The Phillies finished the 2024 season with the fourth-highest payroll in baseball. The three teams above them, the Mets, Dodgers and Yankees, all advanced to the League Championship Series. All three teams carried a payroll above $300 million.
Will that alone motivate the Phillies brass to significantly raise payroll in 2025? It’s hard to say for sure, according to Dave Dombrowski.
Dombrowski, in his yearly end-of-season news conference on Tuesday, claimed that he has not had any specific conversations with ownership about the upper limits of the 2025 payroll, but he doesn’t suspect to have any major restrictions.