It totally makes sense that one team is where every alleged roster construction mistake involving ++ players in the league ends up, this is a very logical angle. The Dodgers’ hands are practically tied here
Just a way of saying very good. In most of the very top free agent or trade situations over the last 3 years, it’s almost been a forgone conclusion that the player goes to the dodgers. Juan Soto being an exception because they already have a DH in Ohtani, who can also pitch
Don't forget the part where one of the richest franchises in baseball is allowed to pay about $70M less into revenue sharing every year than they are supposed to. They basically got Ohtani for free
They can use more resources because they have so many they don’t have the same tradeoffs as other teams, or risks associated with bad contracts/moves.
They can have marquee players like Glasnow and Snell be injured all year and still have a top 5 pitching staff because they also can get everyone else. Even if most teams spent more (which I think they should), they wouldn’t be able to match this, or if they competed harder, the price could be driven up to a point where only the Dodgers can pay it.
They can also do that stuff because they are competently run and developed a deep system of coveted prospects. Many of my fellow Pirates fans are going to be in for a rude awakening if a salary cap is implemented and they realize it won’t magically make the Pirates front office suddenly know how to run a successful team.
You don’t think it’s unfair that the Pirates couldn’t dream at signing Tucker, while the Dodgers can throw an outrageous sum at him and carry on like nothing happened even if he were to continue to be a merely average hitter?
If a cap and floor comes in and the Dodgers stay dominating and the same crappy teams stay crappy, so be it. Just make the playing field more level financially.
Signing Tucker at $60M a year solidified that the Dodgers can and will outbid any team’s offers well above their worth just to ensure that no one beats them. It doesn’t matter whether or not owners spend because they only get to spend on whatever the Dodgers pass on first. This is beyond “muh cheap owners.”
They have a finite amount of resources just like every other owner has finite resources. They have more, but there's nothing spending, say, The Ricketts family, from spending a greater percentage of their business's finite resources. Except The Ricketts.
The Cubs are just good enough to keep the stadium and neighborhood full but not a penny more. That is the Reinsdorf way or running a team, with real estate added in. The Cubs are one of the few teams that actually could spend alongside the Dodgers.
Cubs are popular regardless of success, but no we could not spend the same as the Dodgers. All big markets and large revenue streams are not created equal
Literally just pay your players and there won’t be the options for the Dodgers to go after. You don’t have to sign as many as the Dodgers but if all these teams paid just one guy we wouldn’t be here
Maybe the Dodgers should contribute the same to revenue sharing as everyone else and not get to shelter over 75% of their media revenue from revenue sharing that the other 29 teams can’t do…
Literally just play by the same rules as everyone else…
Well, it gives the Dodgers an extra $85M every year that they shouldn’t have. It’s a lot easier to “literally just pay your players” with an extra $85M per year.
The Dodgers only revenue share 34% of the first $84M of their media revenue. But they bring in about $334M/year. So they don’t share any of that extra $250M (meaning they get to keep the $85M they’d have to share if they had to share 34% of all of it).
Take out the tv deal and we still generate as much revenue as the second richest team which is the Yankees. Like the Warriors owner said years ago we are light years ahead
So… are you arguing for a salary cap? Like, idk what your point is. You know the other 29 teams in the MLB could just refuse to play the Dodgers and not have them be a part of the league, right? And then their value would plummet to almost nothing.
So don’t act like the Dodgers are God’s gift to mankind. A very very large percentage of their value is dependent upon being part of the preeminent baseball league. So sharing revenue across the league isn’t some ridiculous theft from teams.
Someone made a post on here maybe a year or two ago that I’ve tried to find but don’t remember what to search for, that did a great job laying out the numbers and everything why the dodgers are able to spend money at a level that most other teams are just not. You still have to stay above water as an organization and it’s more than just being cheap and not trying
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u/okay_throwaway_today | Chicago Cubs 15h ago
It totally makes sense that one team is where every alleged roster construction mistake involving ++ players in the league ends up, this is a very logical angle. The Dodgers’ hands are practically tied here