By John Lindsay
Scripps Howard News Service
Baseball's All-Star Game offers time to reflect on what's happened so far this season.
It's also an opportunity to examine who is really earning their money around Major League Baseball. And with the average player salary at $3.26 million (a nearly 300-percent increase from 15 years ago) along with 25 players making $14 million or more, it's imperative that teams not named the Yankees or Red Sox spend their money wisely.
Sadly, many don't. With that in mind, here's our annual look at MLB's overpaid and underpaid teams (2009 salaries in parenthesis). And brace yourself, the ongoing recession makes these paychecks even harder to swallow.
(Click to see each player, by position, on our Most Overpaid and Most Underpaid teams, along with photos and current stats. Agree or disagree? Post a comment below to offer your own names for the list.)
