2024-25 Misc Offseason News

[markedman5]

Shocked…….i tell you I’m shocked! 
 

 

[TURBO]

What a complete freaking joke.

[nate82]

5 minutes ago, markedman5 said:

Shocked…….i tell you I’m shocked! 
 

 

People were expecting it to not be the Dodgers?  Why? 

[TURBO]

4 minutes ago, nate82 said:

People were expecting it to not be the Dodgers?  Why? 

Pretty sure he was being sarcastic.  Everyone knew where he was going.  The rich continue to get richer in MLB.

[duewizard]

I had the slightest bit of hope you know? It will never ever happen but man I wish there was a hard salary floor and cap

[markedman5]

12 minutes ago, TURBO said:

Pretty sure he was being sarcastic.  Everyone knew where he was going.  The rich continue to get richer in MLB.

 

[CheeseheadInQC]

Yah, the whole thing was a farce to make this look not preordained.

[jw5511986]

Not gonna lie, between Ueck and this news, I think I'm good on baseball for a long while.

[MoreTrife]

This is a f**** joke. How are 3/4 of the other owners okay with this? Or it's the players union? I don't understand how anyone is okay with one team having this unfair of an advantage.

[Frisbee Slider]

Not that this provides much comfort but if given the choice between the Dodgers or ‘the field’ I would take the field in terms of most likely World Series champion in 2025.

[RightFieldCoder]

1 hour ago, MoreTrife said:

This is a f**** joke. How are 3/4 of the other owners okay with this? Or it's the players union? I don't understand how anyone is okay with one team having this unfair of an advantage.

Because the other owners are making money hand over fist. They can now not spend money on players because it "won't matter since LA is going to win anyway". These kind of things were stopped in other leagues (especially NHL) because some owners were actually losing money. 

[TURBO]

14 hours ago, Frisbee Slider said:

Not that this provides much comfort but if given the choice between the Dodgers or ‘the field’ I would take the field in terms of most likely World Series champion in 2025.

Nah, I'd take the Dodgers for the repeat.

The team they have built for 2025 is even better than 2024, in which they won it all.

It's just a gross stain on the game, and all we can do is pout about it.

[duewizard]

4 hours ago, TURBO said:

Nah, I'd take the Dodgers for the repeat.

The team they have built for 2025 is even better than 2024, in which they won it all.

It's just a gross stain on the game, and all we can do is pout about it.

And Shohei might be able to pitch now

[Gump]

I may be the only one that thinks this……but the MLB needs a salary cap..

[TURBO]

Unbelievable, I mean, this is now getting cartoonish...  Baseball is broken.

 

The Dodgers are signing Tanner Scott to a four-year, $72 million deal, according to ESPN’s Jeff Passan.

Well, that’s one way to make sure he won’t be striking out Shohei Ohtani in October. Scott, 30, has been one of baseball’s best relievers the last two years, posting a 2.04 ERA in 150 innings. This probably settles the closer question in L.A.; though Scott doesn’t necessarily need to be in that role, the paycheck demands that he get the first try over Michael Kopech and Evan Phillips.

 

Source: Jeff Passan

[Devinep]

1 hour ago, Gump said:

I may be the only one that thinks this……but the MLB needs a salary cap..

Yep. And floor. And anyone who thinks that wouldn’t help with competitive balance is fooling themselves 

[JosephC]

17 minutes ago, TURBO said:

Unbelievable, I mean, this is now getting cartoonish...  Baseball is broken.

 

The Dodgers are signing Tanner Scott to a four-year, $72 million deal, according to ESPN’s Jeff Passan.

Well, that’s one way to make sure he won’t be striking out Shohei Ohtani in October. Scott, 30, has been one of baseball’s best relievers the last two years, posting a 2.04 ERA in 150 innings. This probably settles the closer question in L.A.; though Scott doesn’t necessarily need to be in that role, the paycheck demands that he get the first try over Michael Kopech and Evan Phillips.

 

Source: Jeff Passan

MLB and the TV networks don't think so.  Put the Dodgers in the World Series (preferably against the Yankees) every season and the sport completely healthy and operating just as intended.

[jay87shot]

Without deferred money and just averaging out deals I have the Dodgers payroll at over 365 million. By splitting Ohtani's 70 being the rotation and position players, 180.3 on position players, 134.2 rotation (more when the resign Kershaw), 50.8 bullpen. I get that when you do the deferred money and whatever ever it is a lot less. That is also not counting the luxury tax bill and money sent to Japan for Yamamoto, Kim, Sasaki (if you spread out payment as AAV). My guess is that would put them near 500 million in team value.

[Thurston Fluff]

My hope is more cable networks go bankrupt to force MLB to centralize all games into a single streaming source run by MLB. By centralizing all the money in one service all the teams would have an equal share of the revenue.

[Joseph Zarr]

The Dodgers are an incredibly easy team to root against. Zero interest in their success. That is all I have to say on it. They can assemble their Death Star but let us all remember: the rebel factions ultimately prevail.

[Vgmastr]

24 minutes ago, Thurston Fluff said:

My hope is more cable networks go bankrupt to force MLB to centralize all games into a single streaming source run by MLB. By centralizing all the money in one service all the teams would have an equal share of the revenue.

This is Manfred's goal.  The current national TV deals all expire for the 2028 season.  He has said that he wants MLB to take over local TV rights and package them together with the national package and have MLB be able to get rid of the blackout and have all teams sharing TV revenue, just like the NFL.  He says MLB is going to try and convince teams to share TV revenue by letting them keep other revenue they're currently sharing. 

[Frisbee Slider]

3 hours ago, Gump said:

I may be the only one that thinks this……but the MLB needs a salary cap..

Eventually the Dodgers run out of roster spots and can no longer sign more players? 🤷‍♂️

[Frisbee Slider]

2 hours ago, Devinep said:

And anyone who thinks that wouldn’t help with competitive balance is fooling themselves 

Competitive balance is not universally desirable or desired. I consider competitive balance’ to mean 30 similarly mediocre teams with a few random outliers.

[Devinep]

47 minutes ago, Frisbee Slider said:

Competitive balance is not universally desirable or desired. I consider competitive balance’ to mean 30 similarly mediocre teams with a few random outliers.

Interesting. I consider competitive balance to be a team having success being determined by being better at trading, scouting and developing players. Sounds a lot better than certain teams having zero chance at the best players after arbitration and a handful of teams being able to get most of the talent. When was the last time a team in the bottom half of payroll won the World Series? 

[wallus]

Let's get ready to pounce on whomever they need to DFA from their 40 man roster!!