Every offseason, the primary focus for baseball fans is on trades and free agent activity. Naturally, major league free agent signings garner the majority of the attention and generate the most buzz. Minor league signees come with le s fanfare, typically with good reason. They tend to be older veterans who are looking to extend their playing careers or perhaps younger names looking to rebound from an injury or a disappointing showing the prior season (sometimes the prior few seasons). As spring training progre ses, were seeing an uptick in minor league signings. Free agents whove lingered on the market and Shawn Green Jersey felt their leverage in negotiations dry up begin to concede and accept non-guaranteed pacts to get to camp in hopes of winning a roster spot. Salary details for minor league signees isnt as prominently reported on as it is for players signing guaranteed big league deals. a list of free agent signings throughout the winter, including within salary details for a handful of (mostly) recent minor league signings. Many of the salaries reported by the AP were already known and reflected here at MLBTR, but the report does include more than two dozen previously unreported base salaries for players on minor league deals. Heres a quick rundown (player salary links point back to prior MLBTR posts detailing that minor league signing): Blue Jays: , RHP, | , LHP, Braves: , C, | , RHP, Brewers: , OF, | , 1B/OF, Cubs: , RHP, | , OF, | , RHP, Diamondbacks: , INF/OF, | , RHP, Dodgers: , RHP, Giants: , RHP, Mariners: , RHP, | , RHP, Padres: , 1B, ($100K higher than initially reported) Rangers: , SS, | , RHP, | , RHP, | , OF, Red Sox: , LHP, Royals: , C, | , RHP, White Sox: , INF/OF, | , RHP, A few things bear emphasizing. First, this is clearly not a comprehensive list of minor league signings throughout the league nor is it even a comprehensive list of the listed teams non-roster invitees to camp. Secondly, many of these sums are of little consequence to the team. Theyre not even guaranteed, after all, and even if a player makes the Opening Day roster and earns the full slate of his minor league salary, most of these salaries arent going to carry significant payroll ramifications. Thats not true acro s the board, though. For instance, the Rangers are fully intent on remaining under the $241MM luxury tax threshold. At present, them at $235.7MM of luxury obligations. Opting to select the contract of Buchanan or Chavez rather than allocating those innings to pre-arbitration players whos being paid at league-minimum levels (or a few thousand dollars north of it) would inch the Rangers CBT number forward. Theyre not going to hit the tax line even in if they wind up adding multiple NRIs to the actual roster, but selecting their contracts will further narrow the resources president of baseball ops Chris Young will have at his disposal for midseason dealings. The Red Sox, meanwhile, are effectively seated right at the tax threshold. with $241.4MM of luxury considerations. Team president Sam Kennedy said after signing that he . As things stand, the Sox could duck back under that threshold, but selecting the contract of Moore, (also $2MM) or another prominent NRI would further signal ownerships willingne s to return to luxury tax status for the first time since 2022. Theres probably no getting back under the tax line for the Blue Jays, who currently . However, the front office would presumably like to avoid reaching $281MM in tax obligations, as thats the point at which Torontos top pick in the 2026 draft would be dropped by ten spots. In-season trades will have more of an effect on their tax number than decisions on NRIs like Barnes, Yarbrough, and others, but it bears mentioning that the Blue Jays are around $8MM shy of what many clubs consider to be the most detrimental impact of straying to deep into CBT waters. Vernon Wells Jersey