{"id":884480,"date":"2026-10-16T15:32:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-16T15:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/884480\/"},"modified":"2026-10-16T15:32:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T15:32:10","slug":"the-2026-dodgers-and-top-10-most-expensive-mlb-payrolls-that-didnt-win-the-world-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/884480\/","title":{"rendered":"The 2026 Dodgers and Top 10 Most Expensive MLB Payrolls That Didn&#8217;t Win the World Series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium mui-m06sf4\">Competitive Balance Tax Payroll: $207.2M<br \/>Adjusted for Inflation: $358.4M<br \/>Record: 95-67<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium mui-m06sf4\">Once upon a time, the Angels were a regular in the postseason. And in the 2005 ALDS, Bengie Molina brought the lumber for home runs in Games 1, 2 and 3. In the do-or-die Game 5, however, it was Adam Kennedy playing hero with a two-run triple off Mike Mussina before Francisco &#8216;K-Rod&#8217; Rodr\u00edguez closed out the series.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium mui-m06sf4\">Top Earner: Alex Rodriguez ($25.2M)<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium mui-m06sf4\">As was the case with the 2007 iteration we just encountered, giving A-Rod a ton of money in 2005 was a pretty good idea for the Yankees\u2014at least during the regular season. This, too, was one of his MVP campaigns, batting .321\/.421\/.610 with 48 home runs, 130 RBI and 21 stolen bases. (He was a ghost in the ALDS, though, going 2-for-15 with no RBI.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium mui-m06sf4\">Biggest Waste of Funds: Kevin Brown ($15.7M)<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium mui-m06sf4\">At 40 years old, Brown was in the final season of a 7-year, $105M deal, as well as the final season of his career. And in 13 appearances, he gave the Yankees a 6.50 ERA, last appearing in a game that July. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Competitive Balance Tax Payroll: $207.2MAdjusted for Inflation: $358.4MRecord: 95-67 Once upon a time, the Angels were a regular&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":884481,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[99],"class_list":["post-884480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/884480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=884480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/884480\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/884481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=884480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=884480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=884480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}