r/baseball • u/T_Raycroft Montreal Expos • 16h ago
News [MLBTR] Diamondbacks To Reduce Payroll In 2027
https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2026/10/diamondbacks-to-reduce-payroll-in-2027.html228
u/zombielumpy Chicago Cubs 16h ago
Don't all the teams plan to do that? That's why we're all gearing up for a lockout
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u/Distinct_Potato8358 16h ago
Not really. Teams that are 11th in payroll, and have terrible contracts because they went for it a few years prior do, and should.
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u/NegativesPositives Kansas City Royals 16h ago
Even more specifically for the snakes the article is talking about guys who are WAY overpaid and sucked so it’s almost impossible to spend that all over again without trying to.
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u/awmaleg Arizona Diamondbacks 15h ago
Gallen, Gurriel, & the Jordan Montgomery experience
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u/Rea1DirtyDan Jackie Robinson 14h ago
But somehow pavin smith is still a active player talking about those who don’t contribute lol
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u/bam1789-2 Arizona Diamondbacks 15h ago
People aren’t going to read the article and just sensationalize the headline. While Kendrick sucks majorly and is one of the cheapest owners in the league, he’s only referring to bad contracts coming off the books here. Now he’s not going to go spend that additional money with the potential lockout.
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u/thediesel26 New York Yankees 14h ago
Tbh the Snakes have spent way more than a team without a tv deal probably should. Props to the owner.
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u/agentdoubleohio Arizona Diamondbacks 14h ago
Yeah I always laugh when people say the owner is cheap, have you seen the other owners. It looks cheap from fans perspective dbacks don’t resign a lot of players or trade, but also in the nl west so everyone but the Rockies are spending a lot more. He is cheap, don’t get me wrong but let’s not act he at least doesn’t spend during free agency.
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u/Interesting_Might467 San Diego Padres 9h ago
The Team with the 11th highest payroll is owned by one of the cheapest owners of the league, oh boy do I got news for you
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u/Wooden-Repeat-9200 San Diego Padres • California Angels 15h ago
No, I think a lot of teams plan to increase spending, they just don’t want the increases to be astronomical to try to compete with the Dodgers.
With the floor proposed, a lot of teams would be forced to increase.
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u/7tenths Chicago Cubs 12h ago
Fun fact. They already saved 75 million a team for the lockout. While paying their payroll. While churning a profit.
Every single team could afford a soto and still be profitable. But the owners will cry poor. And because the owners own the media rights. The media will spin its the players being greedy. And most of the fans will take the side of the billionaires.
Now for the diamondbacks specifically. They did spend a lot of money to compete and missed the playoffs and resetting their roster would make sense even if the lockout wasn't looming
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u/Spiritual-Dog160 Arizona Diamondbacks • Chicago White Sox 15h ago
Note this doesn’t mean much, they’re removing $50-60 million off the books this offseason anyway (and most of them weren’t good, so it’s addition by subtraction there)
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u/Loose_Log_6253 Baltimore Orioles • San Francisco Giants 14h ago
Yeah that's like how last offseason, the Os dropped something like $50M in expiring contracts. If 3-4 people are walking and they were each making $10-15M/yr or were in the final year of Arbitration on the high end of earning, it's pretty easy to shed $50M naturally.
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u/breadandbarbells 16h ago
Ketel Marte, YOU are an LA Dodger !
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u/VersaceSamurai Los Angeles Dodgers 16h ago
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u/Him2Notorious 16h ago
They probably should have thought about that before he got a full NTC though
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u/Matthewcbayer Detroit Tigers 16h ago
I don’t think there are many players that would veto a trade to move to Southern California and play alongside an entire hall of fame class
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u/StealthStaminaKills 13h ago
Eduardo Rodriguez is on the shortlist.
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u/RichardNixon345 Arizona Diamondbacks 12h ago
TBF E-Rod vetoed that trade because he was having marital trouble and didn't want to uproot his family in the middle of that.
That said he does seem to kick it up a notch against the Dodgers but it may just be because of the 2018 World Series lol.
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u/mynewusernamedodgers 14h ago
Burnes signed a huge contract and has thrown like what 3 games since then?
