It's that time of the year. Time to unveil MLB's opening day payrolls, and laugh at the teams spending like drunkards (Yankees, $229 million) and the ones fielding quadruple-A rosters (Astros, $24 million). Let's dive in.


As it does every year, the Associated Press has compiled the salaries of every player on every 25-man active roster. Since this information isn't public, it requires a little estimation, but these figures are the absolute best you're going to get.

Click on the cities in the map above for each roster's individual player salaries. (If you have trouble finding the annotation, just search this page for the team name, and you'll find it in the discussion section below. You can also search for individual players' names.)


Here's the list of total team payrolls (the figure is the adjusted payroll, which takes into account cash received in trades, prorated signing bonuses, and other tweaks):

New York Yankees $228,995,945

$228,995,945 Los Angeles Dodgers $216,302,909

$216,302,909 Philadelphia $159,578,214

$159,578,214 Boston $158,967,286

$158,967,286 Detroit $149,046,844

$149,046,844 San Francisco $142,180,333

$142,180,333 Los Angeles Angels $142,165,250

$142,165,250 Texas $127,197,575

$127,197,575 Chicago White Sox $124,065,277

$124,065,277 Toronto $118,244,039

$118,244,039 St. Louis $116,702,085

$116,702,085 Washington $112,431,770

$112,431,770 Cincinnati $110,565,728

$110,565,728 Chicago Cubs $104,150,726

$104,150,726 Baltimore $91,793,333

$91,793,333 Milwaukee $91,003,366

$91,003,366 Arizona $90,158,500

$90,158,500 Atlanta $89,288,193

$89,288,193 New York Mets $88,877,033

$88,877,033 Seattle $84,295,952

$84,295,952 Cleveland $82,517,300

$82,517,300 Kansas City $80,491,725

$80,491,725 Minnesota $75,562,500

$75,562,500 Colorado $75,449,071

$75,449,071 San Diego $71,689,900

$71,689,900 Oakland $68,577,000

$68,577,000 Pittsburgh $66,289,524

$66,289,524 Tampa Bay $57,030,272

$57,030,272 Miami $39,621,900

$39,621,900 Houston $24,328,538

Takeaways: A-Rod will make more than the Astros. The Dodgers will likely pass the Yankees for the top spot next year. Miami cut its payroll from last season by more than 60 percent. The Blue Jays will field $37 million worth of Marlins. Arizona's highest-paid player is a setup guy. Among the NL favorites, the Braves, Nationals, and Reds all show the importance of home-grown pitching—while the Giants have reached the phase where they've had to pay top-dollar to keep their aces.

Astros manager Bo Porter had this to say:

"When we get on the baseball field with whomever the opponent is, they are not sitting there saying: `Well, their players make more money than us so therefore you're deemed a winner and we're deemed a loser.'"


This is true. It's also true that Houston could lose 110 games this year.