said<\/a>, per NJ.com. \u201cNow, they didn\u2019t get A-Rod as a free agent, but they\u2019re one of the few teams that could afford that contract… Yankees use their advantage of money and they used it very very well. And Yankee fans didn\u2019t have a problem with it. So Met fans and Yankee fans can\u2019t really have a problem with the Dodgers.\u201d<\/p>\nIt\u2019s hard to argue with the logic, and that\u2019s what it is.<\/p>\n
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For decades, the Yankees did whatever it took to win. They outspent everyone, made trades, and acted as the Dodgers did now.<\/p>\n
That championship core was built largely through free agency and it wasn\u2019t going out and just adding one very good player. They seriously did exactly what the Dodgers are doing right now.<\/p>\n
The fact of the matter is that they aren\u2019t breaking rules, doing something other teams can\u2019t, or anything else. They\u2019re simply operating with the biggest budget in baseball and will continue to do so until baseball says they can\u2019t.<\/p>\n
The truth is that Major League Baseball has always been this way, as big markets have advantages. While that\u2019s the case, look at the Chicago Cubs, a big market that doesn\u2019t spend.<\/p>\n
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I\u2019d get Cubs fans complaining, but for Yankees fans, be mad at the ownership and front office rather than baseball. They both have more than enough to go out and get something done.<\/p>\n
However, blaming a team for using its resources, especially when the Yankees once did the exact same thing, isn\u2019t very fair.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Every time the Los Angeles Dodgers make a big move, the same conversation across baseball comes up. That…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":526138,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[19307,5,1333,2500,161,29,57,19,36014,13577,4,61,62,42166],"class_list":["post-526137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-a-rod","tag-baseball","tag-cc-sabathia","tag-championship","tag-cubs","tag-kyle-tucker","tag-los-angeles-dodgers","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-mark-teixeira","tag-michael-kay","tag-mlb","tag-new-york-mets","tag-new-york-yankees","tag-yankee-fans"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/115914898373852858","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=526137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526137\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/526138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=526137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=526137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=526137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}