The Current State of 2022 Team Payrolls

The FanGraphs Newsletter, December 9, 2021 [READ IN BROWSER]( By Jeffrey Bellone - December 9, 2021 NOTE: During the offseason, we will publish every Tuesday and Thursday. 2022 MLB PAYROLLS: With last week’s lockout of the players by ownership, the league has frozen all transactions for the foreseeable future. That’s bad news — but it also makes this a good time to take a snapshot of team payrolls, because there are no new deals coming down the pipe to mess up the analysis midway through. As such, the following is an update on each team’s payroll as it stood at the start of the lockout. Here are our team-by-team [RosterResource]( projections: 👉 [The Current State of 2022 Team Payrolls, by Ben Clemens]( DAVID ORTIZ: With regards to the advanced stats, it must be acknowledged that JAWS doesn’t capture Ortiz’s postseason portfolio or his unique spot in baseball history, and that regardless of the metrics, many voters will see [the 2019 election of Martinez]( as paving the way for that of Ortiz. As for the drugs, commissioner Rob Manfred issued an important caveat regarding that survey test result near the end of Ortiz’s career. While the opposition to his candidacy shouldn’t be taken for granted, neither should his fame. 👉 [JAWS and the 2022 Hall of Fame Ballot: David Ortiz, by Jay Jaffe]( New for the holidays is the Mug in white! [PRE-ORDER HERE]( [A Closer Look at Luis Robert’s Post-Injury Breakout]( by Luke Hooper [Thinking About Horizontal Approach Angle]( by Owen McGrattan [2022 ZiPS Projections: Detroit Tigers]( by Dan Szymborski [2022 ZiPS Projections: San Francisco Giants]( by Dan Szymborski [John Means, Potential Trade Target]( by Ben Clemens [JAWS and the 2022 Hall of Fame Ballot: Gary Sheffield]( by Jay Jaffe [Angels Prospect Jeremiah Jackson Can Juice a Baseball]( by David Laurila [Top 41 Prospects: Los Angeles Angels]( by Brendan Gawlowski and Eric Longenhagen ⚾️ OFFSEASON TRACKER While baseball is on pause, catch up on all of the last-minute player movement using the [RosterResource Free Agent Tracker](. [Los Angeles Dodgers celebrate TikTok dog Toby with 'Very Important Pup' experience at Dodger Stadium]( by Tory Barron, ESPN [On MLB-owned media, the players now barely exist. What’s behind that decision?]( by Stephen J. Nesbitt, Mike Vorkunov, and Evan Drellich, The Athletic ($) [Corey Seager, the Newest Texas Ranger]( by Noah Scott, Pitcher List [Seiya Suzuki has quite a market and will be a huge addition for an MLB team]( by Andrés Chávez, Beyond the Box Score [The billion-dollar day: Inside the wildest 24 hours in MLB free agency history]( by Jeff Passan, ESPN [@fangraphs]( [FanGraphs]( [FanGraphs]( [RSS]( [FORWARD]( [SUBSCRIBE]( Copyright © 2021 FanGraphs Inc, All rights reserved. You are receiving this email because you subscribed to the FanGraphs Newsletter. Our mailing address is: FanGraphs Inc 1200 N Hartford St. Apt 312Arlington, Va 22201 [Add us to your address book]( Want to change how you receive these emails? You can [update your preferences]( or [unsubscribe from this list](