2025 MLB Season

[Reality]

No one spends more than the Dodgers . Rangers aren’t even in that neighborhood .

Actually, the Phillies spend more than the Dodgers on their active payroll and the Rangers have been catching up a lot more than you realize.

A lot of fans have been under the misconception that the Dodgers are spending 2x or even 3x times other teams, but it's nowhere near that.

They've just been signing long term deals where most teams have been signing shorter contracts which makes the Dodgers contracts look much larger and ones signed by other teams appear much smaller.

For example, the Texas Rangers have 2 of the top 10 highest paid players in deGrom and Seager for 2025. The Dodgers have 0 in the top 10.

As for active payroll (meaning players on the active roster), the Phillies (#1) are at $273 milliohn, Dodgers (#2) are at $271 million, the Mets (#3) are at $259 million .. the Rangers (#5) carry the fifth highest active payroll at $198 million.

The Dodgers have their roster for the next couple of years so the odds are other teams, including the Rangers, will gain further ground on them by spending more during that period.

 

[RonWashington]

Actually, the Phillies spend more than the Dodgers on their active payroll and the Rangers have been catching up a lot more than you realize.

A lot of fans have been under the misconception that the Dodgers are spending 2x or even 3x times other teams, but it's nowhere near that.

They've just been signing long term deals where most teams have been signing shorter contracts which makes the Dodgers contracts look much larger and ones signed by other teams appear much smaller.

For example, the Texas Rangers have 2 of the top 10 highest paid players in deGrom and Seager for 2025. The Dodgers have 0 in the top 10.

As for active payroll (meaning players on the active roster), the Phillies (#1) are at $273 milliohn, Dodgers (#2) are at $271 million, the Mets (#3) are at $259 million .. the Rangers (#5) carry the fifth highest active payroll at $198 million.

The Dodgers have their roster for the next couple of years so the odds are other teams, including the Rangers, will gain further ground on them by spending more during that period.

Seagar panned out obviously MVP WS deGrom has been a risk that’s yet to payoff . These Ranger owners are going to be reluctant to make the jump up to Phillies Dodger zip codes . They are 75 million below LA .

Bochy won in two places that hadn’t won a WS previous to him and in the case of SF after him . Probably the best the game has right now .

 

[Reality]

Seagar panned out obviously MVP WS deGrom has been a risk that’s yet to payoff . These Ranger owners are going to be reluctant to make the jump up to Phillies Dodger zip codes . They are 75 million below LA .

Bochy won in two places that hadn’t won a WS previous to him and in the case of SF after him . Probably the best the game has right now .

Bochy is a really good manager as I said before, but he won in Texas after they started spending money and San Francisco was spending money as well when he won there.

There are low payroll teams that have great seasons (the Rays for example) but overall, the teams that win end up having to spend to sign free agents and to keep their own best players or else other teams sign them away.

In a bit of irony, the Dodgers wanted to keep Seager when his contract ended but the Rangers offered him more money.