I don’t think it’s not a problem but in ten years the dodgers are probably going to be in absolute poverty and it is concerning to me having lived through some really shitty years with them. I worry about them becoming the next angels whenever friedman retires.
the tax is progressive so there really is sort of a cap to what you can realistically spend. who knows maybe theyre a 100 billion dollar franchise by that time and no one cares but LA fans are fickle.
Like the current payroll soft cap is 170 million or something? at this rate over half of that is going to be on players that are retired by 2035. for a lot of a decade. that is not going to be an insignificant disadvantage unless the landscape really changes a lot or the rules do. Like I can’t see them raising that number any higher any time soon because people are already so pissed about the spending.
We don’t know the rules or the money by the time the defer has to get paid. Dollar might be worthless, who knows. Maybe all their money is in ponzis and they end up like the mets for awhile. There’s enough variables I don’t blame them at all for this, there’s a chance it will never bite them.
look I get it man it’s a big decision but Soto, there’s only five teams that can pay you what you want. It can’t be that long of a process to pick one of them.
edit–well four, nobody believes you’ll sign with the Jays.
Yea it was brilliant. Friedman is probably some kind of savant. I didn’t like him the early years when he was trying to rebuild but my goodness.
The biggest issue i see with this problem though is the smaller market teams like pittsburgh can basically never hold on to a guy like skenes because they cannot afford him. Like they simply can’t. This is an intractable problem though because players will strike if you even think aboutmessing with salary caps or anything like that. I’m also very generally pro- “pay the players what they are worth” kind of guy so take it for what you will.
I think the pirates can but it’d be only paying him and they wouldn’t make profit for at least a few years so they won’t do that–like the rest of the pirates are on rookie contracts I don’t think he’d go for that even if he does want to stay.
Yea exactly he’d be like their only player so they really cannot. He’s on $800k right now. If he puts up another season like the one he just did it’s gonna be a historic contract out of free agency, and if I was a pirates fan I’d be kind of bitter already knowing full god damn well we’re borrowing him. That is how the mlb is right now, I haven’t heard many good solutions.
The Rays are paying the Yankees 15m/year to play at Steinbrenner Field next season. And Mlb moved as many games out of the summer as possible cause it rains there a lot and it’s not a dome.
This is one of the most embarrassing things I’ve seen in sports, you have to play at a division opponent field with his name on it and you’re paying them more than you’re paying any player on your team.
rays still have a bigger problem of where to play from now on, their stadium is bust and nobody wants to fix it cause they don’t want to play there anyway after the lease is up, nobody wants to build the new stadium, and I’m not sure where they’d even go.
My last year a
ball hit to my left that I could make in my sleep & couldn’t get
to it. Came to dugout & told Zack Greinke “Man, I’ve lost a
step”… He said “Nope, You’ve lost 2” https://t.co/12vzbgf4kG
Embarrassing is a bizarre word to use here, unless you think the Rays should’ve had another option in place to deal with their home park being destroyed.
they are playing “home” games vs the yankees while paying the yankees on a field that’s named for the yankee owner. Yes I know the options (montreal is a no apparently their dome roof needs to be fixed too) were limited but that is really bad and there’s just no sugercoating that. I would’ve done about anything else. Split up your home games with parks if you have to.
I think the dodgers don’t retain walker bueller which they’ve kind of been soft signaling for a sec. Talk of him ending up in NY. I don’t mind losing him at all - he looked terrible out of his rehab and they were very lucky to get what they did out of him in the post season. That arm has an expiration date
