{"id":102503,"date":"2025-12-20T10:50:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T10:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/102503\/"},"modified":"2025-12-20T10:50:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T10:50:09","slug":"los-angeles-dodgers-to-pay-record-169-4-million-luxury-tax-after-winning-2nd-straight-world-series-baltimore-sun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/102503\/","title":{"rendered":"Los Angeles Dodgers to pay record $169.4 million luxury tax after winning 2nd straight World Series \u2013 Baltimore Sun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK \u2014 The Los Angeles Dodgers will pay a record $169.4 million luxury tax after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/2025\/11\/03\/greatest-world-series-debate\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">winning their second straight World Series title<\/a>, raising their two-year total to $272.4 million.<\/p>\n<p>The New York Mets 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<p>The Dodgers will pay tax for the fifth straight season. The Dodgers\u2019 total broke the previous high of $103 million they had set last year.<\/p>\n<p>Their $417.3 million tax payroll included $949,244 in noncash compensation for Shohei Ohtani, whose contract calls for use of a suite for games at Dodger Stadium and an interpreter.<\/p>\n<p>The Mets\u2019 total payroll of $346.7 million included $369,886 in noncash compensation for Juan Soto, 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<p>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 the Philadelphia Phillies ($56.1 million), AL champion Toronto Blue Jays ($13.6 million), San Diego Padres (just under $7 million), Boston Red Sox and Houston Astros (both $1.5 million) and Texas Rangers (about $190,000).<\/p>\n<p>The nine teams paying match the record set last 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 \u2014 The Los Angeles Dodgers will pay a record $169.4 million luxury tax after winning their&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":102504,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[48,52,51,47,50,49,1334,127],"class_list":{"0":"post-102503","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-la","9":"tag-la-headlines","10":"tag-la-news","11":"tag-los-angeles","12":"tag-los-angeles-headlines","13":"tag-los-angeles-news","14":"tag-mlb","15":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102503\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}