Expensive neighborhood
For the first time, baseball will have seven teams with payrolls of at least $100 million:
| Team | Payroll in | Change |
| millions | from 2006 | |
| Yankees | $189.6 | -3 percent |
| Red Sox | $143 | +19 percent |
| Mets | $115.2 | +14 percent |
| Angels | $109.2 | +6 percent |
| White Sox | $108.6 | +6 percent |
| Dodgers | $108.4 | +10 percent |
| Mariners | $106.4 | +21 percent |