The Yankees have to make a payment to Major League Baseball of $34,053,787. The Red Sox must pay $4,156,476. These are luxury, or competitive-balance, tax bills, the amounts that the Yankees and the Red Sox have to pay for exceeding the payroll threshold of $128 million. The Yankees had a payroll of $213,134,467, the Red Sox $141,854,919. No one else has to pay the luxury tax, the Mets' payroll being the closest to the threshold at $119,237,389.
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