The Harsh Reality Of The Los Angeles Dodgers…

The Harsh Reality Of The Los Angeles Dodgers…

The Los Angeles Dodgers have officially won their second straight World Series, and people are throwing around terms like the Dodgers are ruining baseball and MLB needs a salary cap, blah blah blah. Either way, people are upset, and honestly, it’s time to admit that the anger is misdirected. I am not a Dodgers fan. I do not claim to be. I am actually a Dodger hater. Realistically, I would prefer that they don’t win because I want parody in the sports that I watch. However, pretending that they are not the model franchise in MLB today is simply a massive lie. The Los Angeles Dodgers are not just the best team in baseball on the field, but they are the best franchise in baseball off the field as well. And that has allowed them to build a consistent winner because they take risks and chances that other teams are not willing to take. People don’t like hearing this, but it’s true. The issue isn’t the Dodgers. The issue is the teams that are refusing to be the Dodgers. Let’s take the Yankees for example. The New York Yankees, the big, the bad, the powerful New York Yankees, right? The most famous franchise maybe in all of sports. They traded for Juan Sodto and found their way into the World Series in 2024. And can someone remind me where Wan Sodto played in 2025? Oh, yeah. the New York Mets because the Yankees wouldn’t match their offer. That’s kind of similar to when the Dodgers traded for Mookie Betts because of the patheticness of the Boston Red Sox. But the Dodgers extended bets and allowed him to stay in Los Angeles for the rest of his career. Yes, the price for Bets was cheaper than the price for Sodto. That is true. And yes, the player is more well-rounded, but that doesn’t matter. The Dodgers kept the superstar that they traded for. And because of that, they were better off. The Yankees did not. And instead, they tried to pay 40-year-old Paul Goldmid and Cody Bellinger, who were both solid players. But do they combined to make one Juan Sodto? You be the judge. Either way, they did not have enough firepower in October to make a run to the World Series like they did in 2025. And if you agree with me or disagree with me on this video, subscribe because I’m getting close to 25K and I want to get to 25K before the end of 2025. And if you want more of my content, it’ll be easier to find. So consider subscribing, but you really should. Thank you. Sticking with the Yankees, look where their money is being spent. $18 million to Marcus Strowman, 15 million to DJ Lamehue, and 11 million to Aaron Hicks. That’s $44 million on players that have been cut because they were useless. Stanton also is making $32 million to be a DH that can’t run the bases and didn’t hit well in October this year. What about the Dodgers? $17 million for Chris Taylor who was cut and $17 million for Michael Conforto who was awful this season. That’s not great. But look where the rest of the money is being spent. Glass Now, Snell, Otani, Betts, Freeman, Yamamoto. That’s the top six players on their payroll. Next year, their payroll will be dropping by around $100 million, down from $350 million in 2025. Okay, $350 million is a ridiculous amount, right? Sure. But what did the Yankees owner say last year? He said that a $300 million payroll is unsustainable. Well, that’s weird because it’s sustainable for the Dodgers. And according to Forbes, the Yankees made just $24 million less in revenue than the Dodgers did in 2024. These numbers might not be perfect, but it’s weird that the Dodgers can handle 350 million while the Yankees can’t handle 300 million. Maybe that’s just a facade so that owners can be a little bit cheaper than they have to be. The Dodgers are willing to spend in ways other teams are not willing to. And yes, their owner is richer than most, but adding Shoi Otani on a $2 million deferred deal is a marketing dream. Think about how much money a superstar like Shi Otani would bring in. I guarantee he would pay for his own contract in marketing, jersey sales, ticket sales, and then concession sales that come with Show Otani being in the ballpark in just postseason potential because of adding the new star. If Show Otani is too expensive, what about Blake Snell? The low market Arizona Diamondbacks proved that any team can hand out a $200 million contract as they were ranked 21st in team evaluation, but still paid Corbin Burns $210 million. The Miami Marlins are 30th and they paid 340 million to John Carlos Stanton before trading him away to the Yankees. These teams can afford mega deals, but they choose not to because they’d rather mooch off revenue sharing, which basically allows teams that don’t have enough ticket sales to make a little bit of a profit every year because they take money away from the Yankees and the Dodgers because they are more successful franchises because they try. So, let’s get back to Blake Snell. He got a 5-year $182 million deal last off season. That’s a massive deal and not every team can necessarily pay that all the time. But what deal did he get in the 2024 off seasonason coming off of Sai Young? That’s right. He got a 2-year $62 million deal with the Giants with an opt out after year 1. So he really got a one-year $31 million deal. No team was willing to sign the reigning Sai Young winner for five or 6 years, let alone three or four. That’s embarrassing. But the Dodgers saw talent, took a risk on talent, and now he’s having one of the best postseasons in MLB history with his dominance. Truly shocking that paying the twotime Sai Young winner would be beneficial for whichever franchise pulled the trigger on the talent. Just like Muki, how can you blame the Dodgers for being the only team that was smart enough to make a play for a guy like Blake Snell? What about Yamamoto? They were willing