3x the contract for $30M less

[Ruminator]

Pretty sweet comparison!

 

[Ruminator]

Another perspective of Dodgers' "it's just Monopoly money" spending:

 

[Ostatehawk]

I hope the dodgers choke on it.

 

[Crizilla]

Nooooooo not rich MF's spending money!!!

Lolz. Dodgers aren't ruining baseball. Yankees were doing the same thing in the 2000s and only won one world series. Mets with Soto missed the playoffs last season LOL.

 

[DJrmb]

Pretty sweet comparison!

Gotta be careful with that kinda talk around here. It's a known fact that Julio is overpaid... /Sarcasm

 

[IndyHawk]

Another perspective of Dodgers' "it's just Monopoly money" spending:

Actually, it's higher than $429 million with the Tucker signing
and deferred payments with Ohtani well into the future, not to
mention the luxury tax penalty they pay after each season for
being over the threshold which isn't doing what it was meant to
do with the big market clubs.
There has to be a hard salary cap for baseball or it's done.

 

[IndyHawk]

Gotta be careful with that kinda talk around here. It's a known fact that Julio is overpaid... /Sarcasm

He's only overpaid in April and May.

 

[therealjohncarlson]

He's only overpaid in April and May.

Hot take.. with no salary cap there is no such thing as an overpay

 

[Sperrydogg]

Nooooooo not rich MF's spending money!!!

Lolz. Dodgers aren't ruining baseball. Yankees were doing the same thing in the 2000s and only won one world series. Mets with Soto missed the playoffs last season LOL.

So the dodgers are the best at spending money

 

[jman316]

I wish I was the best at spending money…

 

[Ruminator]

Dodgers are the new Yankees: feeding trillions into the vending machine, pulling the knob, and making the World Series trophy come to them with a loud clatter. While the other teams can only afford cheap plastic crap.

 

[bileever]

Kyle Tucker is a decent player, but $240 million for 4 years? $60 million per year? That's ridiculous.

I'm glad he's not on the Astros anymore, but I wouldn't pay $60 miillion per year for an outfielder who hit 22 home runs last year.

 

[Crizilla]

The thing is LA needed a right fielder badly and they didnt want to see him go to the mets or jays.
Meanwhile M's still need a right fielder, 3rd base, and 2nd baseman. Way too much pressure on rookies for 2026 if they dont make anymore moves. Hope someone breaks through.

 

[Azvacar]

ONce all that deferred money has to be paid out at a tune of a Billion dollars, theyll drop off.. they trying to take all they can as fast as they can for now

 

[NoGain]

I can easily visualize a baseball lockout next December when the MLB CBA expires. I think 75% of the owners are going to want some kind of a hard CAP to limit spending, something the players union has consistently and adamantly fought. The Dodgers limitless spending has hastened such a thing.

 

[bileever]

I can easily visualize a baseball lockout next December when the MLB CBA expires. I think 75% of the owners are going to want some kind of a hard CAP to limit spending, something the players union has consistently and adamantly fought. The Dodgers limitless spending has hastened such a thing.

Apparently, there are factions within the players' union that also want a salary cap, mainly non-superstars. But the salary cap would have to be like the NFL salary cap, that uses a percentage of revenue/profits to determine the cap. There would also have to be higher base salary, and a hard floor requiring teams to spend more for salaries. That's the sticking point--there can't be a floor unless there is more revenue sharing, and teams like the Yankees and Dodgers don't want that.

The owners don't realize that they're killing baseball without a salary cap. There are teams that never compete, year after year. The fans in those cities are sick of it, and they will eventually lose interest, if they haven't done so already. The same teams hoard all the superstars, and even if they don't win, that's bad for baseball.