The final payroll totals for the 2025 MLB season show the Los Angeles Dodgers spent seven times as much on their roster as the lowest-spending team in the league. <\/p>\n
Per figures compiled by the commissioner’s office obtained by Ronald Blum<\/a> of the Associated Press, the Dodgers spent a record $514.6 million between player salaries and competitive balance tax payments. <\/p>\n By contrast, the Miami Marlins had the lowest payroll in MLB last year at $68.7 million. The Dodgers’ investment certainly paid off, as they held off the Toronto Blue Jays in a thrilling seven-game World Series to win their second straight championship. <\/p>\n Los Angeles’ financial breakdown was $345.3 million in player salaries and a $169.4 million\u00a0tax bill.<\/p>\n The Dodgers’ tax figure from last season was\u00a0higher than the payroll<\/a>\u00a0for 12 teams.<\/p>\n The New York Mets, who were the\u00a0highest-spending team<\/a>\u00a0in 2024 ($430.4 million), ranked second last year. Their total was right in line with that previous figure at $433.7 million.<\/p>\n Behind the Dodgers and Mets, the New York Yankees and Philadelphia Phillies were the only other teams with a tax payroll over $300 million.<\/p>\n Blum noted that part of what pushed the Dodgers over the Mets in 2025 were the $8.5 million in contract bonuses earned by Clayton Kershaw that also added to their tax figure.<\/p>\n However, Blum also pointed the Dodgers actually saved about $71 million thanks to deferred contracts lowering the present-day value of their payroll.<\/p>\n The Dodgers’ total financial investment from last season was higher than the six lowest-spending teams in MLB combined.<\/p>\n After signing Kyle Tucker and Edwin D\u00edaz, the Dodgers aren’t cutting costs based on estimates for the 2026 season. They lead MLB with a\u00a0$415.2 million<\/a>\u00a0tax payroll, nearly $34 million higher than the Mets at No. 2 ($381.9 million).<\/p>\n The Dodgers’\u00a0estimated tax bill<\/a>\u00a0for this season is $161.9 million, which would bring their all-in total up to $574.1 million. The Mets are projected to be around $501.9 million when adding in their estimated $120 million tax payment.<\/p>\n Tucker and Shohei Ohtani account for\u00a042.33 percent<\/a>\u00a0of the Dodgers’ competitive balance payroll this season with a combined salary of $103.3 million. MLB’s\u00a0CBT threshold<\/a>\u00a0for 2026 is set at $244 million.<\/p>\n Things seem to still be working out okay for the Dodgers. They lead MLB with a 14-4 record and plus-46 run differential entering play on Thursday. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The final payroll totals for the 2025 MLB season show the Los Angeles Dodgers spent seven times as…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":608343,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-608342","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=608342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608342\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/608343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=608342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=608342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=608342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}