to make him the highest paid pitcher in MLB history before throwing a pitch in MLB. And look how that has worked. Freddy Freeman, they were willing to go over every other offer for a future first ballot hall of famer. And of course, show Otani, they were willing to pay whatever it took for Otani. And Otani said that he offered the Angels the exact same deal he offered the Dodgers. And the Angels didn’t accept it while the Dodgers did. How can you hold the Dodgers at fault that the Angels didn’t sign the best player in MLB when he was right in their hands? This isn’t rocket science. It’s just an embarrassment that other owners continue to allow it to happen. You know what’s going to happen next off season? The Dodgers have already been rumored to make a run at Kyle Tucker next year. And how is this even possible? Well, it’s possible because much like what the Yankees did with Sodto, an extremely high market team, the Chicago Cubs, traded for talent on a walk year and now will probably end up losing them because they were too afraid to extend their talent. Once again, this is the opposite of what the Dodgers did with Mookie Bets and now they are back in the World Series for a second year in a row and the third time since trading for Bets 5 years ago. The Reds and Brewers just made the playoffs and they are already rumored to be shopping their aces, Hunter Greens and Freddy Peralta. Now, shopping is actually a bit of a strong word. That’s not exactly what they’re doing, but they’re available. Now, let’s say the Dodgers decide that they’re going to go out and make a trade for one of these two aces that are on incredibly cheap deals. Hunter Green is getting paid $8 million next year. If he gets traded to the Dodgers, are you going to blame the Dodgers, or are you going to blame the Cincinnati Reds, who are a playoff team, for not being willing to pay Hunter Green $8 million? Which one are you going to blame? Because personally, I’d rather blame the Reds, but I think most of Twitter and MLB fans would rather blame the Dodgers and say that they are ruining it when it’s clearly because the Reds are allowing it to happen. Now, Freddy Peralta is also going to make around $10 million next year. And the Brewers are too afraid to have to pay that after having the best record in baseball this season, the best record. And they are letting their ace go for $10 million. Like, what a joke that is when you really think about it. Why wouldn’t the Dodgers, who draft and develop extremely extremely well, by the way, take advantage of the incredibly stupid team and trade for the incredibly talented pitcher on a discount deal? You’d be stupid to not try to make a play for him. And the Dodgers aren’t stupid, so they will try to make a play for him. You’d also be stupid to trade him. And the Brewers are stupid if they do trade him. Hunter Green is basically the same thing. Another cheap young ace starting pitcher that is being shopped because the Reds are too pathetic to pay their players below market value. Way below market value. How is that the Dodgers fault? What about the Tigers with Trick Scoo? Backto back Sai Young winner and they are over $250 million off in negotiations for a deal. You’re offering your ace, the best pitcher in baseball, not named Paul Skins, $150 million when he’s a free agent at the end of this year. He’s going to get $400 million maybe because of the Dodgers because they’re the only team that pays for talent. Now, instead of paying the player, they’re shopping him because they’re afraid of the price tag. We aren’t talking about Jack Flity. We are talking about all-time great starting pitcher TK Scooble who has been dominant in the postseason who just won the triple crown last season who just won backto back Sai Youngs this season and they are offering him less than half of what he wants and deserves. Not to mention the offer before this season was supposedly less than $100 million over 4 years. That makes my brain explode. That is simply the most disrespectful offer I have ever heard in my life. You might as well have simply called him into the manager’s office, smacked him in the face, stole his jersey, lit it on fire in front of him, told him that they’d rather see Hector start game one of the World Series than ever pay this guy ever again. That is essentially what the Tigers did to the face of their franchise in one of the best pitchers we have seen in recent memory. Now again, if the Dodgers sign this player and pay him what he deserves, it’s their fault. It’s not the Tigers fault for letting their superstar walk in free agency and not matching their offers. How is that their fault? This conversation is unbelievably ridiculous. I got to talk a little bit more about these other teams. The Boston Red Sox are apparently desperate to land Kyle Schwarber if he leaves the Phillies. But he was on the Red Sox four years ago when they let him leave on a 4-year $80 million deal. That’s not even that much money for a very good player and one that you loved so much inside your franchise that four years later you’re still thinking about him. But what was the reason for letting Schwarber walk? because they said both JD Martinez and Kyle Schwarber couldn’t be on the same roster for one year. Oh my god, these teams. Sticking with the Red Sox, what about the Raphael Deers drama? They disrespected him by saying, “Oh, you’re our third baseman if we sign Alex Bregman.” They signed Alex Bregman, by the way, on what was essentially a one-year deal. Told Des to get to DH. He said no. And then they traded him cuz they didn’t want to pay $300 million. I get that that’s a little different, but like if you had just been a good ownership team, that wouldn’t have happened. What about the new issue that’s going on with Bryce Harper and the Phillies? Dave Dumbrosski said, “I don’t know if Bryce Harper