How MLB’s new economic plan will affect Yankees and Mets

On Tuesday, Major League Baseball presented the players association with a sliding-scale economic plan for the pandemic-shortened 2020 season by which the highest-paid players would take the biggest pay cut.

For instance, the Yankees’ Gerrit Cole, who earns the highest salary in the majors at $36 million, would see his prorated intake of approximately $18 million (since the schedule will last about half its normal length) sliced the most of anyone. Whereas a rookie making the minimum of $563,500 would receive nearly all of the roughly $282,000 he’s owed. The scale would fill in proportionally between those two extremes: Someone making $20 million would lose more money than someone getting $10 million, and so on.

To get a feel for how this would impact the Yankees and Mets, here’s a breakdown of their 2020 payrolls, going off their current 40-man rosters, by player salary brackets and the top-10 highest-paid 2020 base salaries on each team:

Yankees

• 1 player over $30 million

• 2 players between $20 million and $30 million

• 7 players between $10 million and $20 million

• 4 players between $5 million and $9,999,999

• 3 players between $1 million and $4,999,999

• 23 players under $1 million

Player                         salary

1. Gerrit Cole               $36M

2. Giancarlo Stanton   $26M

3. Masahiro Tanaka     $23M

4. J.A. Happ                 $17M

5. Aroldis Chapman    $15M

Mets

• 0 players over $30 million

• 2 players between $20 million and $30 million

• 4 players between $10 million and $20 million

• 7 players between $5 million and $9,999,999

• 6 players between $1 million and $4,999,99

• 21 players under $1 million

Player                        salary

1. Robinson Cano       $24M

2. Jacob deGrom        $23M

3. Marcus Stroman     $12M

4. Jeurys Familia         $11M

5. Rick Porcello          $10M