Why the “Under 25” rule just broke baseball 😨
This 23-year-old phenom with a 102 mileph fastball and a world record for strikeouts was projected to be the first 300 millionoll pitcher of his generation. Instead, the Dodgers walked away with him for just $6.5 million. Is this the biggest heist in MLB history? At just 20 years old, Roki Sasaki threw the first perfect game in Japan in 28 years. 19 strikeouts, 13 in a row, the most ever recorded in professional baseball. That’s not potential. That’s historical dominance. So why was he cheap? The under 25 rule. Because Roki Sasaki was classified as an international amateur, he couldn’t hit the open market. No mega deal, no luxury tax hit, just a minor league bonus and full team control. Small market owners were furious. If he’d waited two more years, he could have pulled a Yamamoto style $300 million mega deal. Instead, the Dodgers got an absolute cheat
The Dodgers just pulled off the biggest heist in MLB history, and the rest of the teams are calling it a “cheat code.
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5 comments
Buddy he had to😂
Nah some lil kid in Korea will get the big dollar contract😂😂😂😂😂😂😂💔🤪🤪🤪🤪🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬
As if 6.5 million is chump change
Clip farm bullshit
Gotta love those loopholes that benefit the ultra rich and fuck everyone else