Well.. it just dawned on me how messed up salaries are in historical play with BM 2018.
Paying Al Hrabosky $9.9M and others money like this is way off. I play two baseball games, this and OOTP so this issue never hit me until this morning. Since I play current MLB with OOTP, paying him that salary seemed normal.
Someone already posted this bug in the forums over there, so I'll have to wait on a fix and my guess is I'll have to start over.