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NBA probably more likely. Cap complex, floor assures veterans getting paid. Nba would actually work pretty well on mlb too because issue in basketball is 2 elite guys are enough to carry. Thats not the case in baseball.

In 2023, the Padres led the Dodgers.

Schriffen will love him.

Because their revenue model is completely different.

Hey dude, Conforto used to be a 4 WARt player.

Conforto isn’t even as talented as the wart on $50 million dollar Kyle Tucker’s big toe. Most people realize he’s BAD. No, we don’t need to simply “add bodies”, especially not when they are rotting corpses.

It might if you get to 100% revenue sharing, which might lead to a 3 year lockout. Also, draft picks transform franchises much more quickly and completely than they do in baseball, so free agents in baseball are probably more valuable than they are in football.

The Indiana stadium offer to the Bears lets the Bears keep all of the revenue from the stadium. The only thing not explained is the lease. I wonder how much the Bears will pay every year for the lease.

Why would the NFL model not work for the MLB?

Super teams get built with Max contracts and salary caps too. Competitors want to play for winners. A salary floor probably fixes nothing.

Conforto is terrible. Play the bodies here

Targeted and lesser equivalent is a thing just ask my ex wife's hotter friend

Why are people incapable of realizing we need bodies not 50 million kyle tucker

Is that true though? The padres are nearly $150 million behind the dodgers in 2026 payroll according to what I found via spotrac, and I’m not even sure if that includes all of LA’s deferrals. The gap between SD and LA is bigger than the gap between SD and nearly every single other team in baseball.

What would Robert get on the open market exactly?

I suspect that the Mets are offering spare parts (Vientos, e.g.); after Getz rejects offer, they leak to Heyman that Sox’ demands are unreasonable. Spare parts worked for Rays and the Dodgers so I guess they’ll keep trying. Robert wouldn’t have gotten anywhere near $20 mill w/option in open market. Reds just got some little salary relief, so offer to pay down $10 mill and see if Sox can nab comp pick and whatever else. Draft of the decade is coming up, and more cap $ is especially important given their draft philosophy.

This thread need a ConfortNo

Outside of creating some good faith for dealing with Boras, I don't really see the value of forcing him into the lineup. Even if you gave him a 1 yr deal and let him man an OF spot for two months until Montgomery is ready, his stats look like he's toast on the surface.

3/4 is generous

He's not worth it when he only plays 3/4 of every season. If you can't stay on the field, your talent is useless.

The point is that baseball is a zero sum game when it comes to players. If more teams actually spent money on free agents then you wouldn’t have this problem. 20 of 30 teams have a payroll below $200 million. 7 below $100. There’s easily a billion dollars per year in potential salary pool to pry these guys away from LA. And if these other teams truly can’t afford to sign an Ohtani or Tucker away from LA, even with potentially hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue sharing money per year, then they’re clearly terrible business people and should be forced to sell.

The Sox should be way closer to the Dodgers than the freaking Pirates and As. The freaking Padres can do it.

There are definitely some, for sure. I don’t think anyone is disputing that. But there are also many that simply can’t. Jerry could be the owner that we all wish, and he simply couldn’t do what the Dodgers are doing.

There are plenty of teams that can compete. That's ridiculous.

I took the 2024 revenue figures from Forbes for all teams but the Dodgers and backed out ~$100M for non-local revenue sources. That got me to about $300M on average. Unfortunately, I don’t have audited financials for each team, so this is about the best I could do. All that being said, I’m not sure what point your are arguing with. Could some of these clubs spend more money? Of course they could, cheap owners is a problem and they need to be addressed. But it doesn’t change the fact the Dodgers would still be able to outspend them by 2x to 2.5x and still not go into the red. You can try to argue this any way you want, but my point will continue to hold true.