Jack Flaherty simply gained a World Collection with the Los Angeles Dodgers and he needs to make it clear that the crew’s spending spree just isn’t “ruining baseball,” as some have mentioned.
“A sure crew just isn’t ruining baseball,” he wrote on Tuesday through X. “Numerous different groups are simply doing little or no.”
Flaherty, who’s at present a free agent, doubled down on his take as followers flooded his mentions, together with one who agreed, saying any crew may have signed Kirby Yates, the Dodgers’ newest addition.
“One crew looks like they need the whole lot and like 27 groups are simply chilling till they will go to spring coaching,” the fan wrote, to which Flaherty replied “reality.”
When one other fan pushed again, suggesting Flaherty could be confirmed flawed in December 2026, when the present collective bargaining settlement expires, Flaherty fired again.
“You imply when the homeowners select to lock the gamers out after which in some way the gamers get blamed,” he wrote.
Whereas the lots proceed to complain, Houston Mitchell of the Los Angeles Occasions summed up the difficulty — and it is not with the Dodgers.
“The Dodgers additionally need to pay main monetary penalties every year as a result of they’re above the payroll threshold,” he wrote on Tuesday. “That cash will get redistributed to the opposite groups. And are you aware what a number of the homeowners of these small-market groups do with that money? Pocket it. They don’t use it to take a position and make their groups higher. Those that do make investments it, similar to Tampa Bay, normally discover themselves within the postseason typically.”
The Dodgers’ 2025 payroll will prime $375 million
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The Dodgers’ offseason spending spree has been one thing to behold. Along with bringing again Blake Treinen and Teoscar Hernandez, Los Angeles has additionally signed Japanese phenom Roki Sasaki, two-time Cy Younger winner Blake Snell, Michael Conforto, Tanner Scott and Hyeseong Kim.
On Tuesday, the Dodgers added much more to their bullpen by signing the two-time All-Star Yates.
And that is after an offseason that noticed the Dodgers signal Shohei Ohtani to a mammoth contract and Yoshinobu Yamamoto to a 12-year, $325 million pact.
Even earlier than the Yates deal, the Dodgers’ winter procuring ran their whole 2025 payroll to over $375 million, in keeping with ESPN’s Jeff Passan. Passan added that it is $70 million greater than the following highest-spending crew, the Philadelphia Phillies.
The offseason is not over, both. Flaherty continues to be on the board. So are Alex Bregman and Pete Alonso. Whereas it is not going the Dodgers would go for any of them — and so they actually have no evident holes on their roster — it would be silly to rely them out of something.