Who Is The Highest Paid Blue Jay?

The Toronto Blue Jays haven’t been among the top third of teams in terms of salary for a while, but in 2022 the team will run a top-10 Opening Day budget for the first time since 2017.

Over the past three offseasons, the Blue Jays have gradually added a number of expensive contracts. Regardless of whether it was Hyun-Jin Ryu’s $80 million agreement, George Springer’s $150 million agreement, or Kevin Gausman’s $110 million agreement with the Blue Jays.

The club’s young core will increase the Blue Jays’ budget as they move into arbitration, as shown by Vladimir Guerrero’s significant raise to $7.9 million from just north of 600K last year.

Although they haven’t yet reached the level of the Los Angeles Dodgers or New York Mets, the Blue Jays are on the verge of returning to their 2015–2016 heyday, when Toronto was one of baseball’s largest spenders.

Who Is The Highest Paid Blue Jay?

Currently, George Springer sits at the top of the Blue Jays payroll with a salary of $29.66M.

Here is a look at each player’s salary for the Blue Jays in 2022.

Player	Salary	Position	Age
George Springer	$29.66M	CF	32
Kevin Gausman	$21M	SP	31
Hyun-Jin Ryu	$20M	SP	35
Yusei Kikuchi	$16M	SP	31
Matt Chapman	$12.5M	3B	29
Jose Berrios	$10.714M	SP	28
Teoscar Hernandez	$10.65M	RF/OF	29
Vladimir Guerrero Jr.	$7.9M	1B	23
Lourdes Gurriel Jr.	$4.928M	LF/OF	28
Yimi Garcia	$4.5M	RP	31
Raimel Tapia	$3.95M	OF	28
Ross Stripling	$3.79M	RP/SP	32
Cavan Biggio	$2.12M	2B/3B/OF	27
Danny Jansen	$1.95M	CF	27
David Phelps	$1.75M	RP	35
Adam Cimber	$1.575M	RP	31
Tim Mayza	$1.25M	RP	30
Trevor Richards	$1M	RP	29
Trent Thornton	$900,000	RP	28
Ryan Borucki (injured)	$825,000	RP	28
Jordan Romano	$728,400	RP	29
Bo Bichette	$723,550	SS	24
Santiago Espinal	$718,000	2B/3B	27
Julian Merryweather	$711,200	RP	30
Alejandro Kirk	$710,400	C	23
Nate Pearson (injured)	$710,300	RP/SP	25
Tayler Saucedo	$707,500	RP	29
Alek Manoah	$706,200	SP	24
Gosuke Katoh	$700,000	IF/LF/RF	27
Zack Collins	$700,000	C	27