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Which baseball player has the most value for their hitting skills? The Sports Professor Rick Horrow matches the top salaries in baseball, and then divides by the number of home runs they hit last season.
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" this sport professor Rick -- with beyond the box score Major League Baseball home runs and salaries. During a busy free agent season everybody talks about home runs and the yearly salaries we did was match the top ten position players salaries. Divide by the number of home runs to see who is worth more and who was worth less. Number five. Carlos Beltran for eighteen point -- million dollars in salary last year when he seven home runs but 689 grand a home run. Number four Vladimir Guerrero. Fifteen point five billion dollar salary. 574000. Dollars a home run for his 27 home runs. Number three. Manny Ramirez. Nearly nineteen million bucks eighteen point nine. But 37 home runs in both leagues but 511000. Dollars over. Number two Jim Thome fifteen point six million bucks 34 home runs at -- sixty grand a bigger. Finally number one Carlos Delgado. May sixteen million hit 38 of them but ordered 21000. Dollars a home run. A great spot but consider this Ryan Howard not in the top ten in terms of position player earning ten million bucks. But he hit 48 home runs last year were about quarter to 8000 dollars a home run now that's a bargain. I'm Rick RO -- beyond the box."