To pay the luxury tax, or not to pay the luxury tax — that has been the question all winter for the Dodgers. Los Angeles mostly sat out one of the craziest free agency periods in recent memory, watching from the sidelines as the rest of the league spent about $3 billion on free agents. LA added just three big-league free agents this winter: Shelby Miller, Noah Syndergaard, and JD Martinez.
Still, when Trevor Bauer’s suspension was reduced from the longest in the history of the league’s sexual assault policy to still the longest but slightly less long, that put the Dodgers on the hook for about $22.