Blue Jays To Pay $13.6 Million Luxury Tax Bill for 2025

[Leo Morgenstern]

On Friday, the Associated Press reported that nine teams, including the Toronto Blue Jays, will pay the competitive balance tax for the 2025 MLB season. Toronto's bill came in at $13,609,719 on a $286,135,551 CBT payroll.

The Blue Jays avoided paying the luxury tax in 2024, so they were able to reset their penalties. That means that, unlike the Dodgers, Mets, Yankees, Phillies, Astros, and Rangers, the Blue Jays did not face a higher charge for having exceeded the CBT threshold in consecutive seasons. However, they will still pay the fifth-highest luxury tax bill in the league, and their top pick in next year's draft will be moved back 10 spots because their payroll exceeded the third threshold of $281 million.

In 2026, the third threshold will rise to $284 million, but the Blue Jays are already well past that number, according to RosterResource. With an estimated CBT payroll of around $294 million, there is a very good chance that Toronto will be over the fourth (and highest) luxury tax threshold by the end of next season. 

Featured image courtesy of Nick Turchiaro, Imagn Images.

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[Stangstag]

Its nice to have a payroll like a large-market team should

[Eat My Shatkins]

Hopefully next years luxury tax bill is a whopper. Just need a couple more dudes to sign on the dotted line.

[L54]

Rogers is always strapped with liquid cash 13M is chump change to them

 

 

[Laika]

The Blue Jays have corporate pockets and now a personally invested "owner" as well in Ed Rogers

Somehow it's the best of both worlds and a dream scenario 

Ed will push for money to be spent on the team forever but he literally does not have the power to meddle 

[Jonn]

That's literally a drop in the bucket for Rogers lol

[The_DH]

Definitely worth it for all the other benefits they received.

[G-Snarls]

3 hours ago, L54 said:

Rogers is always strapped with liquid cash 13M is chump change to them

 

 

Chat GPT sez:

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What it means in Rogers Communications terms

Using Rogers’ scale (2024 results) and a recent market cap snapshot:

Against annual revenue (~$20B CAD):

$13.6M is about 0.07% of revenue. �

About Rogers

Against annual net income (~$1.27B):

$13.6M is about 1.1% of net income. �

Macrotrends

Against market value (~$27.3B CAD):

$13.6M is about 0.05% of market cap — basically immaterial to valuation. �

StockAnalysis

So: financially tiny for Rogers overall, even if it’s noticeable inside the Blue Jays’ own budget.

[G-Snarls]

So yes it's a rounding error essentially 

They really should go all in for 2026 before trying to get back under the threshold if they feel this necessary

[glory]

We need to hope for the owners and players to do what they did 5 years ago and just agree to an altered version of the existing CBA. Rogers and the Jays (if management is good) could be a monster in this system with a consistent top 2-3 payroll every year. I really don't think a salary cap is happening regardless, nor do I think either side will be willing to lose games over it, but either way, this system works very well for the Jays + their front office. 

[Joltin Joe]

The Pittsburgh Pirates fund. Who makes 100 million a year and not even trying to win.