Final CBT payrolls and taxes. Jays pay $13M in luxury taxes on top of their $286M payroll
December 19, 2025
Final CBT payrolls and taxes. Jays pay $13M in luxury taxes on top of their $286M payroll
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When Dodgers pay more in taxes alone than how much the bottom 12 teams spend on total payroll…
They had a 286M payroll? I thought it was under 281M. Like around 278-279M
That means they crossed into the 3rd Lux Tax Penalty hit
I thought the city of ATH would be lower 🤷‍♂️
169MM in luxury taxes is actually crazy
Pshh. I spent that on hot dogs and beer last
Season.
Man the Mets must have been so good, probably was a dog fight in the NLCS vs the Dodgers
Also I like how it was decided that the Mets are the New York team, and the Yankees had to settle for being the 3 letter abbreviation
Ah yes the two classic New York teams NY and NYY.
It is obscene that the LAD paid *more in tax alone* than the entire payrolls of 12 other teams.
MLB is broken.
I understand the Jays are technically a top 5 salary team, but there’s a massive difference between $300 million and the almost twice as much Dodgers payroll
You could combine the salaries of the bottom 4 teams and remove them from the Dodgers payroll and they would still have enough salary left to be in the top half of the league in payroll.
Jays can cover that with loonie dog sales next year.
What would the tax situation be if both or either Bo and/or Kyle Tucker signed?
If anyone needed convincing that ML Baseball is first and foremost a business, this should do it.
Some guys sell luxury condos other guys rent out low cost housing, some guys build F1 fireballs other guys are happy on the dirt track. Some guys maybe shouldn’t be in business at all.
The one thing these all have in common? The product isn’t baseball, it’s hope.
Unbridled capitalism is what it is.
Yeesh. This league needs parity.
This is incomplete without showing how much the welfare teams receive.
Red Sox ownership is CHEAP.. they should be well into the tax being a large market, but Fenway Sports Group refuses to open the checkbook. It’s bad when even Toronto is spending far more and has committed ownership wanting to contend for a championship – something Boston hasn’t done since Dombrowski left.
Yankees up there as usual – but it’s obvious ownership is not happy losing money at that payroll with the luxury taxes and revenue sharing – hence why they’ve done very little this offseason.
Jays have an “internal” cap/budget of $300MM.
It feels like just yesterday that AA was basically passing the hat in spring training, asking players to renegotiate so they could bring in a 4th starter. Unreal how far we’ve come.
I still look at the list of guys who get non-tendered on MLBTR and think “oh maybe” because, you know, when you grow up poor you always look for a bargain.
Completely insane how the script flipped on Rogers’ commitment to payroll. Absolutely loving being a fan of one of the “big” teams.
Anyway, fuck ED (Erectile Dysfunction) Rogers Jr forever lol but it’s crazy to become a “have” team.
Flags fly forever.
Dodgers made that 169 back or will this year, I bet.
Gotta hand it to the Guardians and Brewers. They still somehow manage to remain competitive and make the playoffs as bottom tier spenders. Speaks well of their drafting and development.
Imagine looking at this and concluding the problem is the top 5 teams and not the bottom 5.
The Jays probably made 13 million in the first 4 innings of the first playoff game. These numbers don’t mean anything.
About 5 billion total in just salaries of all teams. Every year. Divided by 30 teams and the average is roughly 166,666,666 per team. The dodgers pay this amount just in luxury tax. 166,666,666 x 2.5 equals around 416,000,000. Which is the dodgers payroll. The top 10 teams salaries make up roughly 3 billion of the 5 billion total salaries of 30 teams. The dodgers pay more in luxury tax (169 million) then 12 teams pay in total salary. Thats wild too me.
I’m not for or against a salary cap but i found these numbers very interesting.
I just added up in my head the totals so apologies in advance if its wrong.
P.S. All I want for Christmas is Bichette and Tucker,
I’ll settle for just Bichette though. Thanks Santa,
Go Jay’s!
Doesn’t included the scam that teams can make deals to defer salaries. Like ohtani making $2 million per year until 2034. Take their total salaries and divide by how many years on contract, and let’s see what that number is.
