With CC Sabathia reporting to Yankees Spring Training at a whopping 305 pounds, I thought it would be a swell idea to compare collective team weights of all five AL East clubs. Our very own mastermind, Jake English, suggested something even better, comparing dollars per pound.

This recommendation led me to a soul searching journey through Microsoft Excel. I have shortened each team to the 25-man format using each team’s respective depth chart and a little bit of common sense. A majority of the contract numbers were found on Baseball Prospectus’ ‘Cot’s Baseball Contracts’ with other being outliers that I will point out. All the measurements are from the team websites and I’m sure they are from last year, mainly because Sabathia’s weight has not been updated. I also did not round out the number as I wanted to leave the data in its purest form. Without further ado, I present to you my Sunday night.

Baltimore Orioles

/* – I used Clevenger instead of Joseph because I could not find Joseph’s contract numbers. I imagine it would be the league minimum of 500,000, but I’m not sure.

Boston Red Sox

/* – League minimum

/** – No way David Ortiz is only 230 pounds, even if that measurement is a year out of date. That would make him lighter than me. But to be fair I left it alone.

New York Yankees

Tampa Bay Rays

/* – League minimum

Toronto Blue Jays

/* – League minimum

As you can see, the Rays have the cheapest price per pound, which shouldn’t stun anyone.

Surprisingly, the Blue Jays just barely edge out the Orioles in price per pound, mainly due to the fact that they are tied with the Rays with most players at league minimum salary (six players). That’s probably due to the perception that the Jays are big spenders after the blockbuster Miami trade.

The player with the highest price per pound was Jacoby Ellsbury at 108,424.90 dollars, which is surprising at first but once you realize he’s listed at 195 and making 21+ million a year, it’s understandable.

What can be inferred from this data? In my opinion, almost nothing. This is a very arbitrary breakdown of weight and money of a baseball fan on a Sunday night. Take it for what you will.