According to the website taxaball.com, Clayton Kershaw leads all of baseball in a category we didn’t know existed until today: Spring training tax savings.
Writes Jonathan Nehring:
Had Arizona decided to adopt the traditional duty day calculation that most states have adopted they would be collecting 4.54% of every MLB player’s salary during spring training while teams training in Florida would have been playing tax free. Fearful that players and teams would move their spring training locations to Florida (or another state that doesn’t charge income tax e.g. Texas), Arizona valued the economic impact that spring training brings them over the economic impact taxing MLB player’s salaries would bring Arizona.
To the right is a list of the MLB players who will save the most money by Arizona not taxing income earned in Spring Training.