The Dodgers obtained Tigers ace Tarik Skubal before the trade deadline trying to enhance their chances of three-peating as World Series champions. And the Tigers trading two-time American League Cy Young Award winner Tarik Skubal to the Dodgers just a few day before the trade deadline does nothing to change that stark fact. But baseball owners then began approving the sale of teams like the Dodgers and Mets to hedge fund owners with deep pockets and that changed the equation. The Dodgers weren’t actually bankrupt at the time, but then owner Frank McCourt used the process to keep MLB from seizing the team. The luxury tax was collectively bargained with a tax utilized to constrain owners from overspending the annual threshold.