MLB Opening Day Payrolls

[AZRon]

I drew the data from this series of posts from the Baseball Prospectus Compensation Website

For the 1st time in MLB history, the total of opening day team payrolls exceeded 4 billion dollars

The LA Dodgers led the way with over $241M -- a decrease of 3.6% from last year
The Detroit Tigers were next at just under $200M -- an increase of less than 1% from the previous year

The top 10 ten payrolls by team were:

Los Angeles Dodgers	$241,149,167
Detroit Tigers	$199,750,600
Boston Red Sox	$197,041,179
New York Yankees	$196,389,700
San Francisco Giants	$180,822,611
Chicago Cubs	$172,199,881
Los Angeles Angels	$166,375,833
Texas Rangers	$165,348,063
Washington Nationals	$164,335,444
Baltimore Orioles	$164,326,172

The Nationals and Orioles were in a virtual tie with Toronto next at $1M less

The bottom 10 payrolls by team were:

Minnesota Twins	$108,102,500
Philadelphia Phillies	$100,041,000
Chicago White Sox	$97,823,271
Pittsburgh Pirates	$95,807,004
Cincinnati Reds	$95,375,786
Arizona Diamondbacks	$93,120,200
Oakland Athletics	$81,738,333
Tampa Bay Rays	$70,064,700
San Diego Padres	$69,624,400
Milwaukee Brewers	$63,061,300

[AZRon]

The mean team payroll was $136.6M
The median was $152.1M

MLB total team payroll increased by $190.6M and 4.9%
The mean increase was $6.4M and 6.6%
The median was -$4.9 and -2.5%

Miami had the largest team increase -- $41M and 55.2%

The Yankees had the largest $ decrease at $31.5M
The Padres had the largest % decrease at 30.7%

9 teams increased their payroll by more than 10%
17 teams increased their payroll by more than 2%
4 teams increased their payroll by between 0% and 2%
9 teams decreased their payroll by 0.4% or more

Among the highest spending teams the deltas were:
Dodgers -- -3.6%
Tigers -- +0.6%
Red Sox -- -0.4%
Yankees -- -13.8%
Giants -- +5.1%
Cubs -- +0.3%