Scrape League Payroll Breakdowns from Spotrac
Source:R/sptrc_league_payrolls.R
sptrc_league_payrolls.RdThis function allows you to scrape each team's payroll from Spotrac.
Usage
sptrc_league_payrolls(year = most_recent_mlb_season())Value
A data frame of contract data.
| col_name | types | description |
| year | character | Payroll season. |
| team | character | Full team name. |
| team_abbr | character | Team abbreviation. |
| rank | numeric | League rank by total payroll allocations. |
| record | character | Team win-loss record for the season. |
| avg_age_team | character | Roster-weighted average age of the team. |
| total_payroll_allocations | numeric | Total payroll allocations across all roster statuses (USD). |
| active_26_man | numeric | Payroll allocated to the active 26-man roster (USD). |
| injured | numeric | Payroll allocated to players on the injured list (USD). |
| retained | numeric | Retained salary owed to players no longer on the roster (USD). |
| buried | numeric | Payroll for players assigned to the minors ("buried" contracts) (USD). |
Column names after rank mirror Spotrac's current league-payroll table and
may change as Spotrac updates its layout.
Examples
# \donttest{
try(sptrc_league_payrolls(year = most_recent_mlb_season()))
#> ── MLB Payroll data from Spotrac.com ──────────────── baseballr 2.0.0 ──
#> ℹ Data updated: 2026-08-27 10:44:19 UTC
#> # A tibble: 31 × 11
#> year team team_abbr rank record avg_age_team
#> <chr> <chr> <chr> <dbl> <chr> <chr>
#> 1 2026 NYM NYM 1 60-73 28.3
#> 2 2026 LAD LAD 2 80-53 30.5
#> 3 2026 NYY NYY 3 75-57 29.7
#> 4 2026 PHI PHI 4 74-60 30
#> 5 2026 TOR TOR 5 65-69 28.7
#> 6 2026 ATL ATL 6 78-55 29.9
#> 7 2026 CHC CHC 7 76-58 30.2
#> 8 2026 HOU HOU 8 66-67 29
#> 9 2026 SD SD 9 72-62 29.2
#> 10 2026 BOS BOS 10 73-60 29.2
#> # ℹ 21 more rows
#> # ℹ 5 more variables: total_payroll_allocations <dbl>,
#> # active_26_man <dbl>, injured <dbl>, retained <dbl>, buried <dbl>
# }