Sentence examples for second highest payroll from inspiring English sources

"We've had the second highest payroll".

The Rangers last year had the second highest payroll; only the Yankees paid their players more.

Hicks's team also has the second highest payroll for luxury tax purposes, $131.4 million, trailing only the Yankees' $171.2.

The Seahawks have the fifth highest payroll of the 32 teams in the NFL and to keep emerging quarterback star Matt Hasselbeck and offensive tackle Walter Jones happy last summer he gave them signing bonuses worth a combined $36m.

Philadelphia, the third highest payroll at $159 million, did not make the playoffs, either.

The San Francisco Giants won last year with the eighth highest payroll, and in 2011 it was the Cardinals.

The luxury tax that existed for the previous three years under the 1996 labor agreement used a 35percent and 344 percent rate and a floating threshold determined by the average of the fifth and sixth highest payrolls.

"We've got the third-highest payroll.

They began Friday in fifth place, with the N.L.'s second-worst record and third-highest payroll.

The Suns have the league's eighth-highest payroll but are on pace for their worst record in five years.

The team that didn't need the highest payroll in the majors to win the World Series... just the second-highest payroll.