{"id":473894,"date":"2023-12-23T17:30:28","date_gmt":"2023-12-23T21:30:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=473894"},"modified":"2023-12-23T17:30:28","modified_gmt":"2023-12-23T21:30:28","slug":"mets-must-pay-101-million-dollars-luxury-tax-after-4th-place-finish","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/mets-must-pay-101-million-dollars-luxury-tax-after-4th-place-finish\/","title":{"rendered":"Mets must pay 101 million dollars luxury tax after 4th place finish"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The NY Mets are punished with a record luxury tax of almost 101 million dollars after a 4th-place end in their division, among an unprecedented 8 franchises that owe the penalty for the 2023 campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Owner Steve Cohen&#8217;s team ended with a tax payroll of almost 375 million, according to figures finalized by MLB. That is a record, as the previous record was held by the 2015 LA Dodgers, who paid over 291 million dollars.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">The Mets owe $101,000,000 in luxury tax penalties, and that money will be disbursed to small-market teams<\/p>\n<p>Also, those small-market teams who cry poor will essentially start the season profitable due to TV money<\/p>\n<p>The Pirates\/Orioles\/Rays\/Guardians\/A\u2019s are running out of excuses <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Zq7LLHf3tL\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/Zq7LLHf3tL<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Fuzzy (@fuzzyfromyt) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/fuzzyfromyt\/status\/1738636905036775913?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">December 23, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The MLB organization from the Big Apple tax bill came to 101 million after they finished 4<sup>th<\/sup> in the NL East at 75-87 in the most expensive flop in the league\u2019s history. That is 2 times higher than the almost 44 million dollars by the Dodgers 8 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>New York saved about 18 million dollars for this campaign with their summer selloff that saw them trade Scherzer, Verlander, Robertson, and Canha.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The NY Mets are punished with a record luxury tax of almost 101 million dollars after a 4th-place end in their division, among [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":473895,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17863,17653],"news_category":[16708],"gn_keywords":[18542,12402],"acf":{"announce":"The MLB franchise from New York hit a record with the luxury tax.","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/473894"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=473894"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/473894\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":473898,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/473894\/revisions\/473898"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/473895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=473894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=473894"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=473894"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=473894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}