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Originally Posted by nfotiu
I’ve yet to hear anyone explain the problem with how it’s treated. It’s a 47 million dollar per year contract and that’s how it’s treated by the CBA. I don’t see it as being any concern for cap circumvention. It may be more controversial if it get evade California taxes. It’s just wrong to call it a 700 million contract when it isn’t really.
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Yeah. The Dodgers pay him $2MM in cash and deposit $44MM in a bank account for him to have later. While I agree the tax angle is a bit dodgy that seems more like a problem for the California government to deal with not for MLB.