From JOEL SHERMAN

I figured I would give you a look inside the Met payroll today and the Yankee payroll tomorrow. So here are the Mets for 2009 with some explanations to follow: Carlos Beltran — 20,071,429

Johan Santana — 20,000,000

Carlos Delgado — 12,000,000

Oliver Perez — 12,000,000

Billy Wagner — 10,500,000

Francisco Rodriguez — 9,166,667

David Wright — 7,750,000

Luis Castillo — 6,250,000

Jose Reyes — 6,125,000

J.J. Putz — 6,000,000

Brian Schneider — 4,900,000

Ryan Church — 2,800,000

Ramon Castro — 2,625,000

John Maine — 2,600,000

Tim Redding — 2,250,000

Mike Pelfrey — 2,020,000

Alex Cora — 2,000,000

Fernando Tatis — 1,700,000

Pedro Feliciano — 1,612,500

Scott Schoeneweis — 1,600,000

Marlon Anderson — 1,150,000

Livan Hernandez — 1,100,000

Jeremy Reed — 925,000

Angel Pagan — 575,000

Sean Green — 471,000

Brian Stokes — 409,500

Darren O’Day — 406,000

Nick Evans — 403,000

Daniel Murphy — 401,000

Bobby Parnell — 400,000

Duaner Sanchez — 276,639

TOTAL — $140,487,735

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