How Much Money Does Manny Machado Make A Year

Under-promise. Over-deliver.

That was new ownership's creed when the Ron Fowler-Seidler family partnership grabbed the Padres' reins in August 2012.

Nine years later, the Padres are entering the 2021 season with a franchise-record $180-million opening-day payroll, more than two-and-half times the money spent on their first opening day roster.

Under new ownership, those figures swelled from $68.3 million in 2013 to $90 million in 2014 to $108.4 million in 2015 before General Manager A.J. Preller began his teardown. After dropping to $69.6 million in 2017, payroll surged to more than $94 million in both 2018 and 2019 and would have topped $140 million last year had the COVID-19 pandemic not shaved two-thirds of the season off the calendar.

Preller doubled down of the first Padres playoff team since 2006 by adding significant payroll this offseason in the form of right-hander Yu Darvish ($22 million in 2021) and left-hander Blake Snell ($10.5 million), bringing back utilityman Jurickson Profar via a three-year, $21 million pact that will pay him $4.5 million this year and signing Korean star Ha-seong Kim to a four-year, $28 million deal.

Kim's deal includes a $4 million signing bonus dispersed equally over the life of a contract that begins with him receiving a $4 million base salary in 2021. That base jumps $1 million each year. The Padres hold a $2 million buyout against an $8 million mutual option for 2025.

Preller's offseason finale: Fernando Tatis Jr.'s 14-year, $340 million deal, an agreement with an escalating pay scale that starts with Tatis collecting the entirety of his $10 million signing bonus on top of this year's $1 million base salary.

All that activity comes on the heals of signing Wil Myers, ($83 million over six years), Eric Hosmer ($144 million over eight years) and Manny Machado ($300 million over 10 years) to the richest contracts in franchise history in consecutive seasons.

They represent three of the Padres' four biggest payroll commitments in 2021, with Machado earning $30 million and Hosmer and Myers each due $20 million.

Seventeen players on the roster will make more $2 million or more in 2021, including four pitchers on the injured list to start the season: Dinelson Lamet ($4.2 million), Matt Strahm ($2.05 million), Mike Clevinger ($2 million) and Pierce Johnson ($2 million).

Fifteen players with fewer than three years service time will make less than $611,000.

The complete breakdown of the opening day payroll — which includes a $5.525 million release fee paid to Kim's previous team in Korea and 10 players on the injured list — is below: