{"id":359258,"date":"2025-12-19T23:20:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T23:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/359258\/"},"modified":"2025-12-19T23:20:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T23:20:08","slug":"dodgers-hit-with-record-169m-luxury-tax-after-2nd-straight-ws-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/359258\/","title":{"rendered":"Dodgers hit with record $169M luxury tax after 2nd straight WS title"},"content":{"rendered":"

NEW YORK — The Los Angeles Dodgers<\/a> will pay a record $169.4 million luxury tax after winning their second straight World Series title<\/a>, raising their two-year total to $272.4 million.<\/p>\n

The New York Mets<\/a> have the second-highest tax bill among the nine teams that pay at $91.6 million despite missing the 12-team playoffs, raising their tax owed to $320.3 million in the last four years under high-spending owner Steve Cohen.<\/p>\n

The Dodgers will pay tax for the fifth straight season. The Dodgers’ total broke the previous high of $103 million they had set last year.<\/p>\n

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Los Angeles’ $417.3 million tax payroll included $949,244 in noncash compensation for Shohei Ohtani<\/a>, whose contract calls for use of a suite for games at Dodger Stadium and an interpreter.<\/p>\n

The Mets’ total payroll of $346.7 million included $369,886 in noncash compensation for Juan Soto<\/a>, whose contract specified the team will pay for his use of a luxury suite, up to four premium tickets and personal team security for the All-Star outfielder and his family.<\/p>\n

The Yankees owe $61.8 million, according to figures finalized Friday by Major League Baseball and the players’ association and obtained by The Associated Press. They were followed by Philadelphia ($56.1 million), AL champion Toronto ($13.6 million), San Diego (just under $7 million), Boston and Houston (both $1.5 million), and Texas (about $190,000).<\/p>\n

The nine teams paying match the record nine set year. The $402.6 million tax total topped the previous high of $311.3 million last year. Tax money is due to MLB by Jan. 21.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK — The Los Angeles Dodgers will pay a record $169.4 million luxury tax after winning their…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":359259,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,591,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-359258","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=359258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359258\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/359259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}