Moving money around for the sake of the team is a skill that apparently doesn’t stop with MLB franchises.
The Los Angeles Dodgers have utilized deferred money to still give players their promised money in the contract, but doing it in a way where an amount will be received in the future so that the team can have more fiscal flexibility in the present day.
Shohei Ohtani, Mookie Betts, Freddie Freeman, Tommy Edman, Will Smith, and the newly signed Blake Snell all have at least $20 million of deferred money in their respective contracts.
About 30 miles south of Dodger Stadium, the Anaheim Ducks of the National Hockey League seem to have taken note on these economically savvy contracts.