This is how information spreads these days: A few years ago, Tom Tango developed a model for a baseball injury database based on disabled-list transactions. Last month, Corey Dawkins used that model to post a Baseball Injury Tool where you can see a complete history of injuries for any player since 2002, including the dates he was hurt, his types of injury and the lengths of his stays on the DL, just by entering his name. Josh Hermsmeyer of Rotoblog then took things a giant step further, putting downloadable databases online, so that you or I or anyone can get injury data since 2002 for free and analyze it however we like.

Within a day, Jeff Zimmerman at Beyond the Boxscore used that information to calculate the 100 MLB players who cost their teams the most money while on the disabled list from 2002 to 2009. (No. 1: Mike Hampton, at $51.8 million.) Zimmerman followed that up with a look at which teams have lost the most and least money to injuries over that span. (No.1, by a big margin: the Dodgers, at 27 percent of payroll, or more than $214 million. No. 30: the White Sox, at just 6 percent.)