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Tuesday 19 december 2017
Dodgers cut projected tax payroll next year to $181 million

By RONALD BLUM for 2018 additions, such as ter position going into next
AP Baseball Writer a deal for free-agent re- year’s offseason, when
NEW YORK (AP) — The Los liever Tom Koehler and in- Bryce Harper and Manny
Angeles Dodgers brought season acquisitions. Machado could be free
their projected 2018 pay- The Dodgers’ 2017 luxury agents.
roll under the $197 million tax payroll was about $250 On a cash basis, the trade
luxury tax threshold with the million with a projected tax was neutral.
weekend trade that sent of about $34 million, ac- Atlanta acquired $47.5 mil-
first baseman Adrian Gon- cording to Aug. 31 figures lion of 2018 salaries: Gon-
zalez, oft-injured starting compiled by the commis- zalez gets $21.5 million,
pitchers Scott Kazmir and sioner’s office. Final cal- Kazmir earns $16 million (of
Brandon McCarthy and in- culations are likely to be which $8 million is deferred
fielder Charlie Culberson to made this week. to Dec. 15, 2021) and Mc-
the Atlanta Braves for out- Los Angeles will pay tax for Carthy gets $10 million. The
fielder Matt Kemp. the fifth straight year; be- Braves immediately desig-
Los Angeles will send At- In this June 24, 2017, file photo, Atlanta Braves’ Matt Kemp waves cause of that, its tax rate nated Gonzalez for assign-
lanta $4.5 million by May to a fan after the team’s baseball game against the Milwaukee next year will be 50 per- ment and intend to release
1 as part of the trade an- Brewers in Atlanta. cent of the amount above him.
nounced Saturday, cut- Associated Press $197 million plus a 12 per- The New York Yankees,
ting its 2018 payroll for tax acquired Kemp, a $20 mil- $14,044,600 for benefits; cent surtax on the portion who have paid a luxury
purposes by $25 million to lion charge, along with the and $8 million for the two above $217 million through tax in each year since it
about $181 million while in- $4.5 million cash transac- cash transactions involving $237 million and a 50 per- began in 2003, also are in-
creasing its 2019 payroll by tion. Kemp, including a $3.5 mil- cent surtax on the amount tent on getting below next
$20 million. That leaves Los Angeles lion charge for the Decem- over that. year’s threshold. After New
The Dodgers rid them- with a projected luxury ber 2014 trade that sent If Los Angeles’ payroll fin- York and left-hander CC
selves of three guaran- tax payroll that includes him to San Diego. Los An- ishes below $197 million in Sabathia agreed Saturday
teed salaries from next $122,969,286 for 10 signed geles must pay the Padres 2018, the Dodgers’ base to a $10 million, one-year
year’s tax payroll that to- players; an estimated $26 $600,000 on the first of each tax rate would reset to 20 contract that is subject to
taled $49,554,483: Gonza- million for eight players eli- month from April through percent on the first $20 mil- a successful physical, the
lez at $22 million, Kazmir at gible for salary arbitration; August and $500,000 on lion above the 2019 thresh- Yankees’ projected 2018
$15,554,483 and McCarthy an estimated $10 million for Sept. 1. old of $206 million. That payroll for tax purposes is at
at $12 million. Los Angeles the rest of its 40-man roster; Los Angeles still has room would put them in a bet- about $177 million.q