Yankee closer Chapman $331,190 per inning for 3.53% of innings.

Yankee general manager Brian Cashman signed Aroldis Chapman for five years 2017-2021 at $17,000,000 per year. Chapman's innings pitched in the first two years: 50.33 and 51.33. His career high: 71.66 for Cincinnati in 2012; almost 5% of the Reds innings.

Yankees main starting and relief pitchers in 2018:

Pos	Name	IP%	IP	Sal	Sal/IP	Age	W	L	W-L%	ERA	ERA+
SP	Luis Severino	13.15%	191.33	$604,975	$3,162	24	19	8	.704	3.39	129
SP	Masahiro Tanaka	10.72%	156	$22,000,000	$141,026	29	12	6	.667	3.75	116
SP	CC Sabathia*	10.52%	153	$10,000,000	$65,359	37	9	7	.563	3.65	120
SP	Sonny Gray	8.96%	130.33	$6,500,000	$49,873	28	11	9	.550	4.90	89
SP	Domingo German	5.89%	85.66		$0	25	2	6	.250	5.57	79
SP	J.A. Happ*	4.38%	63.66		$0	35	7	0	1.000	2.69	163
CL	Aroldis Chapman*	3.53%	51.33	$17,000,000	$331,190	30	3	0	1.000	2.45	179
RP	Chad Green	5.20%	75.66	$570,800	$7,544	27	8	3	.727	2.50	175
RP	David Robertson	4.79%	69.66	$13,000,000	$186,621	33	8	3	.727	3.23	136
RP	Dellin Betances	4.58%	66.66	$5,100,000	$76,508	30	4	6	.400	2.70	162
RP	Jonathan Holder	4.54%	66	$553,850	$8,392	25	1	3	.250	3.14	140

Chapman threw the fewest innings and lowest percent of total innings (3.53%), was second only to Tanaka, who pitched three times as many innings, in salary and had by far the highest salary per innings pitched: $331,190 per inning.

Chapman is the closer. Yippie! Can those 51 innings possibly be that valuable? An inning is an inning. For the last 100 years pretty much any pitcher can protect a lead in the 9th inning. It doesn't have to be Aroldis Chapman or Mariano Rivera. It's the lead that counts, not the pitcher.

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That's finally being understood. Except some general managers like Cashman can't seem to break the habit of grossly overpaying for a closer.

How the heck does that make any sense: $331,190 per inning? Forty percent of a $200,000,000 team payroll for pitchers is $80,000,000. For about 1,450 team innings divided by $80,000,000 = about $55,200 per inning. And that's for a very high team payroll.

Chapman is soaking up 21% of the pitching money for 3.5% of the innings.

How does Cashman get away with nonsense like this? Does Hal Steinbrenner ever do a performance review of Cashman? Ever?