MLB Positional Spending
Starting Pitcher Spending
A real-time look at how MLB teams are spending their 2021 cap dollars on Starting Pitchers.
Team Payroll Allocation: Active Roster
| Rank | Team | Signed | 2021 Payroll Dollars | % of 2021 Payroll |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | WSHWashington Nationals | 5 | $85,991,575 | 57.77% |
| 2 | NYMNew York Mets | 6 | $67,800,000 | 40.62% |
| 3 | HOUHouston Astros | 6 | $64,166,667 | 41.72% |
| 4 | NYYNew York Yankees | 7 | $62,130,000 | 34.27% |
| 5 | LADLos Angeles Dodgers | 5 | $54,350,000 | 27.89% |
| 6 | BOSBoston Red Sox | 6 | $49,800,000 | 33.68% |
| 7 | SFSan Francisco Giants | 6 | $48,900,000 | 35.64% |
| 8 | PHIPhiladelphia Phillies | 5 | $43,200,000 | 30.93% |
| 9 | TORToronto Blue Jays | 5 | $43,000,000 | 41.98% |
| 10 | SDSan Diego Padres | 6 | $42,250,000 | 27.57% |
| 11 | STLSt. Louis Cardinals | 6 | $35,050,000 | 29.68% |
| 12 | ATLAtlanta Braves | 6 | $31,950,000 | 28.33% |
| 13 | CHWChicago White Sox | 5 | $31,483,334 | 26.14% |
| 14 | CINCincinnati Reds | 5 | $29,004,166 | 26.26% |
| 15 | MINMinnesota Twins | 5 | $26,661,000 | 30.52% |
| 16 | KCKansas City Royals | 5 | $25,850,000 | 33.49% |
| 17 | LAALos Angeles Angels | 6 | $25,575,000 | 15.70% |
| 18 | SEASeattle Mariners | 6 | $23,450,000 | 40.97% |
| 19 | CHCChicago Cubs | 5 | $22,630,000 | 17.66% |
| 20 | COLColorado Rockies | 6 | $21,825,000 | 16.85% |
| 21 | ARIArizona Diamondbacks | 5 | $21,665,000 | 29.08% |
| 22 | TEXTexas Rangers | 6 | $20,600,000 | 31.31% |
| 23 | DETDetroit Tigers | 5 | $12,850,000 | 20.32% |
| 24 | OAKOakland Athletics | 6 | $12,650,000 | 19.66% |
| 25 | TBTampa Bay Rays | 8 | $11,075,000 | 25.32% |
| 26 | BALBaltimore Orioles | 5 | $10,250,000 | 23.87% |
| 27 | MILMilwaukee Brewers | 5 | $6,316,666 | 8.93% |
| 28 | PITPittsburgh Pirates | 4 | $4,180,000 | 11.07% |
| 29 | CLECleveland Indians | 5 | $0 | 0.00% |
| 30 | MIAMiami Marlins | 5 | $0 | 0.00% |
| Total | 166 | $934,653,408 | 29.57% | |
| Average | 6 | $31,155,114 | 26.91% |
| Rank | Player | 2021 Payroll Dollars | % of 2021 Payroll | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 
|
Madison Bumgarner | $19,000,000 | 18.79% |
| 2 | 
|
Merrill Kelly | $4,250,000 | 5.71% |
| 3 | 
|
Luke Weaver | $1,950,000 | 2.62% |
| 4 | 
|
Caleb Smith | $1,465,000 | 1.97% |
