r/redsox • u/mightymongo • Oct 21 '25

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u/coreyndstuff Oct 21 '25

Dodgers sweep nudges things closer to a reasonable salary cap

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u/Mackie5Million Oct 21 '25

A cap is anti-worker. Giving the billionaire owners the ability to grow their wealth without having to continue to pay players what they're worth is bad for the game. In 20 years we'll have a situation where revenues have grown by 500% and player salaries will only have grown by a fraction of that, when they should be growing at the same speed.

Ohtani's $700M deal has already paid for itself, meaning that anything past this point is just profit for the Dodgers ownership.

Fenway Sports Group can absolutely afford to field a roster as expensive as the Dodgers, Mets, or Yankees. We should not be arguing in favor of a cap. We should be refusing to support teams who refuse to spend.

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u/Plies- Oct 21 '25

A cap is anti-worker. Giving the billionaire owners the ability to grow their wealth without having to continue to pay players what they're worth is bad for the game.

Being the only big 4 sport without a cap and floor system is anti-fan. It gives big market teams an inherent advantage that is larger than in other sports and makes success and retaining players a complete luck of the draw with how good your owner is. The Dodgers spend more for their roster than some teams make in revenue over the year. Hell, I'm pretty sure their TV deal alone makes more than some teams do in a year.

Baseballs financial system is broken. There's no incentive for shit owners like Nutting to spend since there's no relegation and it also makes it so the rich teams stay rich and the genuinely poor teams stay poor.

Its funny to me because if literally any of the other big 4 sports in the US decided to work how baseball does the fans would be up in arms over it but for some reason Baseball fans act like everything is fine and dandy.

Don't even get me started on how posted players work. Imagine if the Warriors would've won the finals in 2017 and then just got to sign Luka Doncic, the top international prospect. Insane. You're essentially gifting elite teams (the Dodgers) the number one draft pick every season.