President of baseball operations Dave Dombrowski will have one of the larger budgets in the sport as he attempts to build a playoff-caliber team, but there does appear to be a limit on how much he can spend in constructing the Philadelphia Phillies roster.
Matt Gelb of The Athletic wrote Sunday that while Dombrowski will have more room to spend than he did last season, he doesn’t currently have permission to exceed the luxury tax threshold:
Dombrowski would not elaborate on his revised budget, but sources indicated ownership had authorized Dombrowski to spend as he saw fit — so long as he did not exceed a $230 million budget.