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True Dough

(20,603 posts)
Wed Nov 27, 2024, 08:29 AM Nov 27

The rich get richer: Dodgers add Blake Snell to starting rotation

So LA goes into next season with these starters:

Blake Snell

Shohei Ohtani

Yoshimoto Yamamoto

Tyler Glasnow

Those Dodgers did okay for themselves last season even without Snell (5-3, 3.12 ERA/1.05 WHIP with the Giants last season). He does come with some injury history, so we'll see if he can stay healthy in 2025.


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The rich get richer: Dodgers add Blake Snell to starting rotation (Original Post) True Dough Nov 27 OP
Duck the Fodgers. The MLB needs some type of salary cap. chicoescuela Nov 27 #1
Agreed! True Dough Nov 27 #2
very good correlation chicoescuela Nov 27 #3
Two of the Doogies' biggest names have big risks. ificandream Dec 1 #4
I'd Have Considered The Risk Too High ProfessorGAC Dec 1 #5
A few teams will The Madcap Dec 2 #6
The filthy rich Dodgers True Dough Dec 3 #7

chicoescuela

(1,609 posts)
1. Duck the Fodgers. The MLB needs some type of salary cap.
Wed Nov 27, 2024, 09:19 AM
Nov 27

The fan base of 75% of the teams are going to give up before the season starts.

True Dough

(20,603 posts)
2. Agreed!
Wed Nov 27, 2024, 10:45 AM
Nov 27

It's getting well out of hand. The gap between the "haves" and the "have not" franchises is reflective of the American experience: the billionaires are raking in more and more while the everyday American citizen makes do with less and less.

ificandream

(10,610 posts)
4. Two of the Doogies' biggest names have big risks.
Sun Dec 1, 2024, 02:51 PM
Dec 1

Shohei's coming off surgery and Snell is prone to slow starts. (He had a dreadful start last year. Beginning to wonder if that was all a fake to get a better contract for 2025.)

ProfessorGAC

(70,303 posts)
5. I'd Have Considered The Risk Too High
Sun Dec 1, 2024, 06:42 PM
Dec 1

He's only pitched over 18 decisions twice in 9 years.
He's only had an ERA under 3, twice.
He's only had a WAR over 2.2, twice.
He's only pitched over 130 innings, twice.
His career strikeout/walk ratio is well under 3.
He does have a 1.2 strikeouts per inning for his career, and that's pretty good
But, even with his his one super season & tye current economics of baseball, $36 million per year seems a less than prudent financial commitment.

The Madcap

(513 posts)
6. A few teams will
Mon Dec 2, 2024, 07:52 PM
Dec 2

have to fold before any of this ever gets addressed. Oakland (sorry...Sacramento...no, Vegas), Tampa Bay, Miami, and the White Sox look like good bets to shut it down in the next few years if this continues. They cannot be competitive when the payrolls they can afford won't even buy a AA-quality team.

But Manfred would love having a Yankees-Dodgers WS every single year.

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