked at the salary lost to the DL for individual player totals and teams totals from 2002 to 2009, I will now look at the individual teams by year (injury information from Josh Hermsmeyer at RotoBlog.com) . Looking over the lists the only points I noticed was that the Mets and Dodgers did not do a good job of keeping their high priced players off the DL while the Chicago White Sox did an amazing job. Here is the top 20 teams and bottom 10 by total salary lost (link to a spreadsheet with all the teams and years for reference).

Rank	Team	Year	Salary Lost	Total Salary	Percent of Salary	Total Days	Trips
1	NYM	2009	$54,962,101	$149,373,987	36.8%	1212	15
2	LAD	2008	$54,187,351	$118,588,536	45.7%	1229	15
3	ATL	2008	$42,020,997	$102,365,683	41.0%	1383	17
4	LAD	2005	$34,642,178	$83,039,000	41.7%	1315	15
5	NYM	2003	$31,106,582	$116,876,429	26.6%	823	13
6	NYY	2006	$30,146,569	$194,663,079	15.5%	904	12
7	NYY	2008	$30,023,543	$207,896,789	14.4%	1201	15
8	STL	2008	$29,089,973	$99,624,449	29.2%	1431	18
9	DET	2009	$28,369,717	$115,085,145	24.7%	832	9
10	SFG	2005	$28,003,711	$90,199,500	31.0%	450	8

Rank	Team	Year	Salary Lost	Total Salary	Percent of Salary	Total Days	Trips
11	NYM	2008	$27,458,235	$137,793,376	19.9%	1429	14
12	TEX	2002	$27,378,780	$105,526,122	25.9%	1282	14
13	ARI	2002	$27,114,166	$102,819,999	26.4%	1148	17
14	LAA	2009	$26,958,806	$113,709,000	23.7%	756	11
15	CHC	2006	$26,468,356	$94,424,499	28.0%	919	11
16	TEX	2004	$26,038,966	$55,050,417	47.3%	1496	18
17	NYM	2004	$25,330,376	$96,660,970	26.2%	1052	15
18	OAK	2007	$25,001,583	$79,366,940	31.5%	1111	14
19	ATL	2006	$24,891,291	$90,156,876	27.6%	1286	14
20	SEA	2009	$24,353,463	$98,904,166	24.6%	1030	14

231	PIT	2007	$1,724,722	$38,537,833	4.5%	381	7
232	STL	2004	$1,454,389	$83,228,333	1.7%	397	5
233	CHA	2005	$1,418,144	$75,178,000	1.9%	215	6
234	TB	2005	$1,385,350	$29,679,067	4.7%	511	10
235	CHW	2002	$1,235,731	$57,052,833	2.2%	175	5
236	MON	2002	$1,187,417	$38,670,500	3.1%	375	7
237	CHW	2009	$1,070,222	$96,068,500	1.1%	284	6
238	TB	2004	$904,778	$29,556,667	3.1%	252	4
239	CHW	2003	$778,056	$51,010,000	1.5%	118	4
240	FLO	2006	$533,817	$14,998,500	3.6%	189	5

Besides total amount lost, here are the leaders and laggards in Percent of Salary lost.

Rank	Team	Year	Percent of Salary	Salary Lost	Total Salary	Total Days	Trips
1	CLE	2003	48.4%	$23,498,650	$48,584,834	1317	14
2	TEX	2004	47.3%	$26,038,966	$55,050,417	1496	18
3	TB	2003	46.0%	$9,024,444	$19,630,000	599	10
4	LAD	2008	45.7%	$54,187,351	$118,588,536	1229	15
5	LAD	2005	41.7%	$34,642,178	$83,039,000	1315	15
6	ATL	2008	41.0%	$42,020,997	$102,365,683	1383	17
7	NYM	2009	36.8%	$54,962,101	$149,373,987	1212	15
8	WAS	2008	36.8%	$20,213,772	$54,961,000	1259	16
9	SD	2009	35.3%	$15,289,962	$43,333,700	798	10
10	DET	2002	34.5%	$18,980,375	$55,048,000	1275	12

231	MON	2002	3.1%	$1,187,417	$38,670,500	375	7
232	TB	2004	3.1%	$904,778	$29,556,667	252	4
233	TOR	2006	2.6%	$1,829,939	$71,365,000	339	6
234	SEA	2006	2.4%	$2,106,361	$87,959,833	278	5
235	SF	2007	2.2%	$2,000,156	$90,219,056	318	6
236	CHW	2002	2.2%	$1,235,731	$57,052,833	175	5
237	CHW	2005	1.9%	$1,418,144	$75,178,000	215	6
238	STL	2004	1.7%	$1,454,389	$83,228,333	397	5
239	CHW	2003	1.5%	$778,056	$51,010,000	118	4
240	CHW	2009	1.1%	$1,070,222	$96,068,500	284	6