Are the Dodgers Ruining Baseball?

[Tanko]

Deferred salaries are allowing them to mock the salary cap.
They now have over $1B in deferred money.

I foresee MLB adjusting their cap process.

Billion-dollar future: Dodgers deferred pay at $1B

New contracts for Blake Snell and Tommy Edman increased the Dodgers' obligations for deferred payments to more than $1 billion owed to seven players from 2028 to 2046.

www.espn.com

 

[phillyflyers]

It's slimy for sure but smart on their part.

It's for sure going to bite them in the ass when it comes time to pay up, though.

 

[Archie]

it sucks

 

[Tanko]

I think the rules require that they show they have the money set-aside or at least can show they have enough set aside such that it will "grow" and cover the future payments. But, IMO this is funny money and bending the salary cap rules to the limits.

 

[BMR Genie]

Lots of Bobby Bonilla in the future.

 

[Jrgum3]

The Dodgers don't care they are within the rules so they're going to spend because they got it. I'm not sure they're ruining baseball but it does make it easy to hate the Dodgers because they get whoever they want while other teams can't spend that kind of money.

 

[dadofaurora]

It's slimy for sure but smart on their part.

It's for sure going to bite them in the ass when it comes time to pay up, though.

It would, if contracts were denominated in real currency (bitcoin). Since it's in dollars, they're getting a really good deal. Minimum salary will be $100/hour by 20246. Los Angeles real estate will cost 5x-10x by 2046 in dollars compared to 2024.

Simple math.

 

[Archie]

It’s just how you account for it,” Dodgers president of baseball operations Andrew Friedman said Tuesday at a news conference to introduce Snell. “You have to fund a lot of it right now, and having that money go to work for you, we have — a lot of our ownership group are from financial background and can have that money going to work right now, and just making it — not something that sneaks up on us. We’re not going to wake up in 2035 and (say): ‘Oh my God, that’s right. We have this money due.’ We’ll plan for it along the way.”

 

[jjgold]

I don’t know how the Dodgers lose next year

 

[BMR Genie]

I don’t know how the Dodgers lose next year

Only by injury.

 

[phillyflyers]

Ohtani bet on baseball and blamed his interpreter.

Baseball covered it up.

 

[sharpsquare]

Deferred salaries are allowing them to mock the salary cap.
They now have over $1B in deferred money.

I foresee MLB adjusting their cap process.

Billion-dollar future: Dodgers deferred pay at $1B

New contracts for Blake Snell and Tommy Edman increased the Dodgers' obligations for deferred payments to more than $1 billion owed to seven players from 2028 to 2046.

www.espn.com

yeah would think this ends up being a topic when for next round of CBA negotiations

 

[sharpsquare]

Only by injury.

exactly

 

[kidcudi92]

I could go deeper into it, but short answer

100% Yes

 

[BigJay]

Lots of Bobby Bonilla in the future.

 

[Tanko]

Lots of Bobby Bonilla in the future.

For the Dodgers there will be Bobby Bonilla days 5-6X per year for eternity.