The rich get richer: Dodgers add Blake Snell to starting rotation

[True Dough]

So LA goes into next season with these starters:

Blake Snell

Shohei Ohtani

Yoshimoto Yamamoto

Tyler Glasnow

Those Dodgers did okay for themselves last season even without Snell (5-3, 3.12 ERA/1.05 WHIP with the Giants last season). He does come with some injury history, so we'll see if he can stay healthy in 2025.

[chicoescuela]

1. Duck the Fodgers. The MLB needs some type of salary cap.

The fan base of 75% of the teams are going to give up before the season starts.

[True Dough]

2. Agreed!

It's getting well out of hand. The gap between the "haves" and the "have not" franchises is reflective of the American experience: the billionaires are raking in more and more while the everyday American citizen makes do with less and less.

[chicoescuela]

3. very good correlation

[ificandream]

4. Two of the Doogies' biggest names have big risks.

Shohei's coming off surgery and Snell is prone to slow starts. (He had a dreadful start last year. Beginning to wonder if that was all a fake to get a better contract for 2025.)

[ProfessorGAC]

5. I'd Have Considered The Risk Too High

He's only pitched over 18 decisions twice in 9 years.
He's only had an ERA under 3, twice.
He's only had a WAR over 2.2, twice.
He's only pitched over 130 innings, twice.
His career strikeout/walk ratio is well under 3.
He does have a 1.2 strikeouts per inning for his career, and that's pretty good
But, even with his his one super season & tye current economics of baseball, $36 million per year seems a less than prudent financial commitment.

[The Madcap]

6. A few teams will

have to fold before any of this ever gets addressed. Oakland (sorry...Sacramento...no, Vegas), Tampa Bay, Miami, and the White Sox look like good bets to shut it down in the next few years if this continues. They cannot be competitive when the payrolls they can afford won't even buy a AA-quality team.

But Manfred would love having a Yankees-Dodgers WS every single year.

[True Dough]

7. The filthy rich Dodgers

are up to $1 billion in deferred payments to 7 players!!!!


https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/42760649/dodgers-deferred-payments-top-1-billion-7-players