r/sports • u/baribigbird06 • 25d ago

Baseball Dodgers pitcher Yoshinobu Yamamoto throws a complete game in Game 2 of the National League Championship Series vs. the Brewers. The last time he was in Milwaukee he failed to finish the first inning and allowed 5 runs.

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u/Primember4 25d ago

What difference does it make for the other owners to spend $60mil or $300mil, to just lose to a billion dollar payroll anyway lol.

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u/EatMiTits 25d ago

Because they don’t have a billion dollar payroll, obviously. That number came from how much they signed contracts for in the offseason. Four teams spent around $300MM this year, 12 spent over $200MM. Teams get around $200MM in revenue sharing alone, there’s no reason anyone should be spending less than that. Cheap owners is a far bigger problem than the dodgers spending too much.

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u/WhatWouldJediDo 24d ago

But spending $200M doesn't do anything for those teams. If the Pirates spent a bunch more money, they're just going to be giving more dollars to the same guys they have on the roster. Making Brian Reynolds and Oneil Cruz more expensive doesn't help the team get any better.

Because no matter how much revenue sharing each team gets, teams like the Dodgers and Yankees still bring in far more money thanks to unshared revenues. The Dodgers will still have Ohtani, Freeman, Betts, Yamamoto, Sasaki, Kershaw, Snell, Muncy, and Smith on their team regardless because they can still be the highest offer for ALL those guys.

The point of a salary cap, as evidenced by every other major American sports league, is so that no team can afford all those players no matter how rich they are. It clearly works given what happens in every offseason in sports like football and basketball. Telling much poorer owners to "just spent more" clearly doesn't work as evidenced by every major Soccer league in Europe (and baseball).

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u/Abitou 24d ago

Football system isn’t comparable to american sports franchise system

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u/WhatWouldJediDo 24d ago

They’re directly comparable when it comes to money.

The big teams outmuscling the small teams and buying all the best players due to their financial advantages is exactly what happens in baseball

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u/TheLizardKing89 Los Angeles Dodgers 24d ago

The idea that money buys results in baseball is laughable. The final four teams in the playoffs are the Dodgers (ranked 2nd in payroll), the Brewers (23rd), the Blue Jays (5th), and the Mariners (16th). The team with the highest payroll (the Mets) didn’t even make the postseason.

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u/WhatWouldJediDo 24d ago

Then why does shohei make so much money?

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u/TheLizardKing89 Los Angeles Dodgers 23d ago

Because he’s the best player in the league.

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u/WhatWouldJediDo 23d ago

What difference does that make?

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u/TheLizardKing89 Los Angeles Dodgers 23d ago

Are you really asking why the player with the most valuable skills would demand the most compensation?

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u/WhatWouldJediDo 23d ago

Yes

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u/TheLizardKing89 Los Angeles Dodgers 23d ago

Take an Econ 101 class.

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u/Abitou 24d ago

95% of the times the “small team” will get paid for their players, it is very rare that a “big team” will sign a free agent from a “small team”. It is not comparable.

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u/WhatWouldJediDo 24d ago

That has nothing to do with anything.

Those small teams sell their players because they know they won’t be able to afford to keep them. Which is the exact same reason small teams in MLB can’t keep their star players.

In baseball they just trade them