| 5 | 
|
Zac Gallen | $0 | 0.00% |
| 6 | 
|
Charlie Morton | $15,000,000 | 13.30% |
| 7 | 
|
Drew Smyly | $11,000,000 | 9.76% |
| 8 | 
|
Max Fried | $3,500,000 | 3.10% |
| 9 | 
|
Michael Soroka | $2,450,000 | 2.17% |
| 10 | 
|
Ian Anderson | $0 | 0.00% |
|
Kyle Wright | $0 | 0.00% | |
| 12 | 
|
Alex Cobb | $15,000,000 | 23.87% |
| 13 | 
|
Keegan Akin | $0 | 0.00% |
|
Dean Kremer | $0 | 0.00% | |
|
John Means | $0 | 0.00% | |
|
Bruce Zimmermann | $0 | 0.00% | |
| 17 | 
|
Chris Sale | $30,000,000 | 13.53% |
| 18 | 
|
Nathan Eovaldi | $17,000,000 | 11.50% |
| 19 | 
|
Eduardo Rodriguez | $8,300,000 | 5.61% |
| 20 | 
|
Martin Perez | $4,500,000 | 3.04% |
| 21 | 
|
Nick Pivetta | $0 | 0.00% |
|
Garrett Richards | $0 | 0.00% | |
| 23 | 
|
Kyle Hendricks | $14,000,000 | 10.93% |
| 24 | 
|
Zach Davies | $8,630,000 | 6.73% |
| 25 | 
|
Adbert Alzolay | $0 | 0.00% |
|
Tyson Miller | $0 | 0.00% | |
|
Alec Mills | $0 | 0.00% | |
| 28 | 
|
Dallas Keuchel | $18,000,000 | 14.94% |
| 29 | 
|
Lance Lynn | $9,333,334 | 7.75% |
| 30 | 
|
Lucas Giolito | $4,150,000 | 3.45% |
| 31 | 
|
Dylan Cease | $0 | 0.00% |
|
Michael Kopech | $0 | 0.00% | |
| 33 | 
|
Sonny Gray | $10,166,666 | 9.21% |
| 34 | 
|
Wade Miley | $8,000,000 | 7.24% |
| 35 | 
|
Michael Lorenzen | $4,437,500 | 4.02% |
| 36 | 
|
Luis Castillo | $4,200,000 | 3.80% |
| 37 | 
|
Tyler Mahle | $2,200,000 | 1.99% |
| 38 | 
|
Logan Allen | $0 | 0.00% |
|
Shane Bieber | $0 | 0.00% | |
|
Aaron Civale | $0 | 0.00% | |
|
Triston McKenzie | $0 | 0.00% | |
|
Zach Plesac | $0 | 0.00% | |
| 43 | 
|
German Marquez | $7,800,000 | 6.02% |
| 44 | 
|
Jon Gray | $6,000,000 | 4.63% |
| 45 | 
|
Kyle Freeland | $5,025,000 | 3.88% |
| 46 | 
|
Antonio Senzatela | $3,000,000 | 2.32% |
| 47 | 
|
Ryan Castellani | $0 | 0.00% |
|
Peter Lambert | $0 | 0.00% | |
| 49 | 
|
Matt Boyd | $6,500,000 | 10.28% |
| 50 | 
|
Jose Urena | $3,250,000 | 5.14% |
| 51 | 
|
Michael Fulmer | $3,100,000 | 4.90% |
| 52 | 
|
Tarik Skubal | $0 | 0.00% |
|
Spencer Turnbull | $0 | 0.00% | |
| 54 | 
|
Zack Greinke | $35,000,000 | 16.04% |
| 55 | 
|
Justin Verlander | $33,000,000 | 21.46% |
| 56 | 
|
Lance McCullers | $6,500,000 | 4.23% |
| 57 | 
|
Cristian Javier | $0 | 0.00% |
|
Jose Urquidy | $0 | 0.00% | |
|
Framber Valdez | $0 | 0.00% | |
| 60 | 
|
