2026 MLB Season Thread

Dodgers have signed Greenland also, now there's officially nothing left for anyone to sign


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so supposedly Hal hires homeless people to clean Yankee Stadium after games for $60 bucks

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this guy is cutting corners to keep every penny. might as well give em some coffee to sober up and a fentanyl gift pack on the way out cause none of these bums around 161 are stackin their chips ....

and yes, i know this is an AI pic but i hate my team right now ...
 
masagipatron said:
NYC is not a desirable location. Weather sucks, taxes, crowded city. Add to that the Mets haven’t won a title in almost 40 years and aren’t consistently good. LA has the weather, money and recent titles. The only thing the Mets can offer is a lot of money.
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Steve Cohen is righting a lot of the Wilpon wrongs. But building an organizational culture players want to be a part of doesn’t happen overnight. The Dodgers ownership group has owned the team since 2012. They’ve been good pretty much every year but the championships didn’t happen overnight.

Cohen has done a good job showing that the Mets are a serious franchise after 2 decades of Wilpon penny pinching. When they become a serious championship contender the dynamic will change. They’ve been able to land big name players, just not at the success the Dodgers have.

There’s going to be players who don’t want to deal with the NY media, the constantly angry fanbase and the magnifying glass that comes with playing in NY. I get it, the LA media and fan outrage when they underachieve is minimal compared to NY. But they’ll still land players. Doesn’t always translate to championships immediately but I like what Cohen has done with the Mets. When they get all that stuff build by the ballpark it’s going to be a real cool atmosphere.
 
Watching people who religiously watch MLB, NFL and NBA argue for a salary floor and cap in baseball because it’s not fair as if the same 8-10 franchises are not perpetually **** year after year in NBA and NFL.

Let’s say that the floor is $150mil. Thats $5.7mil per player on a 26 man roster. If its based on 40 man it’ll be 3.75.

What it will do is:
****** small market teams will overpay their pretty good guys to prevent them from signing with bigger teams for less.
All Star Level Players by average will get their salaries capped. It won’t impact the Judge, Soto and Ohtani level guys as much.
Inflate the salaries of mediocre players, backups, back end pitchers and bullpen pitchers on short term deals to hit floors. Year after year the ****** teams will hand out weird 1-2 year **** deals. Or overpay on an Andrew Benintendi type. And still lose 85-100 games.
Or if they have a cost controlled superstar, just pay them immediately and hope it gets them good will after 7 years in Free Agency. It won’t if they’re not competitive.

The same 6 times will still be the same 6 teams in Free Agency and the other 5 teams that are truly participatory in getting players will still cycle based on owners motivation and how good their young guys are.

Dodgers draft well, scout well and trade well. Do they have advantages other teams don’t? Sure.
They spend a **** ton on front office and minor league infrastructure and it is built like an assembly line.
The Angels had Ohtani for 6 years and had a losing record every year. Some teams don’t and won’t try. And with a floor and cap it won’t magically make the Marlins or Pirates want to spend $250mil on a team. They’ll pay their $150mil and do so without much change in their infrastructure.
 
essential1 said:
Watching people who religiously watch MLB, NFL and NBA argue for a salary floor and cap in baseball because it’s not fair as if the same 8-10 franchises are not perpetually **** year after year in NBA and NFL.

Let’s say that the floor is $150mil. Thats $5.7mil per player on a 26 man roster. If its based on 40 man it’ll be 3.75.

What it will do is:
****** small market teams will overpay their pretty good guys to prevent them from signing with bigger teams for less.
All Star Level Players by average will get their salaries capped. It won’t impact the Judge, Soto and Ohtani level guys as much.
Inflate the salaries of mediocre players, backups, back end pitchers and bullpen pitchers on short term deals to hit floors. Year after year the ****** teams will hand out weird 1-2 year **** deals. Or overpay on an Andrew Benintendi type. And still lose 85-100 games.
Or if they have a cost controlled superstar, just pay them immediately and hope it gets them good will after 7 years in Free Agency. It won’t if they’re not competitive.

The same 6 times will still be the same 6 teams in Free Agency and the other 5 teams that are truly participatory in getting players will still cycle based on owners motivation and how good their young guys are.

Dodgers draft well, scout well and trade well. Do they have advantages other teams don’t? Sure.
They spend a **** ton on front office and minor league infrastructure and it is built like an assembly line.
The Angels had Ohtani for 6 years and had a losing record every year. Some teams don’t and won’t try. And with a floor and cap it won’t magically make the Marlins or Pirates want to spend $250mil on a team. They’ll pay their $150mil and do so without much change in their infrastructure.
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The salary cap is just the hot topic because of the deal.

Spending doesn't guarantee a world series.

Hell we were two outs away from losing to the blue Jays.

