{"id":850713,"date":"2026-11-11T06:37:17","date_gmt":"2026-11-11T06:37:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/850713\/"},"modified":"2026-11-11T06:37:17","modified_gmt":"2026-11-11T06:37:17","slug":"proposed-mlb-salary-floor-could-force-cleveland-guardians-to-more-than-double-payroll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/850713\/","title":{"rendered":"Proposed MLB salary floor could force Cleveland Guardians to more than double payroll"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Guardians are one of the 12 teams that would \u201chave to make a big addition to their payroll to meet the required floor,\u201d according to Paul Hoynes of the Cleveland PLAIN DEALER. The cap and floor for 2028 are \u201cprojections, not fixed figures,\u201d and it \u201ccould take teams a few seasons to reach those projections.\u201d The Guardians are coming off a season when they made MLB\u2019s Final Three with the lowest payroll in baseball, an estimated $74.5M, per Spotrac. In order to reach the proposed floor of $180.2M, they would have to add over $105M to their payroll. Cleveland has not only \u201clearned to survive but thrive as a small-market team thanks to good player development and a smart front office.\u201d But unless owner Paul Dolan \u201chas strayed from his conservative financial path entering his 28th year of ownership, minority owner David Blitzer could be playing a much bigger role in running the team in the near future.\u201d Blitzer purchased a reported 35% of the team in June of 2022. It included an option to become the majority owner<\/a> at the end of the 2027 season. Hoynes: \u201cNo matter what transpires in the next few years, the Dolan family is expected to keep a share in the Guardians\u201d (Cleveland PLAIN DEALER, 11\/7<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Guardians are one of the 12 teams that would \u201chave to make a big addition to their…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":850714,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2380],"tags":[5,135,51,2565,538,4],"class_list":["post-850713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cleveland-guardians","tag-baseball","tag-cleveland","tag-cleveland-guardians","tag-clevelandguardians","tag-guardians","tag-mlb"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/117596431508484565","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/850713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=850713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/850713\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/850714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=850713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=850713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=850713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}