Yes, The Dodgers Are Breaking MLB, But Not For The Reasons You’d Think

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  9. My only issue with this is the whole dance and act they put on for months. WE ALL knew you were going to the Dodgers. Don't waste other teams time and put on this fake tour. Sign as soon as you land here.

  10. Dodger fans show up rain or shine, winning or losing, and sell out Dodger Stadium more than any other team and the stadium holds more than most stadiums..With all the revenue it's time to get some pitching..LETS GO

  12. MLB is careening towards a work stoppage when the current collective bargaining agreement ends in 2026. There is sooo much wrong with the game right now, from the way international players get to choose their teams instead of being drafted into the league, to the way lesser free agents without qualifying offers can actually get better offers than better free agents with qualifying offers, to the general feeling of hopelessness most small market teams have entering into every season. MLB is a mess.

  15. If you look back, the Dodgers have always had a special place in Asia. It goes back decades. All the whining about deferred contracts? They have been happening for years now. I.E. Bobby Bonilla. No one has complained until now. Tough Toodles if other teams can't think outside the box.

  19. forget salary cap, they need revenue sharing among owners. Equal money from tv deal (local and national), merchandising and other source of income. That's how NFL, NBA and NHL do it. MLB does not do that. It's not just free agency, but international scouting, minor league development that are not equal. Your video is correct in that Dodgers… and a few teams like yankees, braves, and astros can spend money on facilities, training, and analytic scouting that can help coaches, players and team improve. Until teams can be on equal ground, then you can insert the salary cap. Salary cap only restrict high salaries for multiple players, but as your video shows Sasaki and many other free agents took less money to be on the Dodgers.

    The Giants offered more money to some of the free agents and couldn't sign any of them in the past few years (Aaron Judge, Otani, etc). There is a reason for that.

  20. A salary cap would further hurt most small market teams and honestly, make the MLB as bad if not worse than the NBA. Adam Silver has completely made that league uncompetitive and a joke.
    Spending doesn’t equal success, case in point 2023 where the top 5 spenders not only missed the playoffs, three of them became bottom feeders.

  21. Idk why the league dragged this out. Roki was gonna be a Dodger no matter what and his mind has BEEN MADE up. 😂 the Dodgers are making a mini Japan in LA! They get all the MVPs, all the best pitchers and all the best hitters. No one else in the league stood a chance to sign him. The Dodgers has unlimited spending power because all their players take deferred money and discounts. They've definitely broke the league. If MLB doesn't revise the whole deferred money scandal and add harsher penalties for teams that over spend, fans will draw away from the sport. Unless your of course a Dodgers fan. Then you'll go on to love it and say "your a hater, your team just don't spend and all the success they gain is earned". Lol simply put, it's none of that. Other teams will spend but the Dodgers swing all the best talent to them. There the only team in the entire MLB that can hand out hundreds of millions in contracts on 90% deferred money. No player would do that for no other team. 😂😂😂 its a straight joke! I was looking forward to the start of the season but not so much anymore. The Dodgers (if healthy) will blow every team out and no one will hit them. Their about to be the 1st team in baseball to have an undefeated season 😂 Their quite literally on the path to sweep every team in the playoffs. Its about to be very boring for everyone that isn't a Dodgers fan. (Although there's no shortage of bandwagon fans). Wow, I have ZERO respect for Roki and all the other Dodgers players! Cheap baseless rings is all they will continue to get. They mean nothing when you don't actually earn it and just buy every good player and create a super duper team 😂 wack!

  22. A Salary cap? Yes, on the minimum an organization can spend. Too many cheap spending, price gouging owners out there. Not fair to fan bases that support their teams only to have minor league rosters.

  25. Why arent international free agents subject to the draft though? Like real question. Baseball is kinda weird. College and high school players dont get to pick where to go but players from other countries do? If they want to come to the MLB let them get drafted. Or change the whole system and have no draft and let everyone be free agents?

