This gives the Giants about $30 million to work with before heading into the tax, where they’ve been for the past two seasons now. If they surpass it again this year, they will be taxed at 40 percent of each dollar past the threshold.
However, from a financial perspective, this is absolutely the year to get under the soft cap, as the team will likely want to at least contend for some of the marquee names in 2018’s offseason (Bryce Harper and Manny Machado headline the group).
Thirty million is nothing to scoff at, but the team has many talent and depth holes to fill this year, namely at third base and in the outfield.