They held on to their top 4 prospects and lose no one off the roster, and still get Skubal. Cubs former farm hand is the centerpiece of the package Detroit gets back. Rich get richer.
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ChiefGritty
- Chicago, IL
I am increasingly convinced the Dodgers unlimited payroll is an owner's conspiracy to win public support for a salary cap.
Salary cap baseball would be meaningless dreck. "Content" in the worst sense of the word.
mattcoldagelli
- Script Illinois Enthusiast
It’s not like LA is simply firehosing people with money like the Yankees and Red Sox of ~20 years ago. They’re just taking advantage of the fact that seemingly every other front office in the league is playing scared.
A raised salary floor with no salary cap is my hope.
My hope is the Dodgers get thrown out of MLB.
If the owners are glued to that, there won't be baseball in 2027. I do agree that there has to be a way to limit or close the gap(by a lot).
The problem is that the players union won't go along with it whatsoever. 0% chance. Now, we're looking at players giving in and crossing a picket line(NFL in the late 80's).
The players not making millions about millions will eventually give in, but at that point, will they have lost the fans? If there's one thing that COVID did teach us is that people will find other things to do. If they erase an entire summer, there's a lot of options out there.
It'll be interesting.
It would improve things quite a bit. On the list I looked at 17 teams are at $150M or more. The 13 teams below that mark are a combined $560M under that. That’s a fair amount of stars/very good players that wouldn’t be on the Dodgers and other teams with high payrolls. But no way owners would agree to a floor without a cap.
All the deferred money is an issue too. Some kind of formula to curtail that vehicle for getting around a cap would be good too.