Gregor Chisholm: The Blue Jays are ready to spend, Mark Shapiro says
have to spend this off-season remains a mystery but president Mark Shapiro insists his team will not be hard-capped by the competitive balance tax.
For the first time since joining the Jays in 2015, Shapiro openly talked about ownership group Rogers Communications’ willingness to become a taxpaying team. He stopped short of guaranteeing it would happen, but the fact it was mentioned at all marks a big change from earlier this spring when the 55-year-old said the competitive balance tax was not in his “windshield.”
Each team’s CBT is determined by using the average annual salary of each player’s contract on the 40-man roster, plus player benefits, which are estimated to be $16.5 million next season. Other amounts, such as a $1.67-million payment into the league’s pre-arbitration bonus pool, get added in as well.
“But the support and the growth of that payroll is unprecedented in the history of the franchise and continues to be very strong from ownership. That being said, the nature of a maturing core that’s very talented and very strong means that more and more of the payroll goes to that core of players, which is fitting because they’re good, really good.”
While Shapiro said the tax wouldn’t limit the Jays’ plans, he also didn’t definitively say they planned on exceeding it either. This is a team that likes to keep its payroll under wraps and, while previous statements exposed the tax threshold as their upper spending limit, the latest comments spark mystery.
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