Major League Baseball payrolls dropped to $1.75 billion during the pandemic-shortened season from $4.22 billion.

The Los Angeles Dodgers led baseball with a $98.6 million payroll -- the smallest figure for the top spender in 20 years.

Base salaries were reduced to 60/162 of the original amount due to the shortened schedule as part of an agreement between MLB and the players' association following the interruption of spring training by the novel coronavirus.