By Chuck Booth (Lead Baseball Analyst/Website Owner): Follow @chuckbooth3024
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I wrote an article just 16 months ago on how the LA Dodgers were going to force the economics of baseball the way they were conduct business with the new ownership.
As someone who has worked the majority of the time on the site for the last 3 years, I take great pride in my research. So far it has worked out.
The Dodgers following what I said is nice vindication as a writer.
I am not here to toot my own horn, but our website was also on the forefront of the Athletics renaissance a few years back, the Rays coming back to fight in the 2013 year, and also we were one of the 1st to report the Shields for Myers deal.
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Yes, we have made a few wrong predictions along the way, but who doesn’t? Our track record has been pretty good.
One of the things i watch more than anything is payroll.
The Dodgers are making a mockery of the “Luxury Threshold Tax” of $189 MIL.
With this deal, the club now has 5 of their current players on the top 25 ALL-Time Contract List. Kershaw (6th), Kemp (T15th), Gonzalez (18th), Greinke (21st) and Crawford (23rd).
They also have world class players Hyun-jin Ryu locked up for several more years at a decent mark each campaign.
What an incredible change for Frank McCourt owning the team 18 months ago.
This franchise has entered un-chartered territory for a National League franchise. They are completely distancing themselves from the competition by outspending.
In the next 5 years…mark this down, St. Louis, Washington and the Dodgers will be the perennial representatives from the NL every season in the World Series.’
St. Louis is there because they are run incredibly well, and Washington needed years of misery to land draft picks like Bryce Harper and Stephen Strasburg.
Here is the new MLB though. These clubs are going to be exponentially more expensive each year their cores grow together, and their top talented youngsters all come up for new deals.
St. Louis and Washington will soon be near $140 – $160 MIL in total payroll based on how good their teams are.
Yes Atlanta, San Francisco and Pittsburgh will have a fighting chance if they’re pitching holds up, but there is a shift coming.
The Dodgers spending spree will force all of the National clubs to spend more if they want to compete.
There is a reason why this franchise is listed as the favorite in the game of baseball to win the World Series in 2014. While that hasn’t worked in the past for teams, I believe it will begin.
I seriously doubt any team not in the top 15 payroll will even make the World Series in the next 5 – 6 years, let alone win it.
The Yankees are only going to be down for 1 year in payroll (whether that is 2014 or 2015), so there are two teams that will make others buck up their salaries.
Luckily for the American League, New York doesn’t harvest their own talent like St. Louis, or they would win every year.
If it is not New York, Boston, Texas, Detroit and the Los Angeles Angels are starting to blow up how much money they are doling out each year.
I am giving full credit to the Red Sox for not being lumped into long-term deals, and also forking out cash on deals wisely, but that doesn’t mean they won’t be active.
The discrepancies from top to bottom teams will need to be addressed in the new CBA after the 2016 year.
Enough of that for now.
The Dodgers threw down the 1st salvo in 2012 – with the blockbuster trade they completed with the Red Sox.
While that was a good deal for both clubs, it shifted the focus of how the NL Los Angeles franchise was going to conduct business under the new ownership.
Los Angeles is committed to 8 players with contracts that go from 4 years to 6. The core is all locked up except for SS Hanley Ramirez.
Don’t be surprised to see him be next on the extension list. Look for a 5 YR deal worth $90 – $100 MIL.
The OF is hugely paid based on their 4 guys Of Puig, Ethier, Kemp and Crawford. Now the team may still trade Kemp, but if they don’t. that salary will certainly not cripple them either as 2013 showed.
In this list, it doesn’t show the 2017 and 2018 for Kershaw, in which he also will make $33 MIL for each of those 2 years. He will make $32 MIL in 2019 and $33 MIL again in 2020
2014 – 2016 Dodgers Salaries
Pos | Player | Age | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 |
SP1- | Clayton Kershaw | 25 | $22,000,000 | $30,000,000 | $32,000,000 |
SP2- | Hyun-Jin Ryu | 26 | $4,333,333 | $4,833,333 | $7,833,333 |
SP3- | Zack Greinke | 31 | $26,000,000 | $25,000,000 | $26,000,000 |
SP4- | Dan Haren | 33 | $10,000,000 | VESTING | |
SP5- | Chris Capuano | 35 | FA | ||
SP6 | Stephen Fife | 27 | NON-ARB2 | NON-ARB3 | ARB1 |
SP7- | Josh Beckett | 32 | $15,750,000 | FA | |
SP8- | Chad Billingsley | 29 | $12,000,000 | $14,000,000 | |
SPS- | |||||
RHMR- | Chris Withrow | 24 | NON-ARB1 | NON-ARB2 | NON-ARB3 |
RHMR- | Jamey Wright | 38 | $1,800,000 | FA | |
LHMR- | |||||
RHSU- | Carlos Marmol | 31 | FA | ||
RHSU- | Chris Perez | 28 | $2,300,000 | FA | |
LHSU- | Scott Elbert | 28 | $575,000 | ARB2 | ARB3 |
LHSU- | Paco Rodriguez | 22 | NON-ARB2 | NON-ARB3 | ARB1 |
LHSU- | J.P. Howell | 30 | $4,000,000 | $4,000,000 | $6,250,000 |
CL- | Brian Wilson | 31 | $10,000,000 | $9,000,000 | |
CL- | Brandon League | 30 | $8,500,000 | $8,500,000 | $7,500,000 |
CL- | Kenley Jansen | 26 | ARB1 | ARB2 | ARB3 |
$117,260,347 | $95,335,348 | $79,585,349 | |||
POSITION PLAYERS | AGE | 2014 SALARY | 2015 SALARY | 2016 SALARY | |
C- | A.J. Ellis | 32 | ARB2 | ARB3 | ARB4 |
1B- | Adrian Gonzalez | 30 | $21,857,000 | $21,857,000 | $21,857,000 |
2B- | |||||
SS- | Hanley Ramirez | 30 | $16,000,000 | FA | |
3B- | Juan Uribe | 33 | $6,500,000 | $6,500,000 | FA |
LF- | Carl Crawford | 31 | $21,107,142 | $21,357,142 | $21,607,142 |
CF- | Matt Kemp | 29 | $21,250,000 | $21,250,000 | $21,750,000 |
RF- | Andre Ethier | 31 | $15,500,000 | $18,000,000 | $16,000,000 |
C- | Tim Federowicz | 26 | NON-ARB2 | NON-ARB3 | ARB1 |
C- | Drew Butera | 31 | $700,000 | ARB2 | ARB3 |
1B- | Michael Young | 37 | FA | ||
1B- | Scott Van Slyke | 27 | NON-ARB2 | NON-ARB3 | ARB1 |
3B- | |||||
UTL- | |||||
UTL- | Dee Gordon | 25 | NON-ARB3 | ARB1 | ARB2 |
OF- | Yasiel Puig | 23 | $3,714,285 | $3,714,285 | $6,214,275 |
OF- | Mike Baxter | 29 | $700,000 | ARB2 | ARB3 |
$107,328,427 | $92,678,427 | $87,428,417 |
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