The Dodgers’ All-Star starters:
Shohei Ohtani (DH)
Freddie Freeman (1B)
Max Muncy (3B)
Andy Pages (OF)
Max Muncy is the first Dodgers starter at 3B since Ron Cey in 1977.
“The Angels are a glorified minor league team with no apparent vision and no obvious hope for the future.”
@BillPlaschke to Arte Moreno: Don’t wait to see how baseball’s labor agreement turns out. Sell the team now. https://t.co/DQ3BsY3D7j
The 15 owners who don't presently spend at least $171.7M on their teams because they "can't afford it" but miraculously could next year if there were a salary cap should be embarrassed.
I like how most casual baseball fans think this would screw over the Dodgers. Put this hard cap in place tomorrow and we’re still heavy favorites to win the World Series lmaooo
- We replace the $70M AAV spent on Tucker and Teoscar with 2 of our 5 top OF prospects.
- Instead of Friedman splurging $48M AAV on Edwin Diaz, Tanner Scott, and Treinen he goes out and finds more good and cheap arms like how he did with Alex Vesia, Will Klein, Kyle Hurt, Edgardo Henriquez, and Jack Dreyer.
There’s some dead weight still on the roster that you’d have to get rid of like Edman’s $13.5M and Evan Phillips’ $6.5M but for the most part, these moves alone would get us under the $245.3M hard cap with most of the main core in tact lol
The Mets have lost 6 straight and been shut out in 3 of those losses. But go ahead and accuse the Dodgers of buying rings. The Mets can't even buy a RUN.
Arte Moreno, the owner of the Los Angeles Angels, said today that he doesn’t prioritize winning because it’s not even a top 5 priority for the fan base unless you’re a purist. That’s a slap in the face to every fan and feels disrespectful to the players on this team. These guys grind every single day to improve, destroying their bodies for most of the year and sacrificing time with their families, and for the owner of the organization to come out and say winning isn’t the number one priority is beyond embarrassing, it’s insulting, tone deaf, and flat out disgraceful. Honestly, it’s the kind of statement that proves he has no business owning this team and should be forced to sell immediately.
#ReptheHalo #GoHalos #MLB #Angels
Chris Bassitt, MLBPA executive subcommittee member, on the salary cap debate and why he's against it:
“The salary cap doesn’t fix anything. If you look at every major sport with a salary cap, we have the best parity. The salary cap is not the issue. Having suppressed salaries across the league so owners make more money is not the answer.
"If I would tell you in 25 years, the Dodgers would be going to 10 World Series and winning seven of them, is that an issue? Because that’s the Patriots. The Chiefs have been to what, six or seven? The Philadelphia Eagles have been to four or five. The parity in our sport is better than any other sport.
"We will make changes to try to help the so-called bottom teams out, but a salary cap and suppressing salaries and taking from players to try to help the so-called bottom teams spend more? That’s not the answer. Because if you’re trying to make a competitive league across the board, we have proof that every single league [has] less parity than ours. So how can you sit there and say a salary cap is going to fix this when every single salary cap sport has less parity than ours? It makes no sense.
"Again, the root of the answer is not the salary cap, and the root of why owners want a salary cap is not for competitive balance.”
Manny Machado reacts to the Dodgers signing Kyle Tucker and Edwin Diaz and historic spending:
“I f***ing love it. Every team should be doing it… sh*t is f***ing great for the game.”
🎥: @MartyCaswell