Per Fangraphs, the Dodgers are currently projected to run a $413 million payroll next year
January 16, 2026
Per Fangraphs, the Dodgers are currently projected to run a $413 million payroll next year
41 comments
…so far
The Dodgers Payroll sits at $413 million for 2026.
The AL Central will spend $573 million this season.
But I’m sure every team can compete with them!
Call me crazy, but I *don’t* think many teams could realistically do that
Maybe Kyle Tucker will just be another Michael Conforto for them?
They make other big market teams look like small markets
Why dont other teams just get billions of dollars in a tv deal and way overpay everyone? Its so simple
Mariners are in World Series contention for the first time in my life, and we’re going to have a lockout because of this shit.
Lovely.
Clearly the luxury tax is no disincentive, whatsoever.
If you guys don’t think this basically ensures a salary cap by 2027, you are quite literally fucking nuts. It’s over. This will ultimately be the straw that breaks the camel’s back.
After the luxury tax, that will be $581 million…
If Im Bellinger I’d go back to LA also
Dodgers got absolutely curb stomped by the Diamondbacks in 2023 and have just been on a revenge tour ever since.
New rule: The Dodgers don’t have to pay any luxury tax, but the rest of the league gets to juice.
This is healthy for the state of baseball
I’m sure that this is just the owners fault and if they wanted too they could?
Having the infinite cash flow that is Ohtani certainly makes this easy
Realistically why even try at this point? They got the best player in the world at 3 million a year who prints money for them so they can hand out NBA contracts to players now.
They’re paying 5 players 30+ million this year.
How is this good for baseball
if uncle steve gets a salary cap named after him… what do we call this??
I’m primarily a hockey fan and my baseball fandom is comparatively very casual. Can someone tell me why so many fans are opposed to a salary cap? This is absurd.
Major League Baseball is a total embarrassment. Completely unwatchable
This seems like the Dodgers would rather spend money they don’t need to spend on a star player than watch that player sign with a competitor they could face in the playoffs.
No sane person could possibly think this is good for baseball.
The Tax pushes it to $580m. The Dodgers will still pull in half a million easy next season, since they are clearing well over a billion in revenue.
I just want people to understand – the Cubs are generally considered a big market team. The post-tax payroll of the Dodgers is rivalling the annual revenue of teams like the Cubs. There is zero parity within the league. This cannot be allowed to continue.
The Dodgers are spending more on their payroll, than the net worth of the Reds ownership. The Reds could not mortgage themselves to even spend the same amount of money as the Dodgers. Insane.
I don’t see how this is good for the game in any way at all. It’s certainly not good for the fans.
The Dodgers payroll this next year is higher than the GDP of the country of Palau
You would think other owners would eventually get pissed about this. It makes the rest of them look like cheap bastards (many of the are)
Every team should be doing this
Honestly them signing Ohtani should have crippled their ability to sign players, but thanks to deferred contracts they can keep spending.
I’m sure by the end of this offseason it be another 100 or 200 million. They might as well just go all in to ruin baseball with a lockout happening next year.
How is this remotely fair? So sick of everyone on this sub thinking this is normal.
This is one of the problems with the luxury tax: as long as ownership is willing to pay the extra cash, you can basically make a mockery of it.
If they’re not going to institute a cap, I think they need to make the CBT penalties pertain more to roster-building than they do now.
Cool can we stop calling it the Cohen tax now?
Shit wasn’t fun in the 90’s when it was the Yankees, not fun a few years ago when it was the Mets and it certainly isn’t fun now with the dodgers.
At least with the Yankees they’re real fans. I’m getting trolled by 40 year olds that just started watching baseball in 2020.
They made over 700m in revenue last year, so even with this salary they’re are insanely profitable….
Basketball, hockey, and football all have salary caps and no team has an advantage (salary-wise) over another. And it works.
Can anyone explain why a fan should care or watch a 162 game season if their team is not in the top 10 (or top 5 really) of payrolls? Because I really don’t see a good reason to care or be invested when it’s like minor league teams vs. the Dodgers.
MLB is broken and I hope there’s a strike so this can be fixed.
