22 on the bonus list, netting an extra $539,046 - more than doubling his 2023 salary. These bonuses go to the top 100 players in the pre-arbitration pool, including award winners and nominees.
The CBA not only raised the MLB minimum salary from $570,500 to $700,000 in 2022, but also allowed players in pre-arbitration (usually players with less than three years of MLB service time) to earn performance-based bonuses. Thanks to MLB’s new Collective Bargaining Deal from 2022, rookies Nolan Jones and Ezequiel Tovar got some sweet bonuses to their 2023 salaries.
While the Rockies may not have a lot of good things going on in the payroll department with Bryant’s deal and an uncertain and certainly less lucrative TV future in 2024, there is some good news for two of the Rockies best players. In the Rocky Mountains, many Colorado fans are still lamenting Kris Bryant’s seven-year, $182 million deal that goes through 2028. Most of the baseball world is still digesting Shohei Ohtani’s 10-year, $700 million deal (that will actually pay out until 2043). When it comes to the Major League Baseball offseason, money is on everyone’s minds.