In 1990 the Kansas City Royals... (1 Viewer)

[Doctor Detroit]

...had baseball's highest team payroll at 24 million.

This was part of a conversation on Outside the Lines about exploding contracts.

 

[Dr. Awesome]

 

[shadyridr]

Thats pretty insane.

 

[Eephus]

According to this source, the Yankees only had one of the top 62 players in terms of 1990 salaries*

*two if you count Dave Winfield but he was traded away in early May

 

[Encyclopedia Brown]

How much of that was taken up by Buddy Biancalana?

 

[JohnDoe]

Is that the year they gave a ton of money to sign Mark Davis?

 

[Da Guru]

Is that the year they gave a ton of money to sign Mark Davis?

I remember I was bummed when we traded Matt Nokes to the Yankees in 90. After he hit 32 HRs a couple of season earlier I thought we had the next Johnny Bench.

 

[Leroy Hoard]

Isn't that still about what their payroll is?

 

[Kevin Ashcraft]

Is that the year they gave a ton of money to sign Mark Davis?

Yep....they signed Mark & Storm Davis. Both failed miserably here.http://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/KC...90-roster.shtml

Also had given huge deals to Tartabull and Saberhagen.....and Bob Boone of all people.