You don't have to be a professional athlete to be considered overpaid. Sadly, there are plenty of people across a wide spectrum of fields who aren't good at their jobs, much less worthy of the gaudy salaries they collect.
It's easier to pick out those people when they are professional athletes—like baseball players—with multimillion-dollar contracts and single paychecks that dwarf what many people take home in a year.
To be included on our all-overpaid team, a player must have played this season. That takes obvious choices like Boston's Pablo Sandoval and Texas' Josh Hamilton out of the running. But fear not, for there are a number of other qualified candidates.
So how are we going to determine the most overpaid player at each position?
We'll look at a player's 2016 salary and compare it to his FanGraphs value, which puts a dollar figure on what a player's current level of production would be worth on the open market. More details on that can be found here. The biggest difference, or overpayment, wins.
Who wishes they didn't make the cut? Let's take a look.
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