@howaboutafresca No.
And the players understand that once the cap is in, the owners will eventually just come after the other 10 things in the next CBA negotiation.
The conversation starts and ends with the cap—not the 10 other throw-ins that sweeten the pot.
@jeffbatesx Since Sid Bream touched the plate in the 92 CS, the Pittsburgh Pirates have had 24 top 10 picks in the MLB draft.
They’ve also made the playoffs three times since then.
Any half competent organization could have turned all that draft capital in to some real success by now.
@cap_kang4 This is correct.
The contract has already paid off. It can’t un-pay itself off [absent something catastrophic].
The play has been elite.
The two rings were worth it.
All reasonable signs and inferences also point to the idea that he’s going to be very good again next year.
@DMAC_LA 14 straight years in the playoffs.
Finally, in year 14 of the run, our team’s haters found a couple of games where the entire upper deck wasn’t full.
Yawn.
@DodgersNation We don’t know that, so no need to die on that hill.
It’s hard to win.
It’s hard to three-peat.
One of the [many] reasons it’s hard to do either is health.
We weren’t healthy enough.
Sucks, but it is what it is.