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2019 New York Mets

30 total players, $157,052,231 total salary, $5,235,074 avg salary

Player	Pos	Salary	Pct	WARP	WARP/$M	$/WARP
Yoenis Céspedes	DNP	$29,000,000	18.47%	—	—	—
Robinson Canó	2B	$19,000,000	12.10%	0.01	0.00	$3,186,876,777
David Wright	DNP	$15,000,000	9.55%	—	—	—
Jacob deGrom	SP	$9,500,000	6.05%	8.44	0.89	$1,125,747
Todd Frazier	3B	$9,000,000	5.73%	2.85	0.32	$3,153,237
Juan Lagares	CF	$9,000,000	5.73%	-0.94	—	—
Jed Lowrie	PH	$8,500,000	5.41%	-0.13	—	—
Wilson Ramos	C	$8,250,000	5.25%	1.84	0.22	$4,472,393
Jason Vargas	SP	$8,000,000	5.09%	0.78	0.10	$10,210,984
Jeurys Familia	RP	$6,666,667	4.24%	-0.34	—	—
Noah Syndergaard	SP	$6,000,000	3.82%	5.12	0.85	$1,172,780
Zack Wheeler	SP	$5,975,000	3.80%	4.78	0.80	$1,250,400
Justin Wilson	RP	$5,000,000	3.18%	0.78	0.16	$6,395,375
Michael Conforto	RF	$4,025,000	2.56%	4.87	1.21	$826,555
Travis d'Arnaud	C	$3,515,000	2.24%	-0.28	—	—
Steven Matz	SP	$2,625,000	1.67%	2.88	1.10	$911,981
Edwin Díaz	RP	$607,425	0.39%	1.51	2.49	$401,532
Brandon Nimmo	CF	$598,285	0.38%	1.39	2.33	$429,238
Seth Lugo	RP	$591,875	0.38%	2.32	3.91	$255,603
Robert Gsellman	RP	$582,500	0.37%	0.46	0.80	$1,253,227
Amed Rosario	SS	$575,500	0.37%	2.96	5.14	$194,539
Keon Broxton	LF	$571,765	0.36%	-0.42	—	—
Jeff McNeil	LF	$567,714	0.36%	3.49	6.14	$162,840
J.D. Davis	LF	$561,420	0.36%	3.09	5.51	$181,450
Dominic Smith	PH	$559,320	0.36%	1.26	2.26	$443,437
Drew Smith	DNP	$557,500	0.35%	—	—	—
Tomás Nido	C	$556,300	0.35%	-0.15	—	—
Luis Guillorme	PH	$555,960	0.35%	0.11	0.20	$5,039,978
Tim Peterson	RP	$555,000	0.35%	-0.00	—	—
Pete Alonso	1B	$555,000	0.35%	5.97	10.76	$92,895

Player	Pos	Salary	Pct	WARP	WARP/$M	$/WARP	Current Status
Noah Syndergaard	DNP	$29,000,000	18.47%	-0.94	10.76	$3,186,876,777

Year	Mets payroll	Avg payroll	Diff
1992	$2,950,000	$2,356,071	$593,929
1993	$3,000,000	$3,410,000	$-410,000
1994	$3,883,333	$3,911,904	$-28,571
1995	$4,883,333	$5,208,333	$-325,000
1996	$5,133,333	$4,583,416	$549,917
1999	$8,871,429	$7,867,823	$1,003,606
2000	$79,449,762	$57,491,092	$21,958,670
2001	$93,043,928	$67,120,750	$25,923,178
2002	$91,995,260	$69,204,705	$22,790,555
2003	$117,324,763	$72,156,639	$45,168,124
2004	$95,283,804	$71,426,357	$23,857,447
2005	$100,563,370	$73,628,169	$26,935,201
2006	$102,337,140	$81,192,832	$21,144,308
2007	$116,683,000	$85,747,487	$30,935,513
2008	$137,759,000	$93,079,041	$44,679,959
2009	$153,550,596	$92,957,049	$60,593,547
2010	$127,098,096	$94,957,956	$32,140,140
2011	$142,797,167	$97,426,414	$45,370,753
2012	$94,508,922	$100,689,500	$-6,180,578
2013	$93,684,590	$106,658,387	$-12,973,797
2014	$84,951,365	$115,428,670	$-30,477,305
2015	$101,344,283	$125,458,486	$-24,114,203
2016	$135,188,085	$130,290,910	$4,897,175
2017	$154,437,460	$136,573,000	$17,864,460
2018	$150,558,844	$135,681,867	$14,876,977
2019	$157,052,231	$134,776,225	$22,276,006
2020	$170,725,429	$138,321,485	$32,403,944
2021	$215,623,963	$129,635,938	$85,988,025
2022	$278,683,333	$147,002,411	$131,680,922
2023	$359,669,166	$158,155,877	$201,513,289
2024	$286,854,409	$133,074,721	$153,779,688
2025	$138,459,294	$94,180,059	$44,279,235
2026	$101,577,765	$74,818,461	$26,759,304
2027	$87,827,765	$56,972,319	$30,855,446
2028	$54,600,000	$45,437,759	$9,162,241
2029	$54,600,000	$37,269,628	$17,330,372
2030	$54,600,000	$39,665,769	$14,934,231
2031	$34,100,000	$38,360,152	$-4,260,152

Year	Mets payroll	Avg payroll	Diff
1992	$117,324,763	$100,689,500	$-12,973,797

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