The Dodgers Might Actually Be Ruining MLB

The Dodgers Just signed Kyle Tucker and its this is really not good for the rest of MLB. Major League Baseball is in trouble, the Los Angeles Dodgers have put together one of the best teams in the history of baseball with the new signing of Kyle Tucker. Along with superstars, Shohei Ohtani, Freddie Freeman and Mookie Betts, how could anyone possibly compete with this incredible roster?!

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  2. Until ratings and attendance fall because of the Dodgers spending there won’t be a lockout long enough to create a salary cap. Not only have they not declined it’s rising

  3. For everyone saying it’s a guarantee they win again…every sportsbook has them around +220. The KD Warriors were -330 on opening day 3 years in a row. Dodgers were 0-12 against the Brewers and Angels in the regular season last year. They are beatable

  4. You guys are forgetting that Mookie has shown a lot of regression offensively the last two years. Freeman hasn’t been the same since his ankle issues and turns 37 this season. Maybe the illness that caused Mookie to lose 30 pounds this season was responsible for his regression, but if not the offense isn’t as elite as you think.

  5. They said the dodgers ruined baseball last offseason but they only won the division by a few games and the blue jays were 2 outs away from winning it all. Games are won on the field not on paper. Baseball is an unpredictable sport.

  6. Hard disagree. What's happening is that a lot of ownership groups are making too much money that they aren't spending on players. A lot of the league is colluding and specifically trying to force the MLBPA to cave and submit to a salary cap. And the Dodgers are an outlier that just don't care and would rather win

  8. I dont want to hear ANYTHING About the Dodgers breaking Baseball. Side note I went to a lot of Dodger Games at Dodgers Stadium in the 80's Wearing, Giants, Phillies and others Hats. Lets Recap –
    NEW YORK YANKES – World Series titles (27) 1923, 1927, 1928, 1932, 1936, 1937, 1938, 1939, 1941, 1943, 1947, 1949, 1950, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1956, 1958, 1961, 1962, 1977, 1978, 1996, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2009
    Closest team to the Yankees, St. Louis Cardinals with 11. Close to 3 times more… Wait Dodgers, A's, Red Sox – 9 titles, yes so Yankees have the same number of titles as these tree combined.

  10. I looked up Kyle Tucker's stats for last year: .266 batting average; 22 home runs; 73 runs batted in. Solid numbers, good even, but certainly not great. He did hit 25 doubles, (though Freddy Freeman hit 39). As a Dodgers fan, I'm glad they got him, but I don't know what fans from all the other teams are crying about. Kyle Tucker just isn't THAT good!

  12. Fun fact: adjusted for inflation, the US spent $5.74 trillion dollars during WWII. The US won the Cold War by spending the USSR into the ground. Or as our friend Cicero once said: "The sinews of war are infinite money." Turns out, if you want to win, FUCKING SPEND. Oddly enough, the same principle applies to sports. Last I checked, professional baseball players don't play for free. And the best ones demand the best wages. And as it also turns out, meeting those demands and paying what the best players are worth, grants you access to their talent. Who woulda thunk it? Baseball isn't a friendly office softball league, it's a professional competitive sport. You play to win, and you win by whatever means necessary. The Dodgers are one of the most exciting things to happen to the MLB since steroids. Small market crying is a tale as old as time. Who cares? let them cry. Small market crybaby shit is what kiboshed Chris Paul to the Lakers all those years ago, I have hated their worthless asses ever since. Vamos Doyers! I hope they win 10 in a row.

  14. all this "concern" just amounts to the dodgers are investing into their brand and their players well, took advantage on the international pull of the greatest baseball player ever (angels failed at this) and are reaping the rewards of their investments. Produced a legacy that lasts, are playing by the rules, aren't cheating, and literally will do all they can to win.

    Here is the reality. If we are talking about issues of competition, then imagine the dodgers deciding to not do what they need to win over this nebulous "moral" stance on the competitiveness of the sport so that all the other teams can "have a chance".

    That is not real competition. That is fake competition. The big kid is doing so well that he is told to slow himself down for the rest to catch up.

    dodgers can do what they want within a free market. If dodgers can offer more and are playing by the rules, it means they have built an empire to allow this to happen. Its as simple as that and if the dodgers make it so MLB has less viewership due to lack of competition then SO BE IT.

    I'd rather have that than manufactured competition. I'd rather have all the other teams see the "evil empire" and make it their goal to take them down than for the "evil empire" to nerf themselves because the rest of MLB is crying and moaning about how unfair it is that someone has more than them because they are overachievers. This isn't communism.

