Overview
- Pirates ace Paul Skenes led payouts at $3,436,343, including $2.5 million for winning the NL Cy Young, lifting his two-year total from the program to $5,588,400.
- Cristopher Sánchez ($2,678,437), Hunter Brown ($2,206,538) and Bryan Woo ($1,540,676) followed Skenes among top recipients, with Corbin Carroll at $1,341,674.
- Players receive a single highest award bonus (e.g., $2.5 million for MVP/Cy Young, $1 million for All-MLB first team), and remaining funds are allocated by a jointly agreed WAR metric.
- Milwaukee had a record 10 players receive bonuses and led team totals at $4,742,392, followed by Pittsburgh at $4,362,309 and Oakland at $3,103,411.
- Skenes is not arbitration-eligible until after 2026 and remains under team control for years, and despite outside trade chatter he has dismissed talk linking him to the Yankees with no move reported.