  26. "outside of the players they've signed they've developed 4 relievers and fixed 3 guys 8 years ago" and then the only actual example of them working with a hitter in the last 6 years is rojas. thats not real development. Players want to sign with the dodgers because why tf wouldn't you? if your a hitter you get the lineup protection of betts, ohtani, freeman, muncy, hernandez and get a free ride to the ws. If your a pitcher you get the run support of betts, ohtani, freeman, muncy, hernandez and know that when your on the bench you are supported in the rotation by 4 other cy young contenders that are(mostly) bought just like yourself.

    The reason why the dodgers can do this is because they were able to defer a billion dollars in free agency. if just the ohtani contract wasn't deferred (which is a bullshit contract that boxed every team but the yankees and mets out by artificially raising the floor and not getting luxury taxed at the same rate as if he got 50/yr) then the dodgers would be paying with the luxury tax, 540 million dollars this year for this team. That exploit of the rules has allowed them to destroy competitive balance for the next 10 years while they still have the ohtani contract. Unless a cap and floor are put it, its gonna get pretty unwatchable

  30. What this video doesn’t address is the fact that the Dodgers are able to fund this development program, in no small part, because of the insane revenue they get from Japan. They basically have a monopoly on the Japanese market; Ohtani’s contract is paying for itself. The contract, I’ll remind you, that was 2x more money than any contract in history before it. That will essentially be free for them, allowing them to spend more money on development and analytics. No small market team like Baltimore or KC will ever have access to that money, those analytics, and those players.

    So now we’ve wound up with a defending WS champion with a rotation of six #1 guys the year after they spent $1 billion in an offseason. THAT is what will break the MLB.

  31. Just because the roster is stacked, doesn't mean they'll win the next ring suddenly. It's not just about the numbers. But also synergy between players. The boys need to enjoy playing together. To keep that morale and momentum going. Just like any workplace. We'll see how it pans out. Lots of egos and stars in that clubhouse.

  32. They're not " breaking" anything, ffs! The Yankees owned the MLB for 30 years!!!! Ruth to Berra eras
    Dodgers had all those good rookies, until MLB and other owner's started crying about their monopoly on the Dominican Republic ( expos too). They broke all 3 color barriers: Black, Hispanic and Asian! L.A. has great weather as well. Also….. There are many road games that are very close to L.A. : SD, SF, AZ, OAK,…… Seattle , Colorado, KC, TX, HOU to a smaller degree. So there's less travel time than any other city!
    So what, you gonna blame e Dodger's on this too?? Lol
    How dare the Dodgers be so virtuous with civil liberties and break the color barriers!!!!! they need to move to a cold poor city … Let's say … Cheyenne Wyoming! LMAO
    Only millionaires can buy teams, Not Billionaires!!

    The Dodgers also have a top 5 uniform too. Rarely is their a player who doesn't look GREAT in it, let alone ok.
    Eddie Murray and Eric Davis didn't look good in them, I can't think of anyone else.

    Only thing going against being a Dodger: high taxes, Terrible parking, questionable stadium events, no room for mistakes. My favorite time being a fan over my 39 years of following them ( 1985-now) was 1989-93. Their worst stretch ever in LA, and since 1947 as a team.

  38. Bull. Shit. 😠

    Which teams offered more or the same, for longer or the same length of time? Other than someone like NY or the Cubs?

    Holding my breath a-waiting your answer. 🙄

  39. I really don't think its the development side that's attracting the players. It's the roster. Someone on insta made a comment that Roki is basically Durant going to the Warriors. Because if it was about development, the Mariners and Orioles have also been really good at developing talent but you don't see players falling over themselves to sign there.

  41. Geography helps too. LA is a desirable area, and living on the west Coast means a shorter distance and less of a time difference from their home countries.

  43. IDC about the money Dodger spend or don't spend, what IRK me is that all the Japanese high ticket price or talented Japanese players only want to play in the West Coast. I feel the Japanese players are benefiting more than other international players and US players, for instance why should a player that has not played in American baseball get to be a free agent and even if your a young player with little Japanese baseball service time can come to MLB and decide where he wants to play! College players don't get that luxury nor does any other international player. AllJapanese coming to MLB should be put on the MLB draft so other teams can have an opportunity to draft and sign Japanese international players they might be interested in.

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