MLB All-Stars react to Dodgers' massive $400 million payroll for 2026 season: 'I f---ing love it'

The Los Angeles Dodgers are heading into the 2026 play looking to triumph their 3rd consecutive World Series, and erstwhile again, they added All-Star players to an already stacked 40-man roster.

As a result, galore successful the shot satellite person grumbled and groaned astir the monolithic spending Los Angeles is doing connected the unfastened market. But determination is the different broadside of the argument: How bash players connected different teams consciousness astir the ace squad the Dodgers and GM Brandon Gomes person been capable to enactment together?

"I f---ing emotion it," San Diego Padres prima 3rd baseman Manny Machado told reporters astatine outpouring grooming erstwhile asked astir the Dodgers heading into the caller year. "I emotion it. I mean, honestly, I deliberation each squad should beryllium doing it. They’ve figured retired a mode to bash it, and it’s f---ing large for the game."

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Manny Machado of the San Diego Padres looks connected during warms up anterior to the crippled against the Chicago Cubs successful crippled 3 of the National League Wild Card Series astatine Wrigley Field connected Oct. 2, 2025 successful Chicago, Illinois. (Michael Reaves/Getty Images)

Philadelphia Phillies All-Star Bryce Harper shares Machado’s sentiment.

"I emotion what the Dodgers do, honestly," helium said astatine his team’s Clearwater installation this week. "They wage the money. They walk the money. They’re a large team. They tally their squad similar a business. And they tally it the close way."

The Dodgers caput into the 2026 play with a monolithic $400 cardinal payroll, though determination are teams adjacent behind. The New York Mets are 2nd with a projected $368.3 million, followed by the New York Yankees astatine $333.25 million.

But the Phillies are 4th connected the database ($311.18 million), and the Padres are sixth ($257.84 million), and Machado and Harper person some cashed successful connected monolithic contracts implicit their careers. Of course, those contracts were rightfully earned for some players.

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Los Angeles has taken the spending to a antithetic level, though, which has led a radical of shot fans to accidental the Dodgers are ruining baseball. The information the corporate bargaining statement expires connected Dec. 1, 2026 makes things adjacent much interesting, arsenic an MLB lockout could beryllium successful the works with a wage headdress statement astir surely astatine the halfway of aboriginal negotiations.

However, the words of Machado and Harper amusement however overmuch the players bask the Dodgers spending money. As they some said, the Dodgers’ spending is what they privation to spot because, ultimately, that means their peers are being paid the wealth they consciousness they’re worth.

At the aforesaid time, smaller marketplace teams are incapable to walk the mode the Dodgers and ample marketplace teams do. That argument, however, isn’t 1 Machado finds reasonable.

Bryce Harper of the Philadelphia Phillies arrives astatine Citizens Bank Park anterior to Game Two of the National League Division Series presented by Booking.com betwixt the Los Angeles Dodgers and the Philadelphia Phillies connected Monday, Oct. 6, 2025 successful Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (Trevor Hayes/MLB Photos)

"I deliberation each squad has the quality to bash it," helium said. "So, I anticipation each 30 teams tin larn from that."

Harper added: "Each squad successful shot has an accidental to bash the aforesaid thing. Maybe not astatine the precocious echelon of money. But they tin draft, they tin develop, they tin trade. I don’t know, I deliberation a batch of teams tin bash that successful baseball. And they should."

Los Angeles Dodgers President of Baseball Operations Andrew Friedman holds the trophy during a ceremonial aft the Los Angeles Dodgers defeated the Milwaukee Brewers 5-1 successful crippled 4 of the National League Championship Series astatine Dodger Stadium connected Oct. 17, 2025 successful Los Angeles, California. (Sean M. Haffey/Getty Images)

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The Dodgers’ latest big-name acquisitions were outfielder Kyle Tucker, who signed a whopping four-year, $240 cardinal deal, and person Edwin Diaz, who came aboard connected a three-year, $69 cardinal contract.

Los Angeles defended their rubric successful a thrilling seven-game World Series bout with the Toronto Blue Jays this past season.

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