April 2026 DMB Salary Update Analysis

March 20 export vs. April 28 export · Classic Standard player pool · hitters, pitchers, RC/600, and biggest movers

What Changed

Position Slices: Hitters

RC/600 Slices

Read this table in two ways: Net shows where total dollars moved, while Median shows what happened to the typical player in that band. Below 75 RC/600, both tell the same story: prices went down. The 75-90 band is noisy: the typical player still got cheaper, but enough players rose to make the band net positive. At 90+ RC/600, the class clearly got more expensive.

Pitching Role Slices

Pitching is the opposite shape from hitters. The typical SP, RP, and CL still moved down a little, but total dollars moved up because the risers were larger than the cuts. That is why starters can show +$91.42M overall while more starters went down than up. The jump was concentrated in 80 starters who rose by at least $1.5M, led by Tom Seaver, Babe Adams, Wilbur Cooper, Kid Nichols, Kevin Brown, Tex Hughson, Yutaka Enatsu, Dizzy Dean, and Robin Roberts.

Biggest Hitter Movers

Largest Increases

Largest Drops

High-RC Watch List

These are not automatic buys. Defense, durability, platoon shape, and park fit still matter. But if you care about raw offensive pressure, these are the repriced players worth checking first.

90+ RC/600 Bats That Got Cheaper

Cheapest 100+ RC/600 Bats After The Update

90+ RC/600 Bats That Got More Expensive

Biggest Pitcher Movers

Largest Increases

Largest Drops

How To Use This

For draft rooms, the useful edge is not “buy every drop.” It is knowing where the market got re-centered. The first pass should be: find newly discounted 90+ RC/600 bats, re-check premium CF/LF/RF prices, and do not assume old starter pricing still holds. The starter pool picked up money even though the median SP still dropped, which means the move was concentrated in selected arms rather than evenly spread.

For in-season transactions, the most interesting bucket is quality that got cheaper but stayed playable: Mays, Delahanty, DiMaggio, Buck Leonard, Hamilton, Boggs, Larry Walker, and other high-RC discounts are now easier to fit into cash worksheets. On the pitching side, Pedro, Maddux, Santana, Mussina, Blyleven, and several mid-tier starters came down, while the big starter increases clustered around Seaver, Babe Adams, Wilbur Cooper, Kid Nichols, Kevin Brown, Tex Hughson, Yutaka Enatsu, Dizzy Dean, and Robin Roberts.

Method Notes

This compares the March 20, 2026 salary snapshot with the April 28, 2026 salary snapshot. True two-way player cards are collapsed when their hitter and pitcher views share the same name, salary, and positions. Same-name different players are separated. All 5,574 distinct player cards matched across snapshots, so there were no additions or removals in this update.

The hitter and pitcher sections are still shown separately because DMB exports those views separately, and that is where the internal repricing movement is easiest to see.