How Much Will Reyes’ Injuries Cost Him?: At Fangraphs, Jeff Zimmerman compares the contract value Jose Reyes should expect to that which a more durable player (with the same rate stats) would get.

How Much Will — and Should — Chris Johnson Be Paid?: On the “how much will he paid?” front, TBL’s Jason Lisk says that CJ had better not expect Larry Fitzgerald money. Meanwhile, Brian Burke writes about the true value in wins of a boom-and-bust back like Johnson.

BP’s Compensation Pages: Baseball Prospectus has incorporated data from Cot’s Baseball Contracts into their player cards.

Correlation is not causation (no matter how much you want to use regression to ignore otherwise): Tom Tango explains why studies that run the correlation between single-season payroll and win% are fundamentally flawed.

NBA Owners Do Not Understand Competitive Balance: At the Wages of Wins Journal, David Berri analyzes a statement from the owners that seems to be contradicted by recent league history.

The Trade Deadline Money Trail: At BP, Jeff Euston looks into how much payroll each team added or subtracted at the trade deadline.

What MLB Team’s Off-season Investments Look Good?: BtB’s Bill Petti looks at the ROI provided by each team’s 2010-11 free agent signings. Also: For more Petti, read Dave Gershman’s interview with Bill today.

The Pirates and Indians win with cheap relief ($): At ESPN Insider, Dan Szymborski examines the relationship between the salaries a team spends on its bullpen and the WAR that bullpen produces.

Has the NBA Salary Cap resulted in greater competitive balance?: From The Courtside Analyst, a look at whether the NBA’s competitive balance has actually improved during the salary cap era.

2011 Free Agents that have Already Earned their Money: BtB’s Bill Petti lists the 2010-11 free agents who, through just 60% of the season, already have Fangraphs WAR-estimated valuations equal to or better than their 2011 salaries.

NFL free agents you meet in hell: At Grantland, Bill Barnwell put together a list of free agent archetypes that almost never produce at a level commensurate with their pay.

The Great Rockie Robbery – Trading Ubaldo Jimenez: At Beyond the Box Score, J.D. Sussman looks at the dollar value of Jimenez as a trade asset, and how much the Yankees (or other suitors) should be willing to part with to acquire Colorado’s ace.

Is the DH Really to Blame for Inflated Payrolls in the American League?: From The Captain’s Blog, a response to yesterday’s Grantland piece about the economic effects of the DH.

Best Free Agent Position Player Bargains: At the Baseball Reality Tour, Bobby Aguilera ranks the best offseason free agent position players according to $/WAR. (This article theoretically included position players, but in practice only listed pitchers.)

Players Making the Highest Percentage of Team Payroll: Neil Paine of B-R lists the players whose salaries represent the biggest chunks of their teams’ payrolls.

What The Top 100 in the NFL Would Look Like If It Was Based on Pay: Jason Lisk of The Big Lead compares the distribution of the Top 100 of 2011 to that of the players with the 100 biggest cap hits.

Do you get what you pay for?: From Broad Street Hockey’s Eric T., graphs showing the correlation between a forward’s points per game average and his cap hit, as well as the correlation between a goalie’s save % and cap hit.

2012 Positional Free Agents Set to Make Some Coin: Bill Petti of BtB graphs, then discusses, the 2012 free agents whose 2011 WAR performances should earn the biggest paydays.

2011 Overpaid Players: Andres Alvarez of the Wages of Wins now lists players who are glad Wins Produced isn’t being used to divvy up salaries.

2010-11 Top Underpaid Players (*according to wins produced): At The Wages of Wins, a list of players who really wish salaries were handed out according to wins produced.

Lee v. Werth – 2011 Year to Date: The Good Phight looks at salary vs. WAR for the Cliff Lee & Jayson Werth, the 2 players Philly had to choose between last winter.

The Effect of £XI on Match Outcome: Zach Slaton of A Beautiful Numbers Game invites you to check out his regression model that predicts match outcomes based on home-pitch and the transfer cost ratios of each starting eleven.

How Much Money Is Matt Kemp Earning Himself?: Mike Scioscia’s tragic illness takes a look at the kind of payday Kemp is going to get if he keeps up his monster pace so far in 2011.

Salary and contracts of NBA coaches: A ton of data, since 2004, from Weak Side Awareness.

Comparing the Top 100 Salaries from MLS and Europe: On Football’s Sarah Rudd compared the top earners in MLS to their European counterparts.

A Few More MLS Salary Statistics: More research on MLS salaries from A Beautiful Numbers Game.

Point production versus salary: Which Flyers were overpaid? Broad Street Hockey investigates.

Economics of Baseball: The Orioles’ shopping spree revisited: Peter Hjort of Beyond the Box Score evaluates the early returns on Baltimore’s offseason.

Jose Bautista Is a Massive Bargain: Dave Cameron of Fangraphs writes about how good Toronto’s five-year, $65 million Bautista extension looks now.

ESPN’s Justin Havens says Milwaukee is following ‘The Tulo Way’ by extending Braun. But Dan Szymborski and Dave Cameron are wondering if the Brewers just made a big mistake.

For an upcoming story in The Mag, ESPN researched each country’s highest-paid athlete. Link