The Dodgers agreed to terms with Kyle Tucker OF for 4 yr/$240 M, $30 M in deferrals and Opt Outs after 2027 and 2028. I don't have much to say about this contract except it's a wild overpay in AAV for Tucker and the Dodgers don't care. MLB has a full blown competitive balance crisis on it's hands. If the point of the CBT is to produce competitive balance in the league, it's a complete failure. This must be addressed in the next Basic Agreement if not sooner. If it takes a hard cap to accomplish, so be it. This could get very ugly and is an existential threat to the game as we know it.
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$60 million per season? With opt outs? Nobody is worth that. Do we even still have a salary cap? This is crazy.
ReplyDeleteThe Dodgers should be embarrassed. I guess they followed the rules but even before this they were buying championships. The NFL’s salary cap may not be perfect but I at least it doesn’t allow teams to simply buy championships..
ReplyDeleteThis, for a .266 hitter with 22 HR.
ReplyDeleteThe Doges are outspending the next highest in the league by something like 25%. And they don’t care. You got that right. Until someone makes them stop, they apparently have all the money in the world (and can print more if needed.) and will take every advantage.
With the Kyle Tucker signing the Dodgers are projected to pay a record $169 mil CBT penalty for 2026 which will be more then 12 other mlb teams payrolls. Thats mind-boggling and that alone shows the CBT is not working to help competitive balance and needs to be addressed. The problem seems to be getting worse.
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