Phillies Players Among Best Paid (In World)

The Philadelphia Phillies last night, July 22, blew a lead in the top of the ninth to the San Francisco Giants when ace reliever Jonathan Papelbon gave up a home run to Buster Posey.

In the bottom of the inning, they squandered a chance for victory when clean-up slugger Ryan Howard struck out with Jimmy Rollins on third with one-out.

The Giants would go on to win 9-6 after 14 innings.

Forbes magazine, last month, published a list of the world’s top paid athletes for 2013. In fairness to Papelbon, he wasn’t on it. Howard was, however, ranking 53 with a income of $22.4 million of which but a mere $700,000 came from endorsements not unsurprisingly.

The top paid Phillie was Cliff Lee coming in at 30 with a salary of $25 million of which $200,000 came from endorsements. Lee has spent most of this season on the disabled list returning Monday to lose to the Giants 7-4.

Cole Hamels is the other Phillie on the world’s top 100 ranking 70th with a salary of $20.7 million of which $200,000 came in endorsements.

The world’s best paid athlete last year was boxer Floyd Mayweather who earned $105 million none of which came in endorsements. He was followed by Portuguese soccer star Christiano Ronaldo who earned $80 million of which $28 million was endorsements and basketball star Lebron James who earned $72.3 million of which $19.3 million came in salary and $53 million came in endorsements.

Imagine that, Howard, Hamels and Lee all have higher salaries than LeBron James.

 

Phillies Players Among Best Paid (In World)

Phillies Players Among Best Paid (In World)

8 thoughts on “Phillies Players Among Best Paid (In World)”

  1. Imagine that! All those fellows getting paid more than you and me and the rest of us put together. But Honey Badger don’t care. He hopes they are all very happy

    1. I Care! I won’t even look at a Mama Dietz’ hot dog. I’ll stick to the ones that Costco sells.

  2. I could never understand why so many people get so excited about a group of unshaven juveniles who are continuously scratching their testicles, It;s gross,

    1. I don’t miss Charlie Manuel. I miss Leopold Stokowski. That was beautiful entertainment. No Mary Lewis, Maestro Stokowski never scratched his balls in public, he just made wonderful music.

  3. The Philadelphia Orchestra was world famous as “The Fabulous Philadelphians” and rightly so.

  4. I’d like to see every major American city field a Hi IQ team where the players use brains instead of brawn. I’d go to see that team play

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