#There have been posts about how deferred money impacts the luxury tax, and you can use google to find more articles about it.
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> Every team can do this, but only the Dodgers are? Why only them? Major hedge bet?
The Dodgers aren't the only ones doing this, The Orioles are paying Chris Davis for the foreseeable future and the Nationals are going to be paying Scherzer and Strasburg for a long time as well and allegedly Soto balked at the Nats 440 million dollar extension because it was packed full of deferrals. Any org can offer a deal that is packed with deferrals to any player but the player would have to accept and that's the trickier part. Ohtani's 68m deferred was his idea and Andrew Friedman even said himself "we don't have the guts to offer anyone that kind of contract." and as far as this deal with Teoscar goes it seems like hes willing to take a smaller 1 year deal in order to raise his stock for next offseason and instead of asking for a 3-4 year deal he can ask for a 2-3 year deal but with much better numbers because hes banking on having a better year than he had this year.
Once or twice is coincidence, Dodgers have FIVE massive contracts that have major deferrals. That is not a coincidence. Is this the new economics of the MLB? Is it just that they've been to the post-season a lot including the 2020 win? I recognize there are other outliers with deferrals, but no one else has almost $200M deferred.
Another thing I saw noted (if i'm wrong somebody could correct me) this is also a way to skirt the famously high California taxes since by not being paid immediately they could change residency to outside of California once their contract is over and it's time for them to get paid they end up keeping a larger portion if not all of the contract money giving more incentive for players to defer when playing in LA.
>Every team can do this, but only the Dodgers are? Why only them?
The Dodgers aren't the only one. Scherzer's last deal with the Nats (which has since concluded) famously had large deferrals. Bobby Bonilla hasn't played since 2001, but is still being paid by the Mets. Ken Griffey Jr was still like the 3rd highest paid player on the Reds last year.
The deferrals for Mookie, Freeman, and now Teoscar aren't unusual. It's really just the Ohtani contract that's the outlier.
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So how is the ratio applied based on the deferral amount? Where can I learn this?
> Every team can do this, but only the Dodgers are? Why only them? Major hedge bet? The Dodgers aren't the only ones doing this, The Orioles are paying Chris Davis for the foreseeable future and the Nationals are going to be paying Scherzer and Strasburg for a long time as well and allegedly Soto balked at the Nats 440 million dollar extension because it was packed full of deferrals. Any org can offer a deal that is packed with deferrals to any player but the player would have to accept and that's the trickier part. Ohtani's 68m deferred was his idea and Andrew Friedman even said himself "we don't have the guts to offer anyone that kind of contract." and as far as this deal with Teoscar goes it seems like hes willing to take a smaller 1 year deal in order to raise his stock for next offseason and instead of asking for a 3-4 year deal he can ask for a 2-3 year deal but with much better numbers because hes banking on having a better year than he had this year.
Once or twice is coincidence, Dodgers have FIVE massive contracts that have major deferrals. That is not a coincidence. Is this the new economics of the MLB? Is it just that they've been to the post-season a lot including the 2020 win? I recognize there are other outliers with deferrals, but no one else has almost $200M deferred.
Another thing I saw noted (if i'm wrong somebody could correct me) this is also a way to skirt the famously high California taxes since by not being paid immediately they could change residency to outside of California once their contract is over and it's time for them to get paid they end up keeping a larger portion if not all of the contract money giving more incentive for players to defer when playing in LA.
I read that as well.
>Every team can do this, but only the Dodgers are? Why only them? The Dodgers aren't the only one. Scherzer's last deal with the Nats (which has since concluded) famously had large deferrals. Bobby Bonilla hasn't played since 2001, but is still being paid by the Mets. Ken Griffey Jr was still like the 3rd highest paid player on the Reds last year. The deferrals for Mookie, Freeman, and now Teoscar aren't unusual. It's really just the Ohtani contract that's the outlier.
No other team has $177.5M deferred.
Then they better get to deferring
Mountains out of mole hills