01-25-2025, 03:38 PM
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#5641
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Franchise Player
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Originally Posted by browna
They are, and wouldn't doubt that if the Jays could defer massive amounts,like Ohtani did, maybe they would.
By no means a tax lawyer or expert, but my guess is the CRA has a vastly different set of rules than the IRS on those sorts of complications. Ohtani probably spent a lot of money on tax lawyers to make sure it would all go around, set up the various corporate shells etc for the maximized tax savings, and the familiarity with those same tax lawyers for knowledge of the CRA rules is probably different or non-existent.
A ton of opt outs for Alonso sounds good on paper for both sides, but probably a lot of teams offer that. Why would would be pick Toronto to do that exercise, outside of course $ offered?
He doesn't want to leave the Mets and wants eventually a price of the pie that Soto got.
But if he's that upset, I can see him spite the Mets by going to the Yankees as a trade for the Soto swap, on one of those multiple opt out deal the Jays are offering.
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The Yankees don't really have a spot for Alonso this year with Goldschmidt at 1B and Stanton at DH.
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