  16. With all this complaining about the Dodgers being bad for baseball, I'm curious to see what TV ratings are gonna look like come October. I bet it'll be just fine lol.

  18. MLB owners ranked by wealth 2025/2026 – the team's net worth/richest
    30 MLB team
    22 are billionaires
    Dodgers rank 6th among all MLB billionaire owners

    If they are smart enough to become that wealthy, they can figure how to create a Dodgers-like franchise

    1. Steve Cohen – $21.3 billion (New York Mets)
    2. Edward S. Rogers III – $11.4 billion (Toronto Blue Jays)
    3. John C. Malone – $10.8 billion (Atlanta Braves)
    4. Lerner Family – $6.4 billion (Washington Nationals)
    5. Mark Walter – $6.0 billion (Los Angeles Dodgers)
    6. Lawrence & Paul Dolan – $5.5 billion (Cleveland Guardians)
    7. John Henry – $5.5 billion (Boston Red Sox)
    8. Arte Moreno – $5 billion (Los Angeles Angels)
    9. Charles B. Johnson – $4.9 billion (San Francisco Giants)
    10. Tom Ricketts – $4.5 billion (Chicago Cubs)
    11. John Middleton – $4.1 billion (Philadelphia Phillies)
    12. William O. DeWitt Jr – $4 billion (St. Louis Cardinals)
    9. Jim Pohlad – $3.8 billion (Minnesota Twins)
    10. Ilitch Family – $3.8 billion (Detroit Tigers)
    11. Hal Steinbrenner – $3.8 billion (New York Yankees)
    12. Ray Davis – $3.8 billion (Texas Rangers)
    13. David Rubenstein – $3.8 billion (Baltimore Orioles)
    14. Ray Davis & Bob Simpson – $3.6 billion (Texas Rangers)
    15. John Fischer – $3 billion (Oakland Athletics)
    16. Jerry Reinsdorf – $2.3 billion (Chicago White Sox)
    17. Jim Crane: $2.4 billion (Houston Astros)
    18. Bruce Sherman – $1.3 billion (Miami Marlins)
    19. Ron Fowler – $1.2 billion (San Diego Padres)
    20. Bob Castellini – $1 billion (Cincinnati Reds)
    21. Charlie Monfort – $1 billion (Colorado Rockies)
    22. John Sherman – $1 billion (Kansas City Royals)

  19. If they implement a salary cap because all the other teams and their fans complain so much,it will be known as the year that the rest of the league and their fans showed what jealous pathetic losers they are for not competing instead. The type of sad losers everyone else is, its like watching coach Klein in high heels scream into an unplugged phone receiver. 😂😂😂. There is some good that will come of this for Los Angeles as a whole. The players will know and all of Los Angeles will know that we will be able to brag forever that the rest of the league banned together out of jealousy to stop the Dodgers success rather then actually compete. Every WS after we in Los Angeles can make fun of it for life if anyone else wins it! We will call it the asterisk championships! So yeah, turn the players against your teams. It will only make them want to play for L.A. even more. 😂😂😂😂

  21. I can't disagree more about a lockout. The players are getting paid more than ever, the sport is being watched at a higher rate than ever, we've been given two of the most thrilling (and most viewed) world series's back to back, owners are making a fortune off of the Dodgers success…honestly, the only people who aren't thriving are the diehard fans of teams that aren't the Dodgers, which is an issue, but according to the ratings, more people are watching now than ever before. What would the lockout be for? I doubt it happens tbh. At most, they'd have a quick winter meeting and instill a salary floor, which tbh probably won't stop this Dodger front office anytime soon…

  22. IMHO it feels like any truly competitive person or team playing against the Dodgers, should be motivated to beat them more than any other team. I would be pumped to play them every time and I would motivate my team with the David & Goliath analogy. BTW, even if the Dodgers beat the National League and get to the playoffs/World Series, you can never discount your opponents pitching. Pitching wins championships and we've seen underdogs beat teams that almost no-one thought they would beat. Let's not start handing out trophies before the games have been played, participation trophies mean nothing. The Dodgers have won the last 2 WS but let's see if this "great" Dodger team can win 5 World Series in a row like the 1949 – 1953 Yankees did. Let's see if they can win 6 WS in one decade, also by the Yankees, in the 1950's. If that happens, then we can put them in this elite tier that so many people are crowning them with already.

  24. They're better than any little league team? No way! You've never seen my local 8U team! They'd stomp the Dodgers. Absolute units on this 8U team!

