https://x.com/i/status/2011994654292787536
Lockout incoming soon.
Back to back defending champs add Edwin Diaz and Kyle ■■■■■■■ Tucker.
Meanwhile we’re going to roll out the exact same team like nothing was ever wrong!
To be honest, it doesn’t even matter what the Tigers do or could have done. The Dodgers will just fund their LITERAL all star team by deferring $2B in salary and win every single year.
The sport should not exist past 2027 without a salary cap and floor. Period.
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Can we kill the Dodgers?
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Baseball would be SUCH a great sport if the same four teams weren’t always super good every single season.
It’s like old college football, except even worse.
I’ve honestly had enough of it.
Baseball has been slowly killing itself for about 30 years. Now they are just speeding up the process.
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Maybe a salary cap will finally get adopted and we’ll get to keep Tarik Skubal!
Like it should ■■■■■■■ be!!!
Like it is in EVERY OTHER ■■■■■■■ MAJOR SPORT!!!
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https://x.com/i/status/2011999697091911807
I’m totally sure they actually had $60M sitting around in payroll space that they happened to not need for anything else.
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There wont be one. Luxury tax helps every thing.
If you exclude Roki from last year’s class bc he was a pro my Giants have signed the #1 kid in back to back classes.
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If everyone involved was smart they would all see it like we do. Unfortunately some are like junkies that just can’t stop from putting the needle in their arm.
The only way I see the union caving on a salary cap is if the owners go all in like the NFL did all those years ago. Lock the gates, and bring in the scabs.
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https://x.com/i/status/2012028343378456944
The Dodgers have handed out over $2.2 billion in contracts in just the last three offseasons. That number alone is more than the total value of half of MLB franchises, including the team they just beat in the World Series.
Their projected 2026 luxury tax bill is around $165 million. Not payroll — just the tax. That would rank near the middle of the league in total payroll by itself. That’s insane.
Most teams simply cannot operate this way, no matter how smart their front office is or how well they draft. The Dodgers have a massive TV deal, ownership willing to eat historic tax penalties, and the flexibility to treat the luxury tax as a business expense instead of a deterrent.
For a lot of franchises, one bad contract sets them back years.
For the Dodgers, there’s always another move.
MLB doesn’t have a salary cap, and at this point it barely has meaningful guardrails. When one organization can spend more in penalties than some teams spend on entire rosters, the idea of competitive balance starts to fall apart.
You can respect what they’re doing and still admit the system is broken.
Because this isn’t parity.
It isn’t sustainable. At least not for almost every other team.
And it’s not healthy for the sport long term.
It’s making the game boring and more predictable.
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Us waiting for the Tigers to do ANYTHING to improve their offense and/or starting pitching:
Exactly. As you pointed out Bols the issue is not just spending but revenue. There does need to be a salary cap, but IMO there needs to be a minimum team salary floor. I think the Dodgers are testing Manfred. They know that they are one of the teams that stir the drink in MLB. At this point, while I love watching the Tigers now…if a lockout is the only way to break the fever dream baseball has for allowing the larger market teams spending like drunk sailors, then so be it.
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Just saw the contract details. Wow. 4 years 240 million and he can opt out after years 2 and 3 if he wants. That is nuts
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Blue Jays spend crazy money.
Dodgers: Hold my beer hoser.
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About sums it up. Not sure how anyone can compete with 60 mill a season. Tucker is a very good player but we aren’t talking about a 50 home run guy here. His career high is 30 homers for 60 mill a season. Just wild money
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McKinstry had a great 1sy half and fell off like several others, it seems they had things corrected in spring training and forgotten as the season went
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Or, just maybe, McKinstry and others were all significantly overperforming their talent/skill level during the 1st half of the season last year.
What makes me think that? Their previous career stats. Specifically McKinstry. He’s always been a ~.650 OPS guy, who we’re counting on to replicate his .830 OPS that he somehow maintained for four months last season?
Insanity.
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Bo Bichette to the Mets! @stephenboyd57
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Don’t worry about the Tigers though. We like the guys we have.
The guys we have:
