Teoscar to Dodgers

[NWinAZ]

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@JeffPassan
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BREAKING: Outfielder Teoscar Hernández and the Los Angeles Dodgers are in agreement on a one-year, $23.5 million contract, sources tell ESPN. Hernández joins Shohei Ohtani, Yoshinobu Yamamoto and Tyler Glasnow on the new-look Dodgers, who add another All-Star bat to the lineup.

 

[wazzu31]

Well damn I was wrong. Didn’t think he’d get close to that, but then again, it’s the Dodgers who are somehow playing with Monopoly money

 

[NWinAZ]

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Of the $23.5 million in Teoscar Hernández's deal with the Dodgers, $8.5 million will be deferred, to be paid out from 2030 to 2039, sources tell ESPN. The corner-outfield market is tough, and Hernández opted for a big one-year deal with the best team over other multiyear offers.

 

[cezero]

wonder what the top offers was from ANY other team.

 

[wazzu31]

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Replying to @JeffPassan
Of the $23.5 million in Teoscar Hernández's deal with the Dodgers, $8.5 million will be deferred, to be paid out from 2030 to 2039, sources tell ESPN. The corner-outfield market is tough, and Hernández opted for a big one-year deal with the best team over other multiyear offers.

Can’t believe the PA or the other owners haven’t stepped in to put a stop to this. The Dodgers ownership group is acting like either they will be selling the team in 5 years or the world is going to end.

 

[Destroydacre]

Can’t believe the PA or the other owners haven’t stepped in to put a stop to this. The Dodgers ownership group is acting like either they will be selling the team in 5 years or the world is going to end.

MLB needs a salary cap AND a salary floor.

 

[wazzu31]

MLB needs a salary cap AND a salary floor.

The CBT was suppose to be the floor. A salary cap can’t ever work in baseball. You may have a cap on money a team can spend on free agency or something but an actual cap is dang near impossible let alone big market teams wouldn’t agree to it.

 

[Destroydacre]

The CBT was suppose to be the floor. A salary cap can’t ever work in baseball. You may have a cap on money a team can spend on free agency or something but an actual cap is dang near impossible let alone big market teams wouldn’t agree to it.

Big market teams can fight it sure, but when the lack of competitive balance kills the league then no teams will be making any money. The lack of a hard cap is every bit as dangerous to MLB as the slow down of games was. There's a reason every other major sport has caps.

 

[wazzu31]

Big market teams can fight it sure, but when the lack of competitive balance kills the league then no teams will be making any money. The lack of a hard cap is every bit as dangerous to MLB as the slow down of games was. There's a reason every other major sport has caps.

I don’t necessarily disagree but what I am saying is it isn’t feasible/possible in a sport like baseball. They have a hard CBT tax and the intent isn’t followed. The other sports it makes sense because they are paying to fund high schools and colleges, or paying the academies. Nor do they pay their young players what they are worth. I can’t see them giving up probably all that money. And players aren’t going to want 4 year max deals.

Sucks as a fan but the health of the sport isn’t an owner or players thought. Shit the Dodgers don’t care about the future of the Dodgers with racking up that much money when the future is so massively unstable for MLB and them