The Los Angeles Dodgers' record-setting payroll in 2015 has also led to the franchise setting a new Major League Baseball record in luxury-tax penalties.
According to Bob Nightengale of USA Today, after spending $298.3 million on talent last year, the Dodgers will be paying $43.7 million in competitive balance tax.
The Dodgers — who paid about $50 million to players who never appeared for them in 2015 — are one of four teams this season to be subjected to Major League Baseball's "Competitive Balance Tax," which started in 2011 and applies to teams that surpass a certain payroll threshold.