Maddon top skipper by ’18 salary
After helping the Cubs win the World Series in 2016, manager Joe Maddon received a 20 percent salary increase — bumping his yearly earnings from $5 million to $6 million per season — for the final three years of his contract, which expires after the 2019 season. That pay increase made him the highestpaid manager in the majors last season.
One season later, Maddon remains at the top of the pay scale among major-league managers. A USA Today report, which ranked managers by their 2018 salaries, was released Monday and showed that Maddon and White Sox skipper Rick Renteria are on opposite ends of the wage spectrum.
Maddon’s $6 million salary, which ties him with the Angels’ Mike Scioscia and the Giants’ Bruce Bochy for the highest among managers this season, is five times more than Renteria will earn in 2018. According to the report, Renteria will take home $1.2 million this season.
Maddon, Scioscia and Bochy — all of whom have won World Series — are in a league of their own when it comes to their paychecks. They will make $2 million more this season than the $4 million the Indians’ Terry Francona and the Orioles’ Buck Showalter, who are tied for fourth, will make.
Other notable salaries in the report include the Brewers’ Craig Counsell, who’ll make $1.5 million, and the Dodgers’ Dave Roberts, who’ll make $1 million.
Former Cubs bench coach Dave Martinez, who was hired as the Nationals’ manager after last season, will earn $850,000. That’s the fourth-lowest salary among managers.