Tiger Payroll Purgatory

[kalinecountry]

2025 MLB Team Tax Tracker

A real-time look at the 2025 tax totals for each MLB team, including estimated tax space.

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MLB Team Tax Tracker.
A real-time look at the 2025 tax totals for each MLB team, including estimated tax space.
Note: Tax figures based on payroll data only. Outside revenue sources will be adjusted when available after the regular season.
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[kalinecountry]

Putting into context how embarrassing Tigers' 2025 payroll is as free agents come off the board

After a magical run to the ALDS in 2024, many Detroit Tigers fans dared to hope that the Detroit Tigers would stop acting like a small-market club and be aggres

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Putting into context how embarrassing Tigers' 2025 payroll is as free agents come off the board.
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[kalinecountry]

Projecting Tigers' rotation, 2025 payroll after Jack Flaherty signing

The Detroit Tigers' starting rotation and team payroll suddenly look a lot more respectable after the signing of Jack Flaherty to a two-year, $35 million contra

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Projecting Tigers' rotation, 2025 payroll after Jack Flaherty signing.
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[kalinecountry]

The most overpaid and underpaid players on Tigers' 2025 roster

The Tigers are stuck with another albatross contract, but they've gotten away with highway robbery in other places.

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The most overpaid and underpaid players on Tigers' 2025 roster.
The Tigers are stuck with another albatross contract, but they've gotten away with highway robbery in other places.
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[Sbee]

The most overpaid and underpaid players on Tigers' 2025 roster

The Tigers are stuck with another albatross contract, but they've gotten away with highway robbery in other places.

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The most overpaid and underpaid players on Tigers' 2025 roster.
The Tigers are stuck with another albatross contract, but they've gotten away with highway robbery in other places.
MCBTB

I don't mind where we are with payroll, hopefully not signing Bregman will free up money in 27 and beyond to sign Skubal and Greene. There were no realistic options that made sense in free agency, unless Bregman signed and opted out after 1 or 2 years. He was projected to be a 2 WAR player making 30+ million by year 3 and he was a horrible park fit.

 

[tomdalton22]

I don't mind where we are with payroll, hopefully not signing Bregman will free up money in 27 and beyond to sign Skubal and Greene. There were no realistic options that made sense in free agency, unless Bregman signed and opted out after 1 or 2 years. He was projected to be a 2 WAR player making 30+ million by year 3 and he was a horrible park fit.

I don't think there is a chance in hell that they sign Skubal

 

[byco42]

I don't mind where we are with payroll, hopefully not signing Bregman will free up money in 27 and beyond to sign Skubal and Greene. There were no realistic options that made sense in free agency, unless Bregman signed and opted out after 1 or 2 years. He was projected to be a 2 WAR player making 30+ million by year 3 and he was a horrible park fit.

Bregman's replacement on the Astros, a former Tiger, is projected to have higher OBP, wOBA wRC+ and WAR than Bregman, and he makes $33.5 million less a season.

 

[Sbee]

I don't think there is a chance in hell that they sign Skubal

Maybe not but when Boras said the offer wasn't serious, I took that as him negotiating in public to put pressure on the franchise. The CBA ends in late 2026, would he risk free agency and signing between the end of the season and December 26? What would the contract situation be after a long lockout or strike?

 

[byco42]

Maybe not but when Boras said the offer wasn't serious, I took that as him negotiating in public to put pressure on the franchise. The CBA ends in late 2026, would he risk free agency and signing between the end of the season and December 26? What would the contract situation be after a long lockout or strike?

Since you appeared to imply (correctly) that this next CBA will be and already is especially contentious, and since Boros is looking for 10+ years, 40+ million a year for Skubal (spitballing here) and the owners want a salary cap because the Dodgers are spending money more recklessly than Congress, I think that the only team that would sign Skubal is the Dodgers.

This deferred-money ponzi scheme would certainly be procribed in the new CBA if the owners get their way. My .02.

EDIT: But with that slimeball Manfred at the head of the table, we know he'll say one thing and think another.