Dodgers entering European soccer team salary range.
Dodgers fans cheering on the death of the sport rn.
41 comments
…so far
The Dodgers Payroll sits at $413 million for 2026.
The AL Central will spend $573 million this season.
But I’m sure every team can compete with them!
Call me crazy, but I *don’t* think many teams could realistically do that
Maybe Kyle Tucker will just be another Michael Conforto for them?
They make other big market teams look like small markets
Why dont other teams just get billions of dollars in a tv deal and way overpay everyone? Its so simple
Mariners are in World Series contention for the first time in my life, and we’re going to have a lockout because of this shit.
Lovely.
Clearly the luxury tax is no disincentive, whatsoever.
If you guys don’t think this basically ensures a salary cap by 2027, you are quite literally fucking nuts. It’s over. This will ultimately be the straw that breaks the camel’s back.
After the luxury tax, that will be $581 million…
If Im Bellinger I’d go back to LA also
Dodgers got absolutely curb stomped by the Diamondbacks in 2023 and have just been on a revenge tour ever since.
New rule: The Dodgers don’t have to pay any luxury tax, but the rest of the league gets to juice.
This is healthy for the state of baseball
I’m sure that this is just the owners fault and if they wanted too they could?
Having the infinite cash flow that is Ohtani certainly makes this easy
Realistically why even try at this point? They got the best player in the world at 3 million a year who prints money for them so they can hand out NBA contracts to players now.
They’re paying 5 players 30+ million this year.
How is this good for baseball
if uncle steve gets a salary cap named after him… what do we call this??
I’m primarily a hockey fan and my baseball fandom is comparatively very casual. Can someone tell me why so many fans are opposed to a salary cap? This is absurd.
Major League Baseball is a total embarrassment. Completely unwatchable
This seems like the Dodgers would rather spend money they don’t need to spend on a star player than watch that player sign with a competitor they could face in the playoffs.
No sane person could possibly think this is good for baseball.
The Tax pushes it to $580m. The Dodgers will still pull in half a million easy next season, since they are clearing well over a billion in revenue.
I just want people to understand – the Cubs are generally considered a big market team. The post-tax payroll of the Dodgers is rivalling the annual revenue of teams like the Cubs. There is zero parity within the league. This cannot be allowed to continue.
The Dodgers are spending more on their payroll, than the net worth of the Reds ownership. The Reds could not mortgage themselves to even spend the same amount of money as the Dodgers. Insane.
I don’t see how this is good for the game in any way at all. It’s certainly not good for the fans.
The Dodgers payroll this next year is higher than the GDP of the country of Palau
You would think other owners would eventually get pissed about this. It makes the rest of them look like cheap bastards (many of the are)
Every team should be doing this
Honestly them signing Ohtani should have crippled their ability to sign players, but thanks to deferred contracts they can keep spending.
I’m sure by the end of this offseason it be another 100 or 200 million. They might as well just go all in to ruin baseball with a lockout happening next year.
How is this remotely fair? So sick of everyone on this sub thinking this is normal.
This is one of the problems with the luxury tax: as long as ownership is willing to pay the extra cash, you can basically make a mockery of it.
If they’re not going to institute a cap, I think they need to make the CBT penalties pertain more to roster-building than they do now.
Cool can we stop calling it the Cohen tax now?
Shit wasn’t fun in the 90’s when it was the Yankees, not fun a few years ago when it was the Mets and it certainly isn’t fun now with the dodgers.
At least with the Yankees they’re real fans. I’m getting trolled by 40 year olds that just started watching baseball in 2020.
They made over 700m in revenue last year, so even with this salary they’re are insanely profitable….
Basketball, hockey, and football all have salary caps and no team has an advantage (salary-wise) over another. And it works.
Can anyone explain why a fan should care or watch a 162 game season if their team is not in the top 10 (or top 5 really) of payrolls? Because I really don’t see a good reason to care or be invested when it’s like minor league teams vs. the Dodgers.
MLB is broken and I hope there’s a strike so this can be fixed.
Dodgers entering European soccer team salary range.
Dodgers fans cheering on the death of the sport rn.
Baseball is dead. They killed it for money