When Trevor Bauer was reinstated by an independent arbitrator last month, it put the Dodgers on the hook for $22.5 million of his 2023 salary and put L.A. right up against the payroll threshold for the luxury tax. Everything are just estimates at this point — arbitration salaries haven’t been determined yet, nor have contract incentives — but it looks like it’s going to be very tight.
Or, at least, it was going to be very tight. Los Angeles traded for Miguel Rojas on Wednesday, which makes the financial outlook a little bit different.