Scrape Team Active Payroll Breakdown from Spotrac — sptrc_team_active

This function allows you to scrape a team's active payroll from Spotrac.

Usage

sptrc_team_active_payroll(team_abbr, year = most_recent_mlb_season())

Arguments

team_abbr: Team abbreviation
year: Year to load

Value

A data frame of contract data.

col_name	types	description
year	numeric	Payroll season.
team	character	Team abbreviation supplied to the function.
player_name	character	Player name.
roster_status	character	Payroll table the row came from: Active, IL, or Retained Salary.
pos	character	Player position.
exp	character	Years of MLB service experience.
options_minor	character	Remaining minor-league option years.
status	character	Contract status (e.g. signed, arbitration, pre-arbitration).
payroll_salary	numeric	Salary counted against the team payroll (USD).
payroll_salary_adjusted	numeric	Payroll salary adjusted for prorated and retained amounts (USD).
base_salary	numeric	Player base salary for the season (USD).
signing_bonus	numeric	Signing bonus allocated to the season (USD).
waiver_options	character	Waiver and option flags reported by Spotrac.

Columns after roster_status mirror Spotrac's current payroll table and may change as Spotrac updates its layout.

Examples

# \donttest{
 try(sptrc_team_active_payroll(team_abbr = "BAL", year = most_recent_mlb_season()))
#> ── MLB Active Payroll data from Spotrac.com ───────── baseballr 2.0.0 ──
#> ℹ Data updated: 2026-06-08 11:10:35 UTC
#> # A tibble: 38 × 18
#>     year team  player_name      roster_status pos   exp   options_minor
#>    <dbl> <chr> <chr>            <chr>         <chr> <chr> <chr>        
#>  1  2026 BAL   Pete Alonso      Active        1B    7     n/a          
#>  2  2026 BAL   Chris Bassitt    Active        SP    9.13  n/a          
#>  3  2026 BAL   Tyler O'Neill    Active        RF    7.059 n/a          
#>  4  2026 BAL   Taylor Ward      Active        LF    5.164 n/a          
#>  5  2026 BAL   Andrew Kittredge Active        RP    7.07  n/a          
#>  6  2026 BAL   Gunnar Henderson Active        SS    3.036 3            
#>  7  2026 BAL   Adley Rutschman  Active        C     4     3            
#>  8  2026 BAL   Trevor Rogers    Active        SP    5.047 n/a          
#>  9  2026 BAL   Kyle Bradish     Active        SP    3.16  2            
#> 10  2026 BAL   Keegan Akin      Active        RP    5.083 n/a          
#> # ℹ 28 more rows
#> # ℹ 11 more variables: status <chr>, payroll_salary <dbl>,
#> #   payroll_salary_adjusted <dbl>, base_salary <dbl>,
#> #   signing_bonus <dbl>, x <chr>, x_2 <chr>, x_3 <chr>, x_4 <chr>,
#> #   x_5 <chr>, waiver_options <chr>
# }