Sentence examples for team payrolls from inspiring English sources
Disparity in team payrolls, the owners say, has created competitive imbalance.
But the same two issues — the division of revenue and controls on team payrolls — derailed the talks every time.
They want to soak the richest owners and redistribute income to poorer teams to level off team payrolls.
Owners also want a hard salary cap to replace the current soft-cap system, and they want team payrolls reduced to $45 million, from $58 million.
But on Monday, the union leaders said they had conceded enough, and rejected the owners' push for still more restraints on free agency and team payrolls.
The team payroll was $259,000, including coaches and trainers.
The Marlins have been last in total team payroll in three of the last four seasons.
Hanson remains on the team payroll but is not involved in coaching.
By contrast, the league's reset offer would include an absolute salary ceiling, set $5 million above the average team payroll.
In 1990, the average team payroll was $17 million and the highest payroll was about three times larger than the smallest.
