Those Dang Yankees

I was going through the latest issue of Sporting News and I found a few notes I thought were worth pointing out in the world of baseball.
Assuming you have a starting 9, including a DH and a closer, the SN put together a team of individuals with the highest salary for 2009.
Ironically, 5 of those 11 were players who are playing for the New York Yankees -- a sixth, Gary Sheffield, was a Yankee in the past. Those players included Mark Teixeira, Derek Jeter, Alex Rodriguez, Jorge Posada and Mariano Rivera.
The only none Yankees on the list included Carlos Lee of Houston, Carlos Beltran of the Mets, Magglio Ordonez of Detroit, Johan Santana of the Mets, Chase Utley of the Phils and now current Tiger Sheffield.

The Yankees infield of Teixeira, Robinson Cano, Jeter and Rodriguez has a salary of $78 million in 2009. Posada makes $13.1 mill and Rivera brings in $15 million a year. That is more than double the payroll of a 1/3 of the teams in major league baseball and that is just for six players.
Amazing.