Dodgers Agree to Split $46.5M from MLB-Record $129M Bonus Pool for 2024 Playoffs
The 2024 MLB playoffs set a new record with a $129.1 million bonus pool divided among the 14 teams in the field, with the World Series champion Los Angeles Dodgers receiving a total of $46.5 million.
Per the Associated Press (h/t ESPN.com), the Dodgers voted to receive 79 full shares, 17.49 partial shares and $405,000 in cash awards to make up their $46.5 million total.
The full postseason share for the Dodgers is $477,441, down from the total received by the Houston Astros in 2022 ($516,347) and Texas Rangers in 2023 ($506,263).
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Per MLB.com, each team that makes the playoffs receives a share of the money earned from postseason gate receipts.
The pool for players is formed from 50 percent of gate receipts from wild card games; 60 percent from the first three games of the Division Series; 60 percent from the first four games of the League Championship Series; and 60 percent from the first four games of the World Series.
Players on each team vote to determine how many full or partial shares to award to other club personnel.
Here is the pool breakdown based on how teams finish in the playoffs:
- World Series champion: 36 percent
- World Series loser: 24 percent
- LCS losers: 12 percent each
- Division Series losers: 3.3 percent
- Wild Card Series losers: 0.8 percent
The reason that the Dodgers' share is down from the previous two years, despite the total bonus pool setting a new record, is because they are giving out more total shares than the Astros and Rangers did.
Houston gave out 59 full shares, 14.14 partial shares and $940,000 in cash awards after defeating the Philadelphia Phillies in the 2022 World Series. The Rangers awarded the equivalent of 76.56 full shares after their victory over the Arizona Diamondbacks in last year's Fall Classic.
The New York Yankees, who lost to the Dodgers in the World Series, received $354,572 for a full share. Full shares for the 12 other playoff teams ranged from $9,548 for the Atlanta Braves to $182,663 for the Cleveland Guardians.