Danny Duffy | $15,500,000 | 20.08% |
| 61 | 
|
Mike Minor | $7,000,000 | 9.07% |
| 62 | 
|
Brad Keller | $3,350,000 | 4.34% |
| 63 | 
|
Kris Bubic | $0 | 0.00% |
|
Brady Singer | $0 | 0.00% | |
| 65 | 
|
Dylan Bundy | $8,325,000 | 5.11% |
| 66 | 
|
Jose Quintana | $8,000,000 | 4.91% |
| 67 | 
|
Andrew Heaney | $6,750,000 | 4.14% |
| 68 | 
|
Shohei Ohtani | $2,500,000 | 1.53% |
| 69 | 
|
Jaime Barria | $0 | 0.00% |
|
Griffin Canning | $0 | 0.00% | |
| 71 | 
|
David Price | $32,000,000 | 8.21% |
| 72 | 
|
Clayton Kershaw | $31,000,000 | 15.91% |
| 73 | 
|
Walker Buehler | $3,750,000 | 1.92% |
| 74 | 
|
Julio Urias | $3,600,000 | 1.85% |
| 75 | 
|
Dustin May | $0 | 0.00% |
|
Sandy Alcantara | $0 | 0.00% | |
|
Elieser Hernandez | $0 | 0.00% | |
|
Pablo Lopez | $0 | 0.00% | |
|
Trevor Rogers | $0 | 0.00% | |
|
Sixto Sanchez | $0 | 0.00% | |
| 81 | 
|
Brandon Woodruff | $3,275,000 | 4.63% |
| 82 | 
|
Josh Lindblom | $3,041,666 | 4.30% |
| 83 | 
|
Corbin Burnes | $0 | 0.00% |
|
Adrian Houser | $0 | 0.00% | |
|
Eric Lauer | $0 | 0.00% | |
| 86 | 
|
Michael Pineda | $10,000,000 | 11.45% |
| 87 | 
|
J.A. Happ | $8,000,000 | 9.16% |
| 88 | 
|
Jose Berrios | $6,100,000 | 6.98% |
| 89 | 
|
Kenta Maeda | $3,125,000 | 2.93% |
| 90 | 
|
Randy Dobnak | $0 | 0.00% |
| 91 | 
|
Jacob deGrom | $36,000,000 | 13.18% |
| 92 | 
|
Marcus Stroman | $18,900,000 | 11.32% |
| 93 | 
|
Carlos Carrasco | $12,000,000 | 7.19% |
| 94 | 
|
Noah Syndergaard | $9,700,000 | 5.81% |
| 95 | 
|
Steven Matz | $5,200,000 | 3.12% |
| 96 | 
|
David Peterson | $0 | 0.00% |
| 97 | 
|
Gerrit Cole | $36,000,000 | 19.86% |
| 98 | 
|
Corey Kluber | $11,000,000 | 6.07% |
| 99 | 
|
Luis Severino | $10,750,000 | 5.93% |
| 100 | 
|
Jameson Taillon | $2,250,000 | 1.24% |
| 101 | 
|
Jordan Montgomery | $2,130,000 | 1.17% |
| 102 | 
|
Deivi Garcia | $0 | 0.00% |
|
Domingo German | $0 | 0.00% | |
| 104 | 
|
Sean Manaea | $5,950,000 | 9.25% |
| 105 | 
|
Chris Bassitt | $4,900,000 | 7.62% |
| 106 | 
|
Frankie Montas | $1,800,000 | 2.80% |
| 107 | 
|
Daulton Jefferies | $0 | 0.00% |
|
Jesus Luzardo | $0 | 0.00% | |
|
A.J. Puk | $0 | 0.00% | |
| 110 | 
|
Zack Wheeler | $22,500,000 | 16.11% |
| 111 | 
|
Aaron Nola | $12,250,000 | 8.77% |
| 112 | 
|
Zach Eflin | $4,450,000 | 3.19% |
| 113 | 
|
Vincent Velasquez | $4,000,000 | 2.86% |
| 114 | 
|
