[Rogers] At the top, the Dodgers CBT payment is $103,016,896. The Mets weren’t far behind, paying $97,115,609 while the Cubs are paying the least: $570, 309.

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  2. It’s good there’s at least not a salary cap but penalizing teams for spending is so counterproductive. It should be encouraged so as many players as possible can be paid what they are truly worth. Stop suppressing player wages.

  3. Luxury tax payment higher than 6 teams entire payrolls and less than a million bucks behind a 7th. Obviously, those teams are underspending but to all the “it’s effectively a salary cap” people…

  12. My daily opportunity to tell Ricketts and his bullshit family to disrespectfully go fuck themselves. God I hate that family, even if it doesn’t have anything to do with this post.

  13. The Dodgers competitive balance tax would be the 22nd highest payroll last season. Nothing wrong with this system at all.

    Edit: And that doesn’t account for the deferred contracts of Ohtani, Betts, Freeman, or Will Smith. From a “competitive” standpoint it should be drastically larger. Deferred contract loophole needs to be fixed. If you want to hoodwink a player out of tens of millions of dollars by deferring the salary, you can save the cash, but the full value should count against the CBT, not the today’s value of the deferred money. The game is already stacked enough in favor of big market teams who can afford to make horrible signings or stack rosters.

  14. Dodgers are paying more CBT in a year than all the money spent on fetish CBT in human history

  15. thank you guy who signed vinny nittoli (who never played in a game) for losing a draft pick for us

  16. Does anybody know how much not resetting the CBT hurt the Dodgers? Didn’t they go just barely over for like Miggy Rojas a couple years ago.

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