Let’s talk 2026 Texas Rangers payroll.

We don’t know how much the Rangers payroll is going to be in 2026. It appears likely that it will be less than it was in 2025, since part of the reason given for Bruce Bochy’s decision not to return as manager in 2026 was the team’s “financial uncertainty” for the upcoming offseason.

You may recall that the team had “financial uncertainty” last offseason, as well, due to the Bally Sports bankruptcy and the drama around the TV situation. It turned out that the Rangers decided to play The Price Is Right with the payroll for 2025, getting as close as possible to the first competitive balance tax threshold without going over.

The desire to avoid going over the competitive balance tax threshold in 2025 was supposedly to re-set the tax level after going

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