Question: Dan Lozano is a professional sports agent whose clients include a Canadian first baseman who plays for what Major League Baseball team?

<P0-S0> Dan Lozano (born March 3, 1967) is a professional sports agent, specializing in baseball. <P0-S1>  He is the founder of MVP Sports Group, a sports agency based in Los Angeles, CA. <P0-S2>  His current clients include many notable MLB players such as Albert Pujols, Joey Votto, Alex Rodriguez, Jimmy Rollins, Carlos Beltrán, Nick Swisher, Michael Young, Brian Wilson and Mike Piazza. <P0-S3>  He has worked professionally as an agent for over 23 years, and has negotiated numerous deals including some of the largest deals in baseball history such as Mike Piazza’s 7-year $91 million deal with the New York Mets, Albert Pujols’ $240 million deal with the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim and Joey Votto’s $225 million extension with the Cincinnati Reds. <SEP> <P1-S0> Joseph Daniel Votto (born September 10, 1983) is a Canadian professional baseball first baseman for the Cincinnati Reds of Major League Baseball (MLB). <P1-S1>  He made his MLB debut with the Reds in 2007. <SEP> <P2-S0> Major League Baseball has a luxury tax, called the “competitive balance tax”, in place of a salary cap in order to level the spending an individual team can spend on their roster. <P2-S1>  If a league lacks a salary cap or a luxury tax, any rich team can spend all the money they can afford on players. <P2-S2>  This means teams with smaller pockets cannot keep up with the richer teams, as they cannot afford the top talent, giving them a competitive disadvantage against the rich teams.This disadvantage calls for some sort of limitation on spending to make it a lot harder for the richer, bigger market teams, in order to spread the competitiveness across the league. <P2-S3>  In other professional sports leagues, there is usually a salary cap on what each team can spend on their players and they cannot go over that level. <P2-S4>  Major League Baseball decided to install a luxury tax instead to keep the competitive balance in the league. <P2-S5>  This means that at the beginning of each year, a threshold is set by the Commissioner's Office of Major League Baseball to how much a team can spend on their players. <P2-S6>  In Major League Baseball, their “competitive balance tax” allows teams to go over the threshold, but at a premium. <P2-S7>  The goal of this is to encourage big spending, but to still maintain a great balance in competition. <P2-S8>  Major League Baseball implemented the “competitive balance tax” in 1997, and it has undergone several changes since the beginning. <SEP> <P3-S0> Simon Emilio Pond (born October 27, 1976) is a former Canadian first baseman, third baseman, and outfielder in Major League Baseball. <P3-S1>  Born in North Vancouver, British Columbia, he was originally selected by the Montreal Expos in the 8th round of the 1994 amateur draft (224th overall), and played in the Expos' farm system until 2000, when he was traded to the Cleveland Indians. <P3-S2>  He made his major league debut with the Toronto Blue Jays in 2004, and was a member of Team Canada at the 2004 Summer Olympics, where they finished in fourth place in the baseball tournament.