The Dodgers make $330+ million per season on their TV deal. The Yankees make a piddly little $125 million. I have heard some rational discussions on the Score about this. They don't have a crazy rich owner like Steve Cohen, either. Tom doesn't talk that much in public for a reason, but he isn't a cheap skate. They need Jed to make better deals and stop paying guys to not play baseball.
I’m going to let this play out before I make a judgment on the trade. The Cubs have exclusive negotiating rights with Tucker for the next 10 months and I sure hope they take advantage of it. I do agree that if he is not signed beyond this season, it would be considered a major f@ck-up on the Cubs part…
I'm good either way. He'd certainly deepen the pen now and the Cubs have the flexibility now and going forward to take it on if they want to.
New cba has to do something about the Dodgers ridiculous payroll and deferred contracts.
I think the next CBA fight will be between owner tiers.
It's up to the owners to stop this nonsense. Deferred money is bad for the game, and as a player I'd be leery of it. Oh, sure, supposedly there are safeguards, but to take what amounts to a promise you'll get paid decades down the line is a risk.
They aren't doing anything outside of the rules, so I assume there will be a carveout to protect them.
Every team in the NL Central except the Cubs has a murky TV situation. Even the vaunted Cardinals are facing payroll pressure with a substandard TV deal coming off of a season with below average attendance. It's really becoming a league of tiers. As mentioned before, I think there is a fight brewing not just between players and owners when this CBA expires, but between about 3/4 of the owners and the big money owners.
As much as I hate “you just have to get in” as an overall team-building strategy, it is true. Dodgers are an absolute juggernaut, but they will have teams they don’t match up as well against, they will have slumps and to make the WS, they WILL have to win a best-of-5 series. Even the 7 game series are shorter and the short series increase variance and things can happen. If I’m in charge, I’m not building my offseason on “hoping” I get in, but once I’m in, there’s a puncher’s chance in any series.
Deferred money has a place, but there probably need to be limits on it. As much as everyone mocks the Bonilla deal, it might have saved the Mets after their owner got wiped out in the Madoff ponzi scheme…..but clearly LA is running this to the sharpest part of the bleeding edge.
All good points - but the offseason isn’t just FAs, either. The Cubs have added multiple guys via trade, most notably Kyle Tucker.
Oh, I don’t know. Worst case MLB would have taken over for a bit until someone bought the team. Capitalism would have prevailed.
Which would be a good signing. The bullpen would be better, and you could still mix Hodge into high leverage situations
Don’t think anyone can claim the luxury tax means anything. Dodgers are making the Yankees evil empire look like a joke.
