Injuries are an unavoidable part of baseball: at the moment, the average major league team has about five players on the disabled list. But not all teams have been affected equally. The Yankees have 11 injured players, the most of any team in the majors, and they are costing the club $23,000 an hour.
In fact, just three players - Alex Rodriguez, Mark Teixeira and Derek Jeter - account for more than $63 million in salaries in 2013 alone, according to data from Baseball Prospectus. In all, the salaries of the players on the Yankees' disabled list exceed $100 million, more than the total payrolls of about half the major league teams. (These woes did not escape The Onion.)
A new graphic shows a running calculation, updated daily, of what Major League Baseball teams are paying players who are on the disabled list. It updates continuously, so you can watch the daily totals tick up for every team in the majors, every day of the 2013 season.
