Another updated look at the 2025 Cubs roster, payroll and luxury tax

2 days ago · Another updated look at the 2025 Cubs roster, payroll and luxury tax ... I thought it would be a good idea to take another look at the 2025 team payroll, projected roster and …

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Cubs Payroll Update: Where Are They After Kyle Tucker? - Bleacher …

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Dec 16, 2024 · So where are we for 2025? Let’s do some simple math, starting from where we were a few weeks ago, when the Cubs luxury tax payroll sat around $201M per Roster …

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How Much Money Do The Cubs Have Coming Off The Books After …

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Nov 28, 2023 · The story is good on the luxury tax side of things, too. Though Roster Resource has the 2024 Cubs estimated luxury tax payroll at $185.9M ($51.1M beneath the first tier of …

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Cubs’ Payroll Has Dropped $60 Million Even With Kyle Tucker

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2 days ago · While adding a top-of-the-market run-producer in Kyle Tucker, the Cubs have also cut their payroll by $60 million. They dropped 12 veterans who produced only 2.3 fWAR.

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Relative Spending Levels, Extension Hopes, Trades This Week, And …

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2 days ago · That $10 million difference – even if the Cubs aren’t actually paying it out in 2025 – would go on the 2025 payroll books for purposes of the luxury tax. It’d be as if the Cubs just …

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Is The Cubs' Long-Term Payroll Situation Another Reason To Spend ...

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Dec 7, 2021 · That brings our Cubs 2024 salary sub-total up to … $65-$70 million. Still not a lot. Throw in the rest of the 40-man roster salaries and the player benefits and insurance, ticking …

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How much is the 2025 Cubs luxury tax?

As you can see, the Cubs stand quite a bit below the first luxury tax level of $241 million for 2025. Here’s a deeper dive into the numbers from BCBer The Deputy Mayor of Rush Street. The rest of this post is his. The 2025 Cubs Roster: Jed Hoyer Deals the Last Hand of His Current Contract ...

Who will be on the Cubs Opening Day 2025 roster?

That’s six new players who will be on the Opening Day roster who weren’t in the Cubs organization when the 2024 season ended. In addition, the Opening Day 2025 roster will probably include Matt Shaw, the leading candidate to be the Opening Day third baseman. ...

How many Cubs players are in a 40-man roster?

The 40-man roster now stands at 39. (Note, these figures are for each player’s “cap hit,” the charge against the Cubs’ luxury tax spending level. The base luxury tax threshold is $241,000,000 for the 2024 season.) Players with Guaranteed Contracts (8+1): ...

Are the Cubs still working on the roster?

The Cubs aren’t done working on the roster. They remain in the sweepstakes for Japanese ace Roki Sasaki — another wunderkind — and need to add an experienced reliever to anchor the bullpen that includes ’24 revelations Porter Hodge and Tyson Miller. The guess is they’ll probably enter the season having cut the payroll by $40-45 million, not $60. ...

How much do the Chicago Cubs make a year?

Using figures from Cots Contracts, the website BrooksGate put together a recent post showing that the Cubs are one of six teams that currently are set to open ’25 with payrolls at least $60 million lower than their Opening Day figures in ’24. The Cubs are at $179.8 million, down from $239.9 million. ...

Did the Cubs leak over the luxury tax line?

The 2025 Cubs Roster: A Fresh Set of Eyes Has Some Thoughts FIRST, A WORD ON 2024 SPENDING: The Cubs spent all that money on a manager, but tried to hold the line on the luxury tax last season, despite starting last offseason within spitting distance of the tax threshold. Then they did the stupidest thing possible by just leaking over the tax line. ...