What the Massive Juan Soto Signing Means for Atlanta Braves and MLB

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1. Just here to say my least favorite player in baseball just became my least favorite player even more. $765 million more. Cannot stand watching him play.

2. Braves media and Podcaster think sun shines on aa butt braves won't make playoffs

3. I’m of the opinion that the Juan Soto deal has everything to do with Steve Cohen and not Juan Soto. Nobody is worth 765 million but Mr. Cohen wanted to do it.

4. To be totally honest, I think the Yankees won this deal. Now they have more flexibility to add complementary players to the team. They can add Max Fried now. They can do so much with at money.

5. Soto is in the elite of the elite as far as offensive players are. But this is still a massive overpay by the Mets

6. What about Walker Bueller for the Braves?

7. What about Walker Bueller for the Braves?

8. 100% there's going to be a major push for a salary cap at the next CBA negotiation. I can't say it's definitely going to get passed but it's going to be a major point of contention. The Dodgers have now created a roster with a payroll exceeding the revenue of 14 out of 30 teams and we have a paradigm where 3 teams have complete ownership of the top of the free agent market because the other 27 teams simply cannot afford to compete. If you look at team revenue the Yankees and dodgers are like $100 million to $200 million above the Braves who themselves are a top 5 team by revenue let alone the Reds or Royals or Rays, and the Mets are playing by entirely different rules because the other 29 teams are businesses that have to make money and the Mets are a billionaire's toy that can lose half a billion dollars a year and it's fine.
   I don't think we're at a point where other teams can't compete yet but if things continue like this within a decade we will see a 3 team league where the Dodgers, Yankees and Mets compete for the 78 best players and the other 27 teams fight for whatever they don't want. You can't have a league like that.
   The only way they can get away with continuing to have no salary cap like this is if you make exceeding the tax threshold a MAJOR competitive detriment. Like they don't get any picks in the draft until everyone else has drafted all their picks, or they are always the away team in the post season or something because simply charging $50 million extra to a team that's already paying $50 million for a single player just isn't a sufficient penalty to encourage them to maintain balance.
   They need to do something incredibly drastic like that, or they just need to have a salary cap and a salary floor and give everyone 3 years to come into compliance. They need to set the cap around where the third luxury tax threshold is now and they need to have a floor that's like 35% of the cap.

9. So are all hopes of max coming back,,,…. abandoned? After the way the market played out? I saw him going to LA. Can the dodgers still sign max?

10. Meanwhile AA doing what AA does, absolutely nothing. This guy is so afraid to pull the god damn trigger on ANYTHING, i've had enough of him.

11. What’s your logic on not wanting a salary cap? It seems to work in other leagues and it could help get more teams involved in top free agents.

12. These salaries are pricing normal people out of attending games. Single people will be able to go, but when you have a family, you can’t afford 4 to 5 tickets and the other costs of attending games(food, souvenirs etc.). These leagues should think about that. If kids aren’t going and getting interested in the sport, there will be no players in the future.

13. I agree Jake. I still see the Braves shutting them down when it comes down to it.
    With Soto there our pitching takes priority even more

14. That just threw pay scale out of wack. I'm just not that impressed with soto.

15. When do the Dodgers start paying for all of the monopoly money that they keep spending?

16. I miss the Braves hat 😢