Now THAT'S a Hot Stove transaction. After missing out on Stanton and Otani, i was wondering if the Dodgers were gonna by to be able to pull anything off with their payroll concerns. I should have known better with this front office. All of their payroll dead weight gone in one trade: Gonzalez, Kazmir, McCarthy (along with Charlie Culbertson), taking back only Matt Kemp. No players that would have been regulars. Dodgers now are so far under the Luxury Tax threshold for 2018 they can go after a free agent. But more importantly they've reset the tax so that if (when???) they go back over the threshold buying free agents next year, they'll be back to the 20% penalty. So it's definitely a move for next year and down the road but at the same time they haven't done anything to harm their chances for this coming year.