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There are worse teams than one full of minor league scrubs making no money
C Russell Martin (32, 5 yrs/$82M)
1B Albert Pujols (35, 7 yrs/$189M)
2B Robinson Cano (32, 7 yrs /$168M then a $2M buyout)
3B Alex Rodriguez (39, 3 yrs/$61M)
SS Elvis Andrus (26, 8 yrs/$118M)
LF Carl Crawford (33, 3 yrs/$62.25)
CF Jacoby Ellsbury (31, 6 yrs/$126.86M)
RF Shin-Soo Choo (32, 6 yrs/$116M)
SP Max Scherzer (30, 7 yrs/$210M)
SP Justin Verlander (32, 5 yrs/$140M)
SP Homer Bailey (28, 5 yrs/$91M)
SP Matt Cain (30, 3 yrs/$60M then a $7.5M buyout)
SP James Shields (33, 4 yrs/$73M)
$232.6M payroll & didn't even give you any overpaid guys on the bench, at DH or in the pen. Plus, the salaries for those 13 guys jump to well over $250M the next season
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