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ScotchMIrish wrote: ↑15 Oct 2025 20:57 pm

icon wrote: ↑15 Oct 2025 20:37 pm

ramfandan wrote: ↑15 Oct 2025 20:13 pm

Carp4Cy wrote: ↑15 Oct 2025 18:40 pm

ScotchMIrish wrote: ↑15 Oct 2025 11:59 am The league needs a serious salary cap even if it means a year of no baseball. Small and mid market teams need to band together and hold the line.

I do give the Dodgers credit for managing their money better than the other mega market teams.

How does a year of no baseball achieve a salary cap?

So what will the owners offer the players as inducement to agree to some partial salary cap. I never hear any ideas on what the owners would offer the players to get a cap

what haver you heard or read ? OR what would you propose ?

Other salary caps in other sports require owners to open their books and split revenue with players by percentage. Some people (A female canine animal, especially a dog) about players' refusal to agree to a salary cap -- but have no problem with owners' refusal to open their books.

Salary cap is about leveling the playing field so small and medium market teams can compete and perhaps fans can afford a ticket to a baseball game. Nothing to do with owners opening their books.

You didn't get what I was saying. Salary caps in the NBA and NFL require the owners to open their books so players can be guaranteed the share of revenue they bargained for. The two are linked. The MLBPA would never agree to a salary cap -- if they would ever agree at all -- without a similar revenue guarantee for players, and that requires owners to open their books.

Carp4Cy wrote: ↑15 Oct 2025 21:18 pm

ScotchMIrish wrote: ↑15 Oct 2025 20:29 pm

Carp4Cy wrote: ↑15 Oct 2025 18:40 pm

ScotchMIrish wrote: ↑15 Oct 2025 11:59 am The league needs a serious salary cap even if it means a year of no baseball. Small and mid market teams need to band together and hold the line.

I do give the Dodgers credit for managing their money better than the other mega market teams.

How does a year of no baseball achieve a salary cap?

Player's union will oppose it.

Wouldn't they still oppose it after no baseball? Wouldn't the owners lose money faster than the players with no baseball?

The reason that has worked in every other sport is the owners are already very rich. Players have a limited time to make money.

icon wrote: ↑15 Oct 2025 21:34 pm

ScotchMIrish wrote: ↑15 Oct 2025 20:57 pm

icon wrote: ↑15 Oct 2025 20:37 pm

ramfandan wrote: ↑15 Oct 2025 20:13 pm

Carp4Cy wrote: ↑15 Oct 2025 18:40 pm

ScotchMIrish wrote: ↑15 Oct 2025 11:59 am The league needs a serious salary cap even if it means a year of no baseball. Small and mid market teams need to band together and hold the line.

I do give the Dodgers credit for managing their money better than the other mega market teams.

How does a year of no baseball achieve a salary cap?

So what will the owners offer the players as inducement to agree to some partial salary cap. I never hear any ideas on what the owners would offer the players to get a cap

what haver you heard or read ? OR what would you propose ?

Other salary caps in other sports require owners to open their books and split revenue with players by percentage. Some people (A female canine animal, especially a dog) about players' refusal to agree to a salary cap -- but have no problem with owners' refusal to open their books.

Salary cap is about leveling the playing field so small and medium market teams can compete and perhaps fans can afford a ticket to a baseball game. Nothing to do with owners opening their books.

You didn't get what I was saying. Salary caps in the NBA and NFL require the owners to open their books so players can be guaranteed the share of revenue they bargained for. The two are linked. The MLBPA would never agree to a salary cap -- if they would ever agree at all -- without a similar revenue guarantee for players, and that requires owners to open their books.

MLB contracts are all guaranteed. The MLBPA will agree because the players have no income without baseball.

Brewers bats are getting better!

Game 1: Brewers get 1 run on 2 hits
Game 2: Brewers get 1 run on 3 hits
Game 3: Brewers get 1 run on 4 hits

Lack of money causing Dodger opponents to use pitchers who make atrocious fielding errors.

cardstatman wrote: ↑16 Oct 2025 20:23 pm Brewers bats are getting better!

Game 1: Brewers get 1 run on 2 hits
Game 2: Brewers get 1 run on 3 hits
Game 3: Brewers get 1 run on 4 hits

Maybe the Brewers strike for 2 runs on 5 hits tomorrow?

Looks like the Dodgers might win back to back. Hard to beat that pitching.

cardstatman wrote: ↑16 Oct 2025 20:23 pm Brewers bats are getting better!

Game 1: Brewers get 1 run on 2 hits
Game 2: Brewers get 1 run on 3 hits
Game 3: Brewers get 1 run on 4 hits

I feel sorry for the Brews. They had an outstanding year and I was hoping they would win a couple of games to make things interesting. But I fully expect Ohtani to shut them down and close it out tomorrow. A healthy Snell has really solidified the Dodger rotation.

cardiological wrote: ↑16 Oct 2025 21:09 pm

cardstatman wrote: ↑16 Oct 2025 20:23 pm Brewers bats are getting better!

Game 1: Brewers get 1 run on 2 hits
Game 2: Brewers get 1 run on 3 hits
Game 3: Brewers get 1 run on 4 hits

I feel sorry for the Brews. They had an outstanding year and I was hoping they would win a couple of games to make things interesting. But I fully expect Ohtani to shut them down and close it out tomorrow. A healthy Snell has really solidified the Dodger rotation.

F them brewers

Alex Reyes Cy Young wrote: ↑15 Oct 2025 21:03 pm

The Nard wrote: ↑15 Oct 2025 18:33 pm Dodger pitching was impacted by injuries during the season. Now they’ve returned, starting in September. That makes the Dodgers the favorites to go all the way

Totally agree. Best thing that could have happened is the early injuries. Snell had 11 starts to get prepped for the playoffs. Dumb luck or masterful design?

I think design and unlimited cash.

CCard wrote: ↑16 Oct 2025 20:38 pm Looks like the Dodgers might win back to back. Hard to beat that pitching.

They might but Dodgers may need more offense to beat AL winner.
The Dodgers offense has only scored 10 runs in 3 games.
That has been overlooked in the hoopla of their pitching performance. They may need to score better vs the AL opponent.

people ain't gonna like it, but LA is gonna win the whole thing

I'm hoping for an LA/Toronto series!

It’s a good thing that the Dodgers farm system produced all of that starting pitching. Ohtani/Yamamoto were international signings. Snell was a FA. Those three only cost the Dodgers money. Lucrative deals but just money. Only Glasnow was acquired through trade. He cost the Dodgers Pepiot. What the Dodgers have produced are guys like Pepiot, Buehler, May, Sheehan etc which probably just isn’t good enough.

Even the offensive side is heavy on the outside the organization guys. Ohtani IFA, Betts trade, Freeman trade, Teoscar FA, Edman trade. Not knocking the Dodgers farm system but the Dodgers major players are from outside the organization. For as high as the Dodgers farm system is constantly rated, the major players didn’t come from there.

the Sho!

ramfandan wrote: ↑17 Oct 2025 08:56 am

CCard wrote: ↑16 Oct 2025 20:38 pm Looks like the Dodgers might win back to back. Hard to beat that pitching.

They might but Dodgers may need more offense to beat AL winner.
The Dodgers offense has only scored 10 runs in 3 games.
That has been overlooked in the hoopla of their pitching performance. They may need to score better vs the AL opponent.

The way they're playing who could bet against them? They are stepping it up when they need to. Ohtani is ridiculous.