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Originally Posted by nfotiu
You're not making sense. Any small market team would love to be able to get a free agent for 2/3s their value. Most players just aren't going to take that though. If he got 70/year straight up, then that is a whole lot harder for small teams to compete with.
The only problematic part for other teams (and maybe the union) is he took a pretty big pay cut to go to the Dodgers. And then there is the whole tax evasion question.
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Any small market team can't afford the deferrals. Thinking the Rays or A's can pay him $68 million a year for 10 years to not play is insane. This level of deferral is only something the richest teams can afford. And seeing as this reduces the Dodgers luxury tax hit those same small market teams get less money in the end. If this were a small portion of the contract being deferred, that'd be one thing, but it's literally 97% being deferred. Good for the Dodgers exploiting the rules, but like most things where exploiting the rules are possible it's mostly the richest that can do it.