  25. Dodgers are the best run organization top to bottom. Not just spending more, but spending well at all levels of the game. And they still came a catcher’s cleet away from losing. Nothing is guaranteed. Thats why they play the games.

  27. baseball needs a salary cap. this is just absurd. it feels like a waste of time to even watch baseball. we all know who's winning the world series this year. just give them the trophy and don't bother playing the games

  28. All I will say is this: It's one thing to go out and get pieces you need to fill gaps, it's another thing to go out and buy players you don't need and offer them more money than any other team could offer just to rub in the fact you have more money than everyone else. That toxicity is what will destroy the integrity of America's past time.

  29. I like how the short summary to this is just

    The dodgers are making the most of what they have, which is money

    If there's someone to blame it's the mlb itself not the dodgers cause if any other team had the incentives the money and the development structure of the dodgers then we would just be having the same Convo, just for a diff team

    So force the mlb to take action instead of whining about how the dodgers are just doing their job

    Making sure they win again

  30. To your “is there even a point to watch baseball.” The Dodgers were almost eliminated multiple times in the World Series. Would we still be talking about this with the same scrutiny if they did not go back to back? I especially ask because there were years where other teams including the Dodgers were top three and spends and either didn’t make the playoffs or were first round exits. I still fully believe that is a team where anyone can win because anyone can get hot.

  31. 2nd comment here, overall I would love the owners to open up their books in general however, I would really like to see what their books look like when the Dodgers come in as a road team. I’m obviously biased as a fan but i want to see how much ticket sales go up during those games because people either are fans or want to watch their team potentially take down the champs.

  33. Its insane that the Yankees spend for 60+ years in the 20th century, and the Dodgers do it for 5 years, and people cry foul. It is just ridiculous. You cant say "Yankees didn't spend as much" that is because of inflation, the amount they spent in the 70s, 80s, 90s, was a lot.

  34. I don't like the Dodgers but I don't blame them for utilizing the system in place, I blame MLB. Yes, the deferred money will eventually catch up to them but it's completely asinine to only count the contracts against salary WHEN THE PAYMENTS ARE MADE, not for the years covered by the contract. It's the player's prerogative if they're okay with being paid later, but it's nonsensical that someone can sign like a 10 year, $700 million contract but only count for like the $2 million against the cap they're paid that season.

  35. What a crybaby. Dodgers aren't ruining baseball, they're RULING baseball by filling up stadiums, putting butts in seats, and skyrocketing the tv ratings. They're THE team people want to watch, not just in the U.S., but in Japan as well. No other team can boast that.

  36. How much better does this Dodger team "look" compared to how good the Dodgers looked going into the 2025 season? Diaz is in the same league as Scott looked to be before the season, but Scott was a disaster. Tucker is certainly better than the Dodgers expected Conforto to be, but they certainly expected Conforto to be dramatically better than he was.

    Take the difference between Tucker and what was expected of Conforto, how does that compare to the expected decline of veteran players like Mookie Betts? The Dodgers are one of the oldest teams in baseball, and with that comes a number of players reasonably expected to be worse in 2026. Honestly going into the season I think the Dodgers look about the same as going into 2025. Granted they will probably end up being better, as what are the odds that Tucker and Diaz will be the disaster Conforto and Scott were? The expectation should be about the same.

    It's also not as if they had it easy winning the championship this last season. They came as closer to losing game 7 than any team that has won ever did. 3 times.

    The league should also want the Dodgers to make the World Series. This past year saw the highest World Series ratings in game 7 than in any game since 1991 (a span of 34 years), drawing in millions of viewers from Japan who would certainly not have tuned in for any other team. And in terms of drama, game seven had the highest cumulative championship win probability added (a measure of how back and forth the game was) of any game in history. There were 9 plays in that game alone that changed the championship win probability of each team by 15% or more, including the biggest defensive play of all time (Mookie Betts double play), with Will Smiths home run not far behind, Rojas's behind that. Rojas's throw home, Pages's catch, and outs 2 and 3 in the top of the 10th were in there as well.

    The Dodgers being in the World Series is good for baseball.

  39. The NBA kinda had this perceived problem when the Warriors were dominating. There was an aura of invincibility especially when Kevin Durant joined. Postseason ratings didnt tank though cause there was still plenty of narratives around how far certain teams push the Warriors. Same with football, it survived the patriots and chiefs dynasties just fine.

  42. Stop this nonsense. Your teams owners is being stingy and doesn’t know how to run a business; and you are blaming the dodgers? Players wants to join winning team and make a buck; and you are faulting the players too? Did you say the same for Chicago Bulls? New England patriots?

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