That means there’s plenty of money to go around this year, and altogether MLB is awarding a grand total of $88 million to the lineup of teams that made the 2018 playoffs. Here’s how the rest of the bonuses, apart from the Red Sox’s $31.7 million, shook out on a per-player basis: The Los Angeles Dodgers — $267,027.49 per player The Houston Astros — $154,656.05 Per Player The Milwaukee Brewers — $122,957.13 Per Player The Atlanta Braves — $40,375.74 Per Player The Cleveland Indians — $37,040.29 Per Player The Colorado Rockies — $40,335.96 Per Player The New York Yankees — $43,081.55 Per Player The Chicago Cubs — $16,155.34 Per Player The Oakland Athletics — $19,760.35 Per Player In case you’re interested in how the MLB bonus pool is determined, it’s actually based on the gate receipts at each of the playoff games, with separate pools for Wild Card games, the Division Series, the League Championship Series, and the World Series. The bonuses are calculated as 50 percent of the total gate receipts for the Wild Card games, 60 percent of the first three Division Series games, 60 percent of the first four League Championship games, and 60 percent of the first four World Series games, tabulated in such a way as to avoid incentivizing any teams or players from trying to stretch out the length of a series for financial reasons. Individual shares, on the other hand, are voted on by the teams themselves, with full or partial shares sometimes going to people outside the core full season rosters.
