Yesterday was baseball’s opening day, so here’s some baseball related stuff:

Yesterday was the start of the 17th consecutive season that Derek Jeter, Jorge Posada, and Mariano Rivera have played together. No trio in the history of baseball, basketball, football, or hockey have played that long together.

USA Today has a chart listing the highest paid player at each position. Five of the ten players listed are Yankees. I’m surprised it was only five.

USA Today also has an interactive database of team/player salaries. Alex Rodriguez will be paid $32 million this year. The Kansas City Royals entire team payroll this year will be $36 million.

The Mets will begin paying Bobby Bonilla over $1 million a year for the next 25 years, after releasing him in 2000. That’s more than 16 players on their current roster. The Mets have some other financial problems to deal with.

Forbes has a special report on the business of baseball. Unsurprisingly, the Yankees rank number one in total worth with the Red Sox number two and the Mets number three. However, I am surprised that the Yankees, at $1.6 billion (yes, with a ‘B’), are worth almost twice as much as Boston at $870 million.

In 2009, smack in the middle of the worst economy in seven decades, baseball’s 30 franchises turned in a record-high operating income [...]