Brewers 2008 Payroll

The Journal Sentinel was nice enough to break down the salaries of your 2008 Brewers, which I will steal in its entirety.

Milwaukee Brewers 2008 Payroll

LF	Ryan Braun	$455,000
RHP	Dave Bush	$2.55 mil.
CF	Mike Cameron	$6.25 mil.*
LHP	Chris Capuano (DL)	$3.75 mil.
LHP	Randy Choate (DL)	$500,000
INF	Craig Counsell	$2.8 mil.
INF/OF	Joe Dillon	$393,000
1B	Prince Fielder	$670,000
RHP	Eric Gagne	$10 mil.
RHP	Yovani Gallardo (DL)	$404,000
OF	Gabe Gross	$414,000
OF	Tony Gwynn	$397,500
OF	Bill Hall	$4.8 mil.
SS	J.J. Hardy	$2.65 mil.
OF	Corey Hart	$444,000
OF	Gabe Kapler	$800,000
C	Jason Kendall	$4.25 mil.
RHP	Seth McClung	$750,000
RHP	Guillermo Mota	$3.2 mil.
LHP	Manny Parra	$392,000
RHP	David Riske	$4 mil.
C	Mike Rivera	$395,000
RHP	Ben Sheets	$11 mil.
LHP	Brian Shouse	$2 mil.
RHP	Jeff Suppan	$8 mil.
RHP	Salomon Torres	$3.2 mil.
RHP	Derrick Turnbow	$3.2 mil.
RHP	Carlos Villanueva	$413,000
2B	Rickie Weeks	$1.056 mil.
Termination pay		$885,246**
Total	$80.02 mil.

*Cameron's pay includes a $1.25 million signing bonus. His pay will be docked during a 25-game suspension.

**The Brewers paid one-fourth of RHP Claudio Vargas' $3.6 million salary upon releasing him.

That's a lot of value for $80 million. I'd be curious to compare the Brewers' record to the Yankees when the season is over, especially at, what, one-third of the salary.

It's weird to think that Sheets, Suppan, and Gagne are making $29 million of our $80 million. Or that Weeks is making more than Fielder.