is ever going to be elite again.” Could you imagine anyone in the Dodgers organization saying something that stupid because I couldn’t because they are a model franchise. The Dodgers are not going to say, “You know what, Show Otani, I don’t really know if you’re gonna be an elite pitcher ever again because you just went through Tommy John surgery.” Or they’re not going to go up to Mookie Betts and say, “Hey, you didn’t have your best career season this year when you were sick at the beginning of the year, got injured, and then had to learn a new position that you’ve never really played before. You didn’t really have your career year. Are you ever going to be a good player ever again?” No. Obviously, they’re not going to say that because they’re not stupid. The Phillies are stupid with what they did with Bryce Harper. Araldis Chapman just said he would rather die than play for the Yankees again. If he was traded to the Yankees, he would pack his bags and retire on the spot because of how they disrespected him when he was on the team. That is their closer of what, 10 years? And that’s what he’s saying about the franchise after leaving it. My goodness, look at what is happening behind the scenes on these other teams. You will never hear a player say this about the Los Angeles Dodgers though because they are the model franchise in MLB and players from Japan or the Dominican Republic. This stuff matters. Culture is different in other countries. It is built off of respect. In countries like the Dominican Republic and especially Japan, respect is everything. America, it’s not quite like that, but in Japan, respect is everything. So, when you have Shoi Otani and he’s treated well, yes, Yoshobu Yamamoto is going to want to sign with the Dodgers more likely because Shay Otani is explaining the respect factor. He’s explaining how they’ve been treated. And yes, that is a huge deal. But guess what? Every team could have been like that if they respected their players the way that the Dodgers do. Think about the Pirates. If Roki Sasaki was given the same offer by the Pittsburgh Pirates, I’m sure he wouldn’t go there because the Pirates don’t respect their players. When Rowdy Tles was four plate appearances off of a quarter of a million dollar bonus, DFA, this is what the Pirates do. They will cut players instead of giving them a little bonus that they put into their contract negotiations and the players essentially earned so that they don’t have to pay that $100,000 or $200,000. They’ll just cut them. Yes, Roki Sasaki would really like to go and play on that team. He’s going to feel super respected by those owners. No, but you know where he knows he’ll be respected? Where Yamamoto and Otani are saying that he’s going to be respected. So, that’s where he goes. This isn’t the Dodgers fault. This is the other team’s fault for putting themselves in this position. And again, I’m not a Dodgers fan. I said that in the intro. It sounds like I’m a Dodgers fan, but really I’m a fan of the players and I want the players to be respected by teams. I want them to receive what they deserve and I want owners to stop getting away with fans saying, “Oh, the Dodgers are so bad for baseball.” No, it’s not the Dodgers. It’s the other owners that are cheap and are ruining your franchises. It’s your owners. The Dodgers are just picking up the mistakes that your owners make. It is ridiculous that this is blamed on the Dodgers. One more example, the Colorado Rockies signed the face of their franchise, Nolan Aronado, and then they gave the Cardinals $50 million to take him away because they didn’t want to pay the rest of it. And now the Rockies are the worst team in baseball and have been for a while. This is what other owners do. The Dodgers are not going to do this. They have made their fair share of mistakes like trading away Yordon Alvarez. Whatever that trade was, that was a mistake. But has it sunk them? No, it has not. They are at the best spot that their franchise has ever been. And yes, do they have more money than low market teams? Yes. Can other teams do more to compete with the Dodgers and choose not to? Yes. Stop blaming the Dodgers. It’s not the Dodgers fault. It is the fault of the 29 other owners that continue to let this happen. The Dodgers are what every franchise wants their team to be like. Every team can do it. Only the Dodgers do. Thank you for watching. I’m done.

In a dramatic Game 7 thriller at Toronto’s Rogers Centre on November 1, 2025, the Los Angeles Dodgers clinched their ninth World Series title—and first repeat championship since the Yankees’ three-peat ended in 2000—by rallying from a 4-1 deficit to defeat the Toronto Blue Jays 5-4 in 11 innings, showcasing the depth of their star-studded roster. Starter Shohei Ohtani faltered early, surrendering a three-run homer to Bo Bichette in the third, but the Dodgers chipped away with a run in the fourth on a Max Muncy sacrifice fly that scored Will Smith, followed by Muncy’s own eighth-inning solo shot to narrow the gap to one. Down to their last two outs in the ninth, utility infielder Miguel Rojas, a postseason bench player, delivered a stunning solo homer off Blue Jays closer Jordan Romano to tie the game at 4-4, forcing extras. Catcher Will Smith then etched his name in lore with a go-ahead solo blast in the 11th off Shane Bieber—the first extra-inning homer in a winner-take-all World Series game—while World Series MVP Yoshinobu Yamamoto, pitching on zero rest after starting Game 6, heroically tossed the final eight outs to slam the door, allowing just two runs across 17⅔ innings in the Series. Mookie Betts’ clutch hit in Game 6 and veteran Clayton Kershaw’s emotional swan song as a two-time champion rounded out a dynasty-defining run fueled by unlikely heroes and unflinching resolve.

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