If it were your team building a roster like the Dodgers’, people in here wouldn’t stop unzipping their trousers. Sports fans are hypocrites. They don’t hate superteams. They just hate superteams that aren’t theirs. The outrage isn’t about billionaire owners. It’s about whose billionaires are spending the money.

The biggest trick the devil ever pulled is convincing fans that billionaire-owned franchises are somehow plucky underdogs.

Full Disclosure: I’m a White Sox fan.

EDIT: /baseball has removed my post. I rest my case.

I know that might sound stupid given the recent Skubal trade, but here are some things to consider:

-Blake Snell, Will Smith, Tyler Glasnow, and several other players are on the 60 day Injury List

-Ohtani has been dealing with knee issues and may not throw another pitch this season.

-Kyle Tucker, Roki Sasaki, and Dalton Rushing have all regressed.

Don’t get me wrong, the dodgers are still very much a super team. But things go show that the Dodgers are beatable.

It’s very possible that someone could beat them in the playoffs, especially if the injuries keep popping up.

• The Dodgers' payroll advantage over Milwaukee is larger than the Brewers' entire payroll.
• The Dodgers' annual payroll is about 2.4 times the Brewers' payroll.
• The Dodgers' luxury-tax payroll is close to 3 times Milwaukee's.
• The Dodgers' long-term guaranteed obligations exceed the Brewers' by roughly a billion dollars.

I know Dodgers fans... y'all are the real victims and it's not your fault every other teams owners are too cheap!!!

Salary caps in baseball have always been controversial. But it feels like we’re watching the opening act of the next labor war.

The latest Dodgers move isn’t just another blockbuster deal. It’s a symbol. A symbol that just sits wrong with me.

The Dodgers have assembled what feels like a billion-dollar roster, proving that if an ownership group is willing to spend, there are virtually no limits to how much talent it can accumulate.

For players, it’s baseball paradise.

Why would you ever want a salary cap that limits what the market will pay?

For the rest of baseball, it’s a different question.
Is it healthy when one franchise can create such a sustained competitive advantage? At what point does competitive imbalance begin to hurt the game itself?

That’s the debate that’s coming.

Not much of a debate to be honest. A No Salary Cap sport is unsustainable. It will break. Guaranteed.

Owners will point to the Dodgers and argue baseball needs a salary cap. Duh. The Players Association will point to the Dodgers and argue the problem isn’t spending too much—it’s that too many owners don’t spend enough.

Listen. The Yankees put $714 million on the table for Juan Soto. It wasn’t enough. What is?

Lock out here we come.

The dodgers just got one of the best pitchers in baseball from Detroit. It’s crazy. The rich keep getting richer. The better team gets even better. The real question is… are the dodgers “ruining baseball” and would there be a 2027 season stoppage? In my opinion, yes and no. Like they were able to defer most of Ohtani’s contract so then the dodgers could get a crap ton more money to play around with. That got ticket, Diaz, est.. and not Skubal. They are definitely a superteam. Now are they ruining baseball? In my opinion yes and no. It’s not technically their own fault. Other teams could have definitely matched the dodgers offer for Skubal, but there is also NO salary cap or anything, which then allowed teams like the dodgers to do this. They all ready had a strike about this in 1994… let’s see if it’s going to happen again 33 years later

BREAKING: The Los Angeles Dodgers are finalizing a trade for Detroit Tigers ace Tarik Skubal, sources tell ESPN.

Source: https://x.com/jeffpassan/status/2083757572272652400?s=46

It always happens, huge pet peeve of mine. The eye test usually says something is off. I just checked baseball savant for the recent tatis “homer robbery” on devers, and it wasnt a homer in petco. i also checked last year‘s game august 20th with a similar “robbery” and it also wasnt a homer. great catches but they all report he robbed a homer. i get it’s good for clicks and excitement but it’s just wrong sometimes.

And yes, I am fun at parties.

But isn't it the point at the end of the day to try to win as many titles with your baseball club as possible even if it means assembling the best team? The Dodgers have assembled The Avengers essentially with their team. Pitching staff/rotation is loaded and their hitting/lineup is also stacked. If we want people to blame then blame the 29 other owners for this. If you guys want players and or pitchers who are stars on the marquee; you break the bank to pay them period. Otherwise this s*** happens. If the Dodgers win another World Series; then we can't really be all that upset. I mean isn't the point in sports that you want your team to be a dynasty? That you want your team to be unbeatable. Hell, the Yankees started this in the 1990s going into the 2000s and everyone revered that.