Spencer Howard | $0 | 0.00% |
| 115 | 
|
Chad Kuhl | $2,130,000 | 5.64% |
| 116 | 
|
Steven Brault | $2,050,000 | 5.43% |
| 117 | 
|
JT Brubaker | $0 | 0.00% |
|
Mitch Keller | $0 | 0.00% | |
| 119 | 
|
Yu Darvish | $22,000,000 | 12.40% |
| 120 | 
|
Blake Snell | $11,100,000 | 7.24% |
| 121 | 
|
Joe Musgrove | $4,450,000 | 2.90% |
| 122 | 
|
Dinelson Lamet | $4,200,000 | 2.74% |
| 123 | 
|
Mike Clevinger | $3,500,000 | 2.28% |
| 124 | 
|
Chris Paddack | $0 | 0.00% |
| 125 | 
|
Johnny Cueto | $21,000,000 | 15.30% |
| 126 | 
|
Kevin Gausman | $18,900,000 | 13.77% |
| 127 | 
|
Anthony DeSclafani | $6,000,000 | 4.37% |
| 128 | 
|
Alex Wood | $3,000,000 | 2.19% |
| 129 | 
|
Tyler Beede | $0 | 0.00% |
|
Logan Webb | $0 | 0.00% | |
| 131 | 
|
Yusei Kikuchi | $16,500,000 | 28.83% |
| 132 | 
|
Marco Gonzales | $5,250,000 | 9.17% |
| 133 | 
|
Chris Flexen | $1,700,000 | 2.97% |
| 134 | 
|
Justin Dunn | $0 | 0.00% |
|
Nick Margevicius | $0 | 0.00% | |
|
Justus Sheffield | $0 | 0.00% | |
| 137 | 
|
Miles Mikolas | $16,750,000 | 14.19% |
| 138 | 
|
Carlos Martinez | $11,700,000 | 9.91% |
| 139 | 
|
Kwang-hyun Kim | $4,000,000 | 3.39% |
| 140 | 
|
Jack Flaherty | $2,600,000 | 2.20% |
| 141 | 
|
Austin Gomber | $0 | 0.00% |
|
Dakota Hudson | $0 | 0.00% | |
| 143 | 
|
Tyler Glasnow | $4,000,000 | 9.14% |
| 144 | 
|
Michael Wacha | $3,000,000 | 6.86% |
| 145 | 
|
Ryan Yarbrough | $2,900,000 | 6.63% |
| 146 | 
|
Yonny Chirinos | $1,175,000 | 2.69% |
| 147 | 
|
Josh Fleming | $0 | 0.00% |
|
Brent Honeywell | $0 | 0.00% | |
|
Brendan McKay | $0 | 0.00% | |
|
Trevor Richards | $0 | 0.00% | |
| 151 | 
|
Kyle Gibson | $10,000,000 | 15.20% |
| 152 | 
|
Jordan Lyles | $8,000,000 | 12.16% |
| 153 | 
|
Kohei Arihara | $2,600,000 | 3.95% |
| 154 | 
|
Kolby Allard | $0 | 0.00% |
|
Brock Burke | $0 | 0.00% | |
|
Dane Dunning | $0 | 0.00% | |
| 157 | 
|
Hyun-Jin Ryu | $20,000,000 | 19.53% |
| 158 | 
|
Tanner Roark | $12,000,000 | 11.72% |
| 159 | 
|
Robbie Ray | $8,000,000 | 7.81% |
| 160 | 
|
Ross Stripling | $3,000,000 | 2.93% |
| 161 | 
|
Nate Pearson | $0 | 0.00% |
| 162 | 
|
Stephen Strasburg | $35,000,000 | 15.84% |
| 163 | 
|
Max Scherzer | $34,503,480 | 23.18% |
| 164 | 
|
Patrick Corbin | $24,416,666 | 16.40% |
| 165 | 
|
Jon Lester | $2,000,000 | 1.34% |
| 166 | 
|
Joe Ross | $1,500,000 | 1.01% |