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Originally Posted by LoneWolf
You're one of my favorite posters on CP, so please don't take this question as me being my normally snarky, asshole self, but if the Dodgers have such a great farm system why do they need to go out and spend a billion dollars on free agents?
When fans of small market teams make statements like "the Dodgers exemplify everything that is wrong with baseball," they mean that for a small market team every decision has to be perfect for that team to succeed. Every free agent acquisition has to work both on the field and financially, every high draft pick has to pan out, and all contract decisions have to be both viable on the field and on the ledger. Teams like the Dodgers, Yankees, Red Sox, etc...can literally **** it up and then buy their way out of their bad decisions. I'm not saying the Dodgers aren't a well run organization or that they have recently made a bunch of bad decisions, I'm just saying their margin for error is huge.
Baseball will never surpass or even come close to football in popularity again. The fact that 80% of the league knows going into the season they have zero shot at making the playoffs and that whenever a big time free agent hits the market only about 5-6 teams have a legitimate shot at signing said player is a major contributing factor to fan interest.
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Well I said good and not great.
And I get it. I'm sure if I was a fan of one of those small market teams, I would be just as pissed off at a system that doesn't give everyone equal footing.
In my mind, I've seen one championship that I can remember and that one will always have an asterix next to it. It will always be called out as a fraud.
I'm just not seeing the disdain for these moves like other people are. Ohtani and Yamamoto both wanted to be Dodgers and Ohtani deferred money so that he wasn't stuck in another Angels situation. What have we done the past years? Betts and Freeman? We didn't pay an absurd amount to Trea Turner to stay. We didn't pay that to Seager...even though we should have. We didn't do it to Scherzer.