(New York) The New York Mets are on track to have the highest payroll in baseball for the first time since 1989, among six teams at risk of having to pay a fine for overspending.
The Los Angeles Dodgers, who started the season with the highest payroll, dropped to second place due to the suspension of Trevor Bauer.
The Mets entered the final full month of the season with a payroll of $273.9 million, according to Major League Baseball’s updated Aug. 31 figures. The Dodgers are second with 267.2 million, followed by the New York Yankees with 254.4 million.
The Mets hope to win their first World Series title since 1986.
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Mets pitcher Max Scherzer, with a $43.3 million Major League salary, earns about $5 million less than the entire Oakland Athletics team. If you add his salary to that of his teammates Jacob deGrom and Francisco Lindor, that’s around 103 million – more than eight of the 30 clubs.
When the Mets finished at the top of Major League Baseball’s payroll, their total was 21.3 million.
The Dodgers’ payroll declined when Bauer was suspended for two years without pay on April 29 for violating the domestic violence policy. Bauer’s salary in 2022 was 32 million, but it was reduced to what he was owed at the time of the suspension: 3.8 million. He challenges his suspension in front of a referee.
The Dodgers finished at the top of the payroll in 2020 and 2021. They set a record with a payroll of 291 million in 2015.
The Mets’ payroll has been steadily increasing since Steven Cohen bought the team from the Wilpon and Katz families after the 2020 season, and negotiators revealed last March that a new tax cap was intended for they. Cohen then joked, “It’s better than having a bridge named after you. »
For luxury tax purposes, which uses the average annual salaries of the 40-man roster, the Mets are on track to set a record 298.8 million and eclipse the Dodgers’ 297.9 million in 2015.
The Mets would have to pay a tax of 29.9 million as the midseason deals increased their payroll from a projection of 289.3 million on opening day and beyond the new cap of 290 million provided for in the deal. March, which ended the period of 99 days. block.
The Dodgers entered this season with a payroll of 310 million, which would result in a record 47 million penalty. Their payrolls dropped to 289.96 million as of Aug. 31, leaving them just below the Cohen tax. With higher tax rates as a repeat offender, the Dodgers will likely have to shell out $29.4 million.
The Yankees have a payroll of 267 million and a projected tax of 9.4 million, and the Phillies, with 243 million, are expected to pay 2.6 million.
The Boston Red Sox, just above the first threshold of 234.5 million, would expect about $900,000. After paying the tax for the first time last year, the San Diego Padres are doing it again with a payroll of around $233 million and a tax of just over $800,000.
The four penalty levels have been set this season at 230, 250, 270 and 290 million.
Primary offenders pay 20% above the first threshold, 32% above the second, 62.5% above the third and 80% above the fourth.
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