During spring training in 2012, Jared Hughes, then a rookie right-handed relief pitcher for the Pirates, piled paperwork on the table, opened TurboTax on his computer and began preparing his tax return, his first since making major-league money for the first time the previous year.
Each time the tax-prep program asked if he had another state to file, Mr. Hughes sighed and clicked “yes.” Pennsylvania, Indiana, Illinois, Ohio, California, Arizona, Wisconsin — on and on he went.
“It was probably a solid week of logging on to TurboTax every night to try figuring it out,” he said Saturday by phone.