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Angels, Dodgers trail Yankees in average player salaries

By Mike James
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The Angels and Dodgers are among the top five teams in Major League Baseball ... at least in terms of the players’ average annual salaries.

Figures released today by the MLB Players Assn. show the average major league salary for 2008 was $2.93 million. That is a 3.6% increase over a year ago, but also is the smallest year-to-year increase since 2004.

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Not surprisingly, the New York Yankees easily topped the list with a $6.86-million average salary, followed by the Chicago Cubs at $4.68 million, the Angels at $4.37 million, the Chicago White Sox at $4.5 million and the Dodgers at $4.37.

Now, things could change if the Dodgers can somehow manage to hold onto Manny Ramirez and actually have to pay his contract next season.

-- Mike James

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Mike James

Mike James is a former Sports editor of the Los Angeles Times. A native of suburban Washington, D.C., James came to The Times from the Hartford Courant in 1985, took a hiatus from the print world in 2000 to work as coordinating producer at FoxSports.com and managing editor of the nightly news report on Fox Sports Net. He returned to The Times in 2002 and, after three years as deputy Sports editor, became Sports editor in 2009.

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