The Official 2025 MLB Season Thread

[tremonthustler1]

I've already sonned you bozos enough on the need for a salary cap. Give me a floor with the cap and we're good. No reason we shouldn't be thinking the Brewers are gonna load up this winter by signing Schwarber, Cease and Kyle Tucker but we know they aren't going after any of them because they don't have to spend a dime.

Salary caps don’t preclude that they’ll spend up to that point. It just means if they wanted to, now they won’t have to spend so much.

MLB is the only league where theoretically you never ever have to sign a free agent because you have 3+ tiers of minor leagues to bring talent in.

That’s why even with a cap, a third of the league won’t bother offering big deals.

 

[tremonthustler1]

The dodgers clock more dough from their tv deal than any team in mlb (300+ mil annually)

They have dough to spend that others don’t.mad mlb Owners do be cheap but dodgers have dough that not even the Yankees have to spend

While that is true, a guy like Sasaki went to the Dodgers for just pool money because he wanted to. Murakami may or not just choose a West Coast team because of geography.

Players will take less to sign elsewhere and owners won’t mind.

 

[Jaylen Tatum]

Jon Heyman of the New York Post reports that the Dodgers are expected to pursue Kyle Tucker in free agency this winter.

 

[drifter]

So he’s underpaid not even a full season after. Then followed that season with another MVP type and the GOAT game headed into a second straight WS.

Greatest contract of all time and said it at the time. From the economics of Japan, to players coming over, to the deferral. Also said whoever’s up next is getting boosted off it and that deal will be one of the WOAT and burst the bubble. Soto’s great but the contract says he’s 65 million better than Ohtani. And shout out plantano power but you don’t have the horses to catch Japan and even things out. There was no reason for that dollar amount for Soto besides the timing off another guy. Mets probably won’t see 700 until the back half if at all. I still understand it for the Mets even still but yeah

 

[Da_Eggman]

As good as Ohtani is, I really cannot give a shyt.

He's a great player but these Dodgers are boring and have zero personality.
There's no reason for anyone to watch this team or fall in love with this team or really even hate this team.

They may very well win their 3rd World Series in six years but how are they a dynasty when there's nothing interesting or exciting about them? There's no story to tell here.

When you had the Core 4 Yankees, that was a team to watch.
The 90s Braves with their starting rotation was a juggernaut and you had narratives around that -- even if they didn't win multiple titles.
Even the self-proclaimed Idiot Red Sox were interesting.

If you're a Dodgers fan you're thrilled.
But I don't care. And it's not jealousy or spiteful thing. Teams I'm not a fan of in other sports have been very interesting and attention-grabbing. The Golden State Warriors, the LOB Seahawks...whatever. I'm just saying.

I don't think these Ohtani Dodgers will leave any mark 10 years from now.

Bruh coming from a spurs fan


This is a message do baseball teams need to be more aggressive in spending and trading

 

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Bruh coming from a spurs fan


This is a message do baseball teams need to be more aggressive in spending and trading

If you’re the Dodgers or Yankees you ought to be leveraging your wealth to sign everyone you can.

I just don’t think you should be allowed to defer most of the contract.

If you’re the Marlins or Royals, you need to heavily invest in international talent and prospect development. You’re not going to be able to compete for the truly big superstars but you should be attempting to buy out free agency years the way the Rays did with Evan Longoria years ago. It’s a risk but it’s the best way to build contenders if you’re right.

Dylan Cease, Garrett Crochet, Chris Sale and others were all White Sox players who came up in the last 10 years or so. Chicago should have been a powerhouse. But they’re cheap and poorly run. A salary cap isn’t fixing that.

 

[Da_Eggman]

There does need to be maybe more lost of draft picks for going over the luxury cap

 

[2ATMsYouSteppinOrWhat]

dam
world series aint til next friday

 

[holidayinn21]

Ohtani deadass the biggest industry plant the game has ever seen

Dude does the bare minimum, yet Manfred puppets like Jeff Passan gotta anoint him.

Clase is likely done in the majors, yet this fool can hide behind his interpreter

 

[King Poetic]

Ok blue jays

U better light these guys up

 

[In The Zone '98]

Gilbert rather be anywhere but here...

 

[genesis09]

Cmon Jays can’t leave runs on base in those situations.

 

[holidayinn21]

Unfukkingbelievable

 

[god shamgod]

Damn Raleigh on , bases loaded inning ending double play

 

[Nabs]

Piling it on now