Today I am excited to announce a partnership between MLB Trade Rumors and Ethan Hullihen, bringing the most accurate MLB payroll information available to Trade Rumors Front Office subscribers.
You simply cannot find MLB payroll information anywhere on the Internet with Ethan’s level of detail and accuracy. The proof is in the numbers:
Now, MLBTR is licensing Ethan’s payroll data for our subscribers in our new MLB Payroll Tracker tool.
You can view payrolls at the team level here, plus 30 additional pages for each team. For example, this is the Mets page.
Why are these estimates so much closer?
An unparallelled understanding of MLB’s wide array of rules and their application leads to information others are missing. Plus, small details matter a lot when you’re trying to get team payrolls right.
Ethan tracks payroll in both LRD (Labor Relations Department, also known as “cash” payroll) as well as CBT (Competitive Balance Tax). Every player and salary bucket is accounted for. Real sourced major and minor league salaries you won’t find anywhere else are included, rather than the estimates everyone else is using. Every single move made is accounted for and service time is tracked in-season, with remaining contractual control updated after every transaction, resulting in an unsurpassed level of accuracy and detail.
I mean this as a compliment: you need an absolute freak to track MLB payrolls as well as Ethan does. As soon as I grasped his level of obsession with this, I knew we needed to license his data for Trade Rumors Front Office.
Our MLB Payroll Tracker is updated dynamically three times per week, and is the new definitive public source for this information. If you don’t literally work for an MLB team or agency, you won’t find anything this accurate! Don’t settle for “good enough” when others trying to do this are routinely anywhere from 5-10% off with their figures. Sign up for Trade Rumors Front Office today to start using our MLB Payroll Tracker! We’ve designed the paywall so that you can play around with this tool a little bit to see what it’s like.
It’s my mission to pack as much value as possible into a Trade Rumors Front Office subscription, which still costs just $34.99 per year. Here’s what that buys you in addition to the new MLB Payroll Tracker:
- Ad-free, faster viewing experience on MLB Trade Rumors, Hoops Rumors, Pro Football Rumors, Pro Hockey Rumors, and in the Trade Rumors iOS/Android app
- Exclusive weekly hot stove articles from expert MLB writers Steve Adams, Anthony Franco, and Darragh McDonald
- Exclusive member-only online chats with Steve and Anthony every week
- Fantasy baseball live chats from Nicklaus Gaut before and during the season
- MLB Contract Tracker: a high-powered tool featuring 20+ years of free agent contracts and extensions
- MLB GM Tracker: GM tenures for all 30 teams dating back to 2000, with links to each GM’s contract history
- MLB Agency Database: agencies for more than three-quarters of those who played in MLB in the last three seasons, compiled from industry sources
- Trade Rumors Front Office comes with a money-back guarantee! We have designed this to remove all risk – we will refund your money if you’re dissatisfied. We’ve also got a $3.99 monthly option (also refundable) if you’re not a fan of annual commitments.
MLBTR is proud to partner with Ethan Hullihen to license his payroll data, and we are thrilled to include this in your Trade Rumors Front Office subscription. If you’re interested in additional information, check out Ethan’s Patreon, which is not affiliated with MLBTR or Trade Rumors Front Office, and follow Ethan on X/Twitter.
