News: The Dodgers bring back their top three free agents — Kenley Jansen, Justin Turner and Rich Hill — at a combined commitment of $192 million.
Reaction: What about those supposedly stiff luxury-tax penalties in the new collective bargaining agreement?
They don’t fully kick in until the 2018 season, so the Dodgers are taking advantage of a one-year window in which they can run the same $250-million payroll as they did this year and pay only another $3 million in taxes.
For 2017, the luxury tax will not be assessed at the rates announced in the outline of the new collective bargaining agreement.