28 comments
When Dodgers pay more in taxes alone than how much the bottom 12 teams spend on total payroll…
They had a 286M payroll? I thought it was under 281M. Like around 278-279M
That means they crossed into the 3rd Lux Tax Penalty hit
I thought the city of ATH would be lower 🤷‍♂️
169MM in luxury taxes is actually crazy
Pshh. I spent that on hot dogs and beer last
Season.
Man the Mets must have been so good, probably was a dog fight in the NLCS vs the Dodgers
Also I like how it was decided that the Mets are the New York team, and the Yankees had to settle for being the 3 letter abbreviation
Ah yes the two classic New York teams NY and NYY.
It is obscene that the LAD paid *more in tax alone* than the entire payrolls of 12 other teams.
MLB is broken.
I understand the Jays are technically a top 5 salary team, but there’s a massive difference between $300 million and the almost twice as much Dodgers payroll
You could combine the salaries of the bottom 4 teams and remove them from the Dodgers payroll and they would still have enough salary left to be in the top half of the league in payroll.
Jays can cover that with loonie dog sales next year.
What would the tax situation be if both or either Bo and/or Kyle Tucker signed?
If anyone needed convincing that ML Baseball is first and foremost a business, this should do it.
Some guys sell luxury condos other guys rent out low cost housing, some guys build F1 fireballs other guys are happy on the dirt track. Some guys maybe shouldn’t be in business at all.
The one thing these all have in common? The product isn’t baseball, it’s hope.
Unbridled capitalism is what it is.
Yeesh. This league needs parity.
This is incomplete without showing how much the welfare teams receive.
Red Sox ownership is CHEAP.. they should be well into the tax being a large market, but Fenway Sports Group refuses to open the checkbook. It’s bad when even Toronto is spending far more and has committed ownership wanting to contend for a championship – something Boston hasn’t done since Dombrowski left.
Yankees up there as usual – but it’s obvious ownership is not happy losing money at that payroll with the luxury taxes and revenue sharing – hence why they’ve done very little this offseason.
Jays have an “internal” cap/budget of $300MM.
It feels like just yesterday that AA was basically passing the hat in spring training, asking players to renegotiate so they could bring in a 4th starter. Unreal how far we’ve come.
I still look at the list of guys who get non-tendered on MLBTR and think “oh maybe” because, you know, when you grow up poor you always look for a bargain.
Completely insane how the script flipped on Rogers’ commitment to payroll. Absolutely loving being a fan of one of the “big” teams.
Anyway, fuck ED (Erectile Dysfunction) Rogers Jr forever lol but it’s crazy to become a “have” team.
Flags fly forever.
Dodgers made that 169 back or will this year, I bet.
Gotta hand it to the Guardians and Brewers. They still somehow manage to remain competitive and make the playoffs as bottom tier spenders. Speaks well of their drafting and development.
Imagine looking at this and concluding the problem is the top 5 teams and not the bottom 5.
The Jays probably made 13 million in the first 4 innings of the first playoff game. These numbers don’t mean anything.
About 5 billion total in just salaries of all teams. Every year. Divided by 30 teams and the average is roughly 166,666,666 per team. The dodgers pay this amount just in luxury tax. 166,666,666 x 2.5 equals around 416,000,000. Which is the dodgers payroll. The top 10 teams salaries make up roughly 3 billion of the 5 billion total salaries of 30 teams. The dodgers pay more in luxury tax (169 million) then 12 teams pay in total salary. Thats wild too me.
I’m not for or against a salary cap but i found these numbers very interesting.
I just added up in my head the totals so apologies in advance if its wrong.
P.S. All I want for Christmas is Bichette and Tucker,
I’ll settle for just Bichette though. Thanks Santa,
Go Jay’s!
Doesn’t included the scam that teams can make deals to defer salaries. Like ohtani making $2 million per year until 2034. Take their total salaries and divide by how many years on contract, and let’s see what that number is.
What is the win to payroll ratio?
MLB fans: “sAlArY cAp nOw!”
What’s up with StLou??