With last Friday’s exercise of Cole Hamels’ 2019 option for $20 million and the trade of Drew Smyly to the Rangers, the Cubs’ estimated payroll and luxury tax hits look like this:
Cubs estimated salaries and tax hits for 2019
Player | Salary | Tax hit |
---|---|---|
Player | Salary | Tax hit |
Jon Lester | $25,000,000 | $25,833,333 |
Jason Heyward | $20,000,000 | $23,000,000 |
Yu Darvish | $20,000,000 | $21,000,000 |
Cole Hamels | $20,000,000 | $20,000,000 |
Kris Bryant | $13,000,000 | $13,000,000 |
Tyler Chatwood | $12,500,000 | $12,666,667 |
Ben Zobrist | $12,000,000 | $14,000,000 |
Anthony Rizzo | $11,000,000 | $5,857,000 |
Jose Quintana | $10,500,000 | $10,500,000 |
Brandon Morrow | $9,000,000 | $10,500,000 |
Kyle Hendricks | $8,200,000 | $8,200,000 |
Steve Cishek | $6,500,000 | $6,500,000 |
Pedro Strop | $6,250,000 | $6,250,000 |
Javier Baez | $6,200,000 | $6,200,000 |
Brandon Kintzler | $5,000,000 | $5,000,000 |
Addison Russell | $4,250,000 | $4,250,000 |
Brian Duensing | $3,500,000 | $3,500,000 |
Kyle Schwarber | $3,200,000 | $3,200,000 |
Mike Montgomery | $2,300,000 | $2,300,000 |
Carl Edwards Jr. |