Another discrepancy that talk on another thread about signing another overseas player reminded me. As far as I can tell, none of these payroll trackers take into account posting fees paid.
For example, the Cardinals had to pay $1.6 MM posting fee to Kim’s former club. This is on top of Kim’s salary. The Cardinals had to pay the money from somewhere and if I was running the team’s accounting, I would apply it to their player payroll budget. But it doesn’t seem to exist in anyone’s calculations.