The 2020 Major League Baseball season was like no other, the COVID-19 pandemic keeping fans out of the stands and limiting the season to just 60 regular season games. A protracted battle between MLB and the MLB Players Association about how much proration would go into their playing through risk meant that payrolls, as we’d come to know them, ended up much, much smaller than they’d have been over a normal 162-game schedule, but the fact remains that the Cincinnati Reds were set to roll out a team in 2020 that, by Competitive Balance Tax accounting, was set to earn some $165.
How low could the Cincinnati Reds payroll go?