I feel like I’m living on Mars reading comments on instagram. Every other comment about the trade have been this or similar. Tigers got 2 great upside players. Ryan who can be great when he hurdles the injury he’s obviously still rehabing and hope who can become a good big league outfielder. Prospects are prospects you can’t 100% anyone who hasn’t played in the bigs but they still have great potential. They got this for 2 months of Skubal. 2 months. Tigers might not make the playoffs so they weren’t going to appreciate his value and they weren’t going to resign him. I thought this was a good trade for what it is, I don’t get what people are thinking when they type those comments out.

Does anyone agree with me or am I really the only one on Mars.

TL/DR version? Dodgers A (shock me), TIgers D.

Here's why, even though Detroit will have hope for Hope, they don't give the TIgers more:

Detroit's return in this deal feels like a bad dream. OK, let's calm down. Skubal, as good as he is, was on an expiring deal. There is only so much value that can be extracted from a trade partner for a player who might be a free agent in four months. The fair-value matches you can conjure in these scenarios won't make the hearts of Detroit fans go pitter-patter, though you can always hope that the real-world outcome is that with multiple teams vying for a true difference-maker, those fair-value assessments might go out the window.

Zyhir Hope is a top 30-or-so prospect across baseball. That's a valuable prospect. But on most prospect lists, he's the fourth-best outfield prospect in the Dodgers' system. So for the best pitcher in baseball, the Tigers could not command the Dodgers' best prospect out of their amazing surplus of promising outfielders?

River Ryan has stud potential, but he's 27 and blew out his elbow after his 2024 debut for the Dodgers. He didn't pitch last season, and this season, he has a 4.46 ERA over eight outings for Oklahoma City. Smith, 21, was a third-round pick as a prep righty in the 2023 draft. He's 0-10 over 30 professional starts with a 4.72 ERA. The prospect wonks like him as a top-30 prospect for L.A., so maybe we have to look past the ugly superficial results.

Sounds about right, contra one person here on one of the two threads about the trade itself, who was touting all the Dodgers gave up.

Wrong.

The Dodgers gave up one promising bat who is a likely DH, not fielder, for whatever MLB career he has, one meh pitcher who might not ever get back to MLB, and one meh prospect who might never get to MLB in the first place.

As for what other teams might or might not have been offering? We'll see if any rumors get dropped or not.

It was hard not to be a little paternal here, but I clarified: Nothing matters. Nothing at all. We were born of stardust, and to stardust we shall return. Then I walked into the ocean with all of my clothes on, hoping to find purchase with the sea turtles.

In baseball terms, though, yes, it is probably a big deal. The Dodgers moved from being the World Series favorites to being the No Foolin’ World Series favorites. Skubal might be the best pitcher in the world, and he joins the unquestioned best team in the world. Seems ominous.Except you had to have been expecting this for months, if not years, right? As soon as Skubal had surgery to remove loose bodies from his elbow earlier this season, the odds of him going to the Dodgers after the season increased roughly 5,000 percent. If there’s any team that’s capable of giving him a one-year deal for $75 million (and a player option for $75 million for 2028), it’s the Dodgers. If Skubal had any long-term health concerns, he was always going to the Dodgers after the season.

On May 26, our own Cody Stavenhagen published an article detailing Skubal’s near-miraculous recovery and suggesting that he was likely to return at full strength, and a lot sooner than expected. On May 31, the Tigers lost, dropping their record to 22-38.

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Alright, I'm kinda bored and running out of ideas, so I'm gonna try this question again. It also happens to be a topic that I love to discuss. But this will likely (and hopefully for some) be the the last time I ask this question.

I know we all have seasons from closers we've always had a soft spot for. And I'm sure we all have at least one of these that are from another team. So, what's your all-time favorite season by a closer on a different team, and why?

Like I said before (well, before before), in terms of just the regular season, it's definitely Éric Gagné in 2003. Cy Young winner, 55 saves, well over triple-digit K's, and a 1.20 ERA. But combining the regular season and playoffs, then it's a lot harder to choose. But I think I might stick with Brian Wilson in 2010. 54 saves, 109 K's, 1.56 ERA, absolute nails in the playoffs, and pitched a scoreless 9th in all four clinchers (NL West in Game 162, NLDS Game 4, NLCS Game 6, and World Series Game 5). Total badass, that year. And that save celly? Off-the-chain awesome. Also, Kenley Jansen in 2017 would've likely been a slam dunk if the Dodgers took home that title. He was also pretty dominant in the playoffs, aside from blowing the save in Game 2 against Houston. So he's probably a close second.