Tag: dodgers
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Baseball’s Luxury Tax
In a recent headline that clearly highlighted the difference between the haves and the have nots was the news of the nine teams that paid a whopping $311 million in luxury tax. That tax also known as the Competitive Balance Tax assesses teams a “tax” when they go over the set thresholds set by the…
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How Not to Start a Season
Only in the world of Major League Baseball, can you start a season, take a break and then start it again almost ten days later. Here is the timeline of the start of this year’s season: It is funny how MLB markets March 28th, since they call it Opening Day, even though the first regular…
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Rich vs Poor
The Los Angeles Dodgers have made the biggest splash this off-season of all the major league clubs by signing Shohei Ohtani and Yoshinobu Yamamoto. Combined, the Dodgers shelled out over $1 billion to obtain Ohtani ($700 million over 10 years) and Yamamoto ($325 million over 12 years). Ohtani’s contract is the largest in sport’s history…
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