Dodgers ruining baseball

[Shoeless Moe]

Originally Posted by Peter_Spaeth

Andrew Friedman rules.

A DEI hire could do as good of a job........Friedman is just writing blank checks.

All the credit goes to the owners financing it.

[Snapolit1]

What is ruining baseball is the cheap ass billionaires who own teams who don’t want to spend money to put a great team on the field. They’d rather hold an asset that appreciates in value year after year after year even if they are bad and don’t make the playoffs. It’s like one of us buying a house in a nice neighborhood and refusing to do any maintenance on it, knowing full that in 10 years we will sell it to a developer at a huge profit and he can knock the house down and build a new house in a desirable neighborhood. Those are the aholes ruining baseball. Every owner in baseball could afford to spend money like the Dodgers do.

[packs]

I agree. The revenue sharing has not amounted to increased competitiveness and there should be enforcement from MLB for these teams to actually spend the money to become competitive.

[Balticfox]

That being said I've never seen a player get better/play better because he's paid more.

[Carter08]

I wouldn’t mind some sort of a salary cap but a salary floor might make some sense too.

[packs]

I just don’t see the purpose of a cap in MLB. Very few teams are actually spending money and the teams who aren’t don’t want to be competitive. The cap is supposed to force competition but teams like the A’s aren’t competing under any circumstances.

[D. Bergin]

Everybody wants to "Moneyball", but when everybody else is also Moneyballing, and big market teams are now paying extra for those players that used to be a bargain, it's not quite as effective as it once was.

[Balticfox]

Originally Posted by packs

Very few teams are actually spending money and the teams who aren’t don’t want to be competitive.

I disagree. Throwing money around doesn't automatically improve a team. Nor is it even a necessary let alone sufficient condition.