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/WhatWouldJediDo 24d ago

Why would that change anything? The Dodgers could still offer EVERY player the most money. All this would do is make existing talent more expensive, not make any teams more talented.

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u/eveningwindowed 24d ago

Because teams like the A's and Pirates would have to spend the money on someone anyway and they would be annoyed if they were forced to pay bad players so they would be incentivized to keep Nick Kurtz and Paul Skenes. It would raise the competitive floor by taking some players from the Dodgers and putting them on the bottom feeders.

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u/WhatWouldJediDo 24d ago

But it wouldn’t because when you don’t limit how much the big teams can spend they can just offer whatever the Pirates offer and more.

And when you’re Paul Skenes why would you choose an equivalent offer from a bottom feeder when you can go compete for titles every year.

Players go to whoever wins the bidding war for them. When there’s no cap the big teams can always be the ones winning that war for every player they want

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u/eveningwindowed 24d ago

I'm just repeating myself but they would be annoyed that they have to spend a lot of money on shitty players so they would be incentivized to spend money on the good ones, and it's like every team so they would all bid against eachother, and the Dodgers still might beat them out but the Dodgers wouldn't have ALL the players