[Jeff Passan] Left-hander Blake Snell and the Los Angeles Dodgers are in agreement on a five-year, $182 million contract, pending physical, sources tell me and @jorgecastillo. The World Series champions get the two-time Cy Young winner in the first nine-figure deal of the winter.
November 27, 2024
[Jeff Passan] Left-hander Blake Snell and the Los Angeles Dodgers are in agreement on a five-year, $182 million contract, pending physical, sources tell me and @jorgecastillo. The World Series champions get the two-time Cy Young winner in the first nine-figure deal of the winter.
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The MLB is becoming unwatchable….
But really, fuck the Dodgers and MLB for not doing something about this shit. MLB is about as close as you can get to the EPL with the same few teams being in the hunt year after year with a surprise team thrown in every once in a while. Fuck this shit
MLB is a fucking joke. I mean it’s just blatantly unfair. And not a damn thing is going to get done about it. Without a salary cap this sport is unbearable
Unfortunately this impacts the Reds WS chances next year in zero way
i really hope that they get juan soto as well
mlb should just stop the bull shit and cut lose the teams that are not the yankees dodgers and mets. make all the other teams MILB teams and any time a players performs above lets say… 6 WAR they get forced into free agency and sold to the highest bidder
Honestly, this killed all the newfound enthusiasm I had for baseball in the wake of the new streaming situation, and the Tito hire
The game is fundamentally broken and turning into a Ligue 1 level farmers league situation
nOt A cUrReNt ReD
How are normal teams supposed to compete with this? Baseball is declining while the salary-capped sports are growing. Hmmm, maybe there’s something to learn there!
I hate the fucking Dodgers, man
They will either force a salary cap even if certain parties don’t want it or the game will become unwatchable
They’ve gotta be violating some antitrust law here
Wrong sub
Oh boy, the dodger fans at my work are going to be even more insufferable
For all of those thinking this is unrelated to r/Reds, not to be offensive, but I believe you’re wrong. The more baseball allows this nonsense of overspending, the worse it gets for the entire sport. That’s not to mention that the Dodgers are an opponent, also in the NL, and despite probably not having a shot at signing Snell, it’s one less player available on the market for the Reds to even talk to. Charm and a storied history only go so far, and will almost ALWAYS take second place to money.
That being said, every MLB team should just be forced to give away their best player to LA or NY teams for free, and it would still be less ridiculous than this all continuing.
Competition breeds competition. Money does not.
So, like, $175M of it is deferred for 20 years to offset the tax penalty, right?
![[Jeff Passan] Left-hander Blake Snell and the Los Angeles Dodgers are in agreement on a five-year, $182 million contract, pending physical, sources tell me and @jorgecastillo. The World Series champions get the two-time Cy Young winner in the first nine-figure deal of the winter.](https://www.rawchili.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/1732688163_102_AHnvUsl7XwLsQf4dn09dAPemFJujtE-ems_PnIp7jsg.jpg)
17 comments
The MLB is becoming unwatchable….
But really, fuck the Dodgers and MLB for not doing something about this shit. MLB is about as close as you can get to the EPL with the same few teams being in the hunt year after year with a surprise team thrown in every once in a while. Fuck this shit
MLB is a fucking joke. I mean it’s just blatantly unfair. And not a damn thing is going to get done about it. Without a salary cap this sport is unbearable
Unfortunately this impacts the Reds WS chances next year in zero way
i really hope that they get juan soto as well
mlb should just stop the bull shit and cut lose the teams that are not the yankees dodgers and mets. make all the other teams MILB teams and any time a players performs above lets say… 6 WAR they get forced into free agency and sold to the highest bidder
Honestly, this killed all the newfound enthusiasm I had for baseball in the wake of the new streaming situation, and the Tito hire
The game is fundamentally broken and turning into a Ligue 1 level farmers league situation
nOt A cUrReNt ReD
How are normal teams supposed to compete with this? Baseball is declining while the salary-capped sports are growing. Hmmm, maybe there’s something to learn there!
I hate the fucking Dodgers, man
They will either force a salary cap even if certain parties don’t want it or the game will become unwatchable
They’ve gotta be violating some antitrust law here
Wrong sub
Oh boy, the dodger fans at my work are going to be even more insufferable
For all of those thinking this is unrelated to r/Reds, not to be offensive, but I believe you’re wrong. The more baseball allows this nonsense of overspending, the worse it gets for the entire sport. That’s not to mention that the Dodgers are an opponent, also in the NL, and despite probably not having a shot at signing Snell, it’s one less player available on the market for the Reds to even talk to. Charm and a storied history only go so far, and will almost ALWAYS take second place to money.
That being said, every MLB team should just be forced to give away their best player to LA or NY teams for free, and it would still be less ridiculous than this all continuing.
Competition breeds competition. Money does not.
So, like, $175M of it is deferred for 20 years to offset the tax penalty, right?