The fan base of 75% of the teams are going to give up before the season starts.

It's getting well out of hand. The gap between the "haves" and the "have not" franchises is reflective of the American experience: the billionaires are raking in more and more while the everyday American citizen makes do with less and less.

Shohei's coming off surgery and Snell is prone to slow starts. (He had a dreadful start last year. Beginning to wonder if that was all a fake to get a better contract for 2025.)

He's only pitched over 18 decisions twice in 9 years.
He's only had an ERA under 3, twice.
He's only had a WAR over 2.2, twice.
He's only pitched over 130 innings, twice.
His career strikeout/walk ratio is well under 3.
He does have a 1.2 strikeouts per inning for his career, and that's pretty good
But, even with his his one super season & tye current economics of baseball, $36 million per year seems a less than prudent financial commitment.

have to fold before any of this ever gets addressed. Oakland (sorry...Sacramento...no, Vegas), Tampa Bay, Miami, and the White Sox look like good bets to shut it down in the next few years if this continues. They cannot be competitive when the payrolls they can afford won't even buy a AA-quality team.

But Manfred would love having a Yankees-Dodgers WS every single year.

are up to $1 billion in deferred payments to 7 players!!!!


https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/42760649/dodgers-deferred-payments-top-1-billion-7-players