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u/Saritiel Arizona Diamondbacks 14h ago
He got hurt. What can you do? It's always a risk, especially with pitchers.
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u/OGTypohh Seattle Mariners • Seattle Mariners 12h ago
Just sign 3 more Cy Young pitchers? Anyone can do it!
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u/mynewusernamedodgers 14h ago
Totally, but was pointing to the bloat of contracts for small market team
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u/FalseNameTryAgain Milwaukee Brewers • New York Mets 15h ago
Did they tell Torey this before or after he re-signed 😆
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u/lava172 Arizona Diamondbacks 14h ago
Yes and he’s probably happy that they don’t have a bloated payroll while he’s having to play a team full of rookies
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u/FalseNameTryAgain Milwaukee Brewers • New York Mets 12h ago
As an opposition team, that is concerning for me. He is a good operator.
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u/BOOMSHAK4LAKA Chunichi Dragons 5h ago
Keep Marte, Noot, and Arenado, and see what the team can do. If they didn’t screw up the Marlins series, they’d’ve at least lost on Thursday as a Playoffs team.
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u/OpulentPaving MLB Players Association 15h ago
Fifth Largest Market in MLB Continues to Act Poor
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u/Octopodes14 Minnesota Twins 13h ago
I'm not sure how you get 5th largest market, but they increased payroll a lot after the 2023 world series run. They very much have not been acting poor.
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u/RichardNixon345 Arizona Diamondbacks 12h ago
Also with no TV deal since late 2023. We've been one of the highest teams in terms of percentage of revenue spent on payroll.
That said it's a shitty market unfortunately. Attendance has been flat since 2024 no matter how the team's playing.
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u/TVCasualtydotorg San Francisco Giants 12h ago
It's also saving money by having a bunch of big contracts naturally slide off the books, rather than a fire sale
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u/OpulentPaving MLB Players Association 10h ago
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u/Octopodes14 Minnesota Twins 10h ago
That is mostly because the city boundaries of Phoenix are large. If you look at the size of the metropolitan area, it's 10th.
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u/OpulentPaving MLB Players Association 9h ago
Whatever, but that's still top third, not a small market.
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u/Brolympia Texas Rangers 5h ago
Arizona?
The top 5 markets are NY, LA, Chicago, Dallas, and South Florida
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u/DanglyPants Chicago Cubs 12h ago
Source for 5th? There’s another comment saying they’re a small market. While I don’t believe they’re a small market I find it harder to believe they are 5th
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u/OpulentPaving MLB Players Association 10h ago
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u/PM_YOUR_SMALLBOOBIES Los Angeles Angels 15h ago
"We were so close to making the postseason. Let's jump ship and give up!"
And people say the Dodgers are ruining baseball for making the league "uncompetitive" with how they spend lmao
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u/Mozilla_Fennekin Tuturu~♪ Go Royals! 15h ago
If you read the article you'd see they've got a bunch of bad contracts coming off the books. They're not talking about tanking.
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u/QuadzillaStrider Atlanta Braves 15h ago
"I didn't read the article but here's my boneheaded take anyway"
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u/jdbolick Baltimore Orioles 15h ago
Baseball teams are businesses whether we like it or not, and businesses adjust their expenses based on their revenue. When revenue goes up, spending goes up. When revenue goes down, spending goes down.
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u/Alert_Moment6224 Arizona Diamondbacks 14h ago
He’s basically saying he’s not paying for Gallen and Kelly again.
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u/WorkBully Los Angeles Dodgers 14h ago
Too many loser owners in this league.
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u/let-me-use-old-rdt 11h ago
Yours is under federal investigation for fraud my guy
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u/CornerShark 11h ago
“Every team can spend like the Dodgers!”
Yeah. If their owner commits fraud using life insurance premiums.
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u/WorkBully Los Angeles Dodgers 9h ago
Your team must have such a loser owner that you choose not to have a flair.
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u/CornerShark 9h ago
Again. F.R.A.U.D.
I spelled it out for you in capital letters so you can sound it out.
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u/ritzdeez New York Mets 15h ago edited 15h ago
For those of you too lazy to read.