[Gonzalez] “Yes, it’d be absurd of [the Dodgers] to follow a billion-dollar offseason with a $600M contract [for Juan Soto]. But Shohei Ohtani’s first year in LA blew away all their financial projections. And they need an OF.”

44 comments

1. Did Teoscar Hernandez die?

2. Bravely answering the question: “*What if we could make major league baseball more like the French league in soccer?”*

3. it’s fun to play OOTP in commissioner mode

4. Juan “Kevin Durant” Soto

5. Theirs a difference between need and want…we know how this turns out they’ll get Soto and then next offseason the next latest and greatest player will be available and they’ll “need” him too it’s a never ending cycle

6. I don’t understand why the Dodgers would need an Only Fans account.

7. My prediction is the only new face will be Sasaki while bringing back Teoscar, Kike and Treinen. All indications for years would be that Soto is going to the highest bidder and the Dodgers won’t be close to that, but it would be malpractice to not have the meeting with Soto and Boras in LA.

8. Can we have Teo and a pitcher instead? Let the Mets have this one

9. Alex Verdugo is available for cheap if they want a former Yankees outfielder

10. Ohtani is a two-way player and brings with him enormous commercial appeal in Japan. Soto, as good as he is, doesn’t command that kind of marketability.

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12. I will become The Riddler

13. Soto is a bad fielder.

14. Boras keep working that PR arm!!!

15. Ohtani is underpaid relative to his value, which enables the Dodgers to continue spending…

16. Not happening

17. They don’t need an OF that costs as much as Soto. They can get Teo and what they actually need, pitching that can survive a season so they aren’t throwing bullpen games throughout the playoffs

18. They’re not really paying Ohtani anything rn and they’re making 9 figures off him they weren’t making before. So I don’t see what’s stopping them from paying Soto.

    Ohtani is the best ROI of any signing in the history of sports.

    They have 100 million new fans now in probably the number one country in the world to have a big time celebrity sponsor in and he’s the biggest name there is in Japan possibly ever.

    We probably quadrupled our fan base with the Ohtani signing.

19. This post title has real “Should I Move” vibes from the lonely island

20. Bro, im not subscribing to that OF, it will be too high and good content will probably be behind another paywall. Look at sportsnetla, great content with the backstage stuff, but damn we can only watch it if you pay extra for that tier

21. Get fucked. If the dodgers sign Soto, then this league is fraud.

22. How about no…

23. What’s more valuable for OF?

    Shohei Ohtani 2 way ability 

    Juan Soto Shuffle vids 

24. Soto out, Trout in?

25. I hope they do. Break the system. Make the cheap owners look worse.

26. The Dodgers bringing Soto in and letting Teoscar and Kike go doesn’t feel like the right move.

27. I’m telling you, the Dodgers should just buy every MLB team. You can’t lose that way.

28. Why the fuck do Dodgers fans not want to add the best hitter in baseball? They should be over the moon at the idea. Teoscar might be a sentimental pick but Soto is much, much better, and younger. Besides, it’s not like the dodgers can’t sign both.

29. Well, if the reports are true that Soto wants to be the man on a team, I don’t think he’s going to go to the dodgers unless they blow away everyone else’s offers

30. Believe me I WILL do it this time

31. So which 6m a year bat you think the Mariners will pick up this year to bolster their offense?

32. I’m sorry, Soto is great, but he’s not 600M great. You could have an entire outfield full of All Stars fro 600M.

33. An OF?

    I’d pay $99.99/month to see Ohtani nude

34. In 3 years Soto will unplayable in the field and then they’d have two $500mm+ contracts for guys who can’t play the field. They’re not signing him

35. If this happens, I think it proves that MLB needs a salary cap and a salary floor. No one wants to watch one team pay all the best players and dominate just like no one wants to watch one team sell everyone and field a AAA team.

36. It’s funny that most Americans hate communism except in sports, and especially baseball, where they beg for it.

37. I could honestly see Soto taking a Dodgers offer of like 3/180, he would get a huge AAV, likely win a couple more championships, and still be able to become a free agent before his 30th birthday.

38. While it would certainly bring in lots of money, I really doubt the Dodgers organization *needs* an onlyfans

39. It’s not the dodgers FOs responsibility to keep baseball competitive.  But the sport will lose at least 2 fans if Soto signs with them.  

40. If they can afford him, sure. But the last thing I’d want is for the dodgers to go to the brink of unprofitability to sign just one player. That’s how you end up in a dark age.

41. This is good for the game I’m sure

42. Call me crazy but I’d rather sign Teoscar for 3 years 60 mil

43. I mean, Ohtani made them something obscene like 80 millions dollars of *PROFIT* this year. That’s effectively going to pay for 3 years of his salary by the time we’re done, and that doesn’t include the season he already played.

    I really don’t think people understand just how utterly league breaking Ohtani’s contract is. This is a guy that will generate 2 elite players worth of profit a season, while paying for his own contract as well. Or the team can choose to pocket the better part of a billion dollars over the next decade. I don’t know if we’ll ever see another contract that lets a baseball team dominate the way Ohtani’s is going to let the Dodgers dominate

44. At this point, do it. Sign him. Load up the most ridiculous team the world has ever seen.