With all the dollars and little sense being thrown around in baseball these days, it’s hard to fathom that a top player is playing at bargain price for a team.
Like youngsters Jason Heyward or Mike Stanton, or closers like Neftali Feliz and Andrew Bailey. Not to mention two top starting pitchers in the game.
But it does happen, and the teams that find themselves with a star player for chump change have good chances of making the playoffs, if not the World Series.
A lot of these players will eventually get paid down the road, but for now they are baseball’s greatest bargains.
Here are the top 25 underpaid players in the baseball.
Note: The minimum salary for a player in Major League Baseball is $400,000.