MLB just announced the postseason shares for this year and the players’ overall pool is a record total of $69.9 million. Nice.
That total gets divided among playoff participants, with Royals receiving $25,157,573.73 for winning the World Series and Mets getting $16,771,715.82 for finishing runner-up. That works out to $370,069.03 each for the Royals and $300,757.78 each for the Mets.
Jeffrey Flanagan of MLB.com reports that the Royals have issued full playoff shares to a total of 58 people, plus 8.37 partial shares and 50 “cash rewards.” In other words: There was a whole bunch of money to go around if you were in any way involved in the Royals’ championship run.
According to MLB public relations the previous high for the overall player pool was $65.4 million in 2012 and the Mets’ playoff share is the highest ever for a World Series-losing team, topping the Tigers’ share of $291,667.68 in 2006. Kansas City’s playoff share is slightly less than San Francisco received last year.
Here are the individual postseason share amounts by team:
Royals - $370,069.03
Mets - $300,757.78
Blue Jays - $141,834.40
Cubs - $122,327.59
Astros - $36,783.25
Cardinals - $34,223.65
Dodgers - $34,168.74
Rangers - $34,074.40
Pirates - $15,884.20
Yankees - $13,979.99