Signing Tucker doesn't guarantee anything. Everyone just wants to be fake mad and want engagement on the subject.
 
essential1 said:
Watching people who religiously watch MLB, NFL and NBA argue for a salary floor and cap in baseball because it’s not fair as if the same 8-10 franchises are not perpetually **** year after year in NBA and NFL.

Let’s say that the floor is $150mil. Thats $5.7mil per player on a 26 man roster. If its based on 40 man it’ll be 3.75.

What it will do is:
****** small market teams will overpay their pretty good guys to prevent them from signing with bigger teams for less.
All Star Level Players by average will get their salaries capped. It won’t impact the Judge, Soto and Ohtani level guys as much.
Inflate the salaries of mediocre players, backups, back end pitchers and bullpen pitchers on short term deals to hit floors. Year after year the ****** teams will hand out weird 1-2 year **** deals. Or overpay on an Andrew Benintendi type. And still lose 85-100 games.
Or if they have a cost controlled superstar, just pay them immediately and hope it gets them good will after 7 years in Free Agency. It won’t if they’re not competitive.

The same 6 times will still be the same 6 teams in Free Agency and the other 5 teams that are truly participatory in getting players will still cycle based on owners motivation and how good their young guys are.

Dodgers draft well, scout well and trade well. Do they have advantages other teams don’t? Sure.
They spend a **** ton on front office and minor league infrastructure and it is built like an assembly line.
The Angels had Ohtani for 6 years and had a losing record every year. Some teams don’t and won’t try. And with a floor and cap it won’t magically make the Marlins or Pirates want to spend $250mil on a team. They’ll pay their $150mil and do so without much change in their infrastructure.
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Well said. They need to get rid of the luxury tax too. Why should the Dodgers get penalized for doing what every team should be doing? Makes no sense.
 
Great move by the Mets getting Bichette. Yankees should have offered that deal and forgot about Bellinger. I’ll take Bichette over him. Good chance he opts out after a year if he has a huge year.
 
tupac003 said:
The salary cap is just the hot topic because of the deal.

Spending doesn't guarantee a world series.

Hell we were two outs away from losing to the blue Jays.

Signing Tucker doesn't guarantee anything. Everyone just wants to be fake mad and want engagement on the subject.
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I think where they could do something that benefits Franchises and Players. And take it from the NBA. Is Contract Length Structure.

But also give the players early freedom from their original team
-Year 1-3 is similar rookie pre-arbitration contract. (Teams can't screw around with a guy's eligibility. If you bring him up, for more than just filling in for 10-15 game stint because a guy is on the IL, then send him back down that's one thing. But if he's coming up to play everyday, that should count regardless of if you brought him up before or after May 15th. That's a ridiculous rule)
-Year 4 is a straight arbitration year
-Year 5 is an exclusive negotiation year for the original team. Player gets fair market value. For example Paul Skenes in 2028 would be getting paid $30-40mil. Extension could be a maximum of an additional 5 years.

If there is no extension. Which in a Skenes case there wouldn't be. Skenes hits the open market. Can get 5 years from a new team. 6 years from the Pirates. Maybe a 7th mutual option.
*If the Pirates trade him, the acquiring team does not get the original team advantage in Free Agency

That allows the superstars to likely enter the market as a coveted free agent 2, possibly 3 times in their career. Instead of once at age 30.

And also keeps Franchises from being ****heads and cowards because of contract lengths. While also keeping them honest about trying to win. Because you don't have a career length contract to say, well, I got the guy locked up for the next decade, I don't have to try anymore.


2. Another way is capping the percentage of deferred money. I don't want to get rid of it because it has always existed. But make teams pay 75-85% of the total contract now. And limit the amount of years they can defer money out.
If you give out a $100mil contract. Have to pay $75-85mil now. And that final $15-25mil has to be paid out before 5 years of the end of the deal. Prevents teams from loading up now, and then just tanking in the future because they have $150mil in deferred compensation 15 years from now.


I don't think a cap changes anything. But a floor should be necessary just for the benefit of the fans. If you're paying $80 mil in contracts, you are not seriously trying to win.
 
HIM said:
Well said. They need to get rid of the luxury tax too. Why should the Dodgers get penalized for doing what every team should be doing? Makes no sense.
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This I disagree with. I don't believe in a cap, but there needs to be some level of accountability.

Going both ways. For small markets and big markets. Make small markets give a damn. But also make big markets (which includes my team) have to have some level of restraint. Dodgers have too little, Yankees have too much. (Yes I would like the Yankees to operate like the Dodgers even if it was just based on how they handle prospects and developing them). Reason why Yankees are perennially a really good team, but not winning World Series is because Hal is a cheap bastard in the face of his accountability. (Fan accountability is also why he doesn't operate like the Orioles. Because they would likely kill him). Reason why Dodgers are taking advantage of everything they can legally do is because their owners are not cheap (I'll preface this by saying for now, because I can't predict the future).

Can't function a league without having some accountability for all sides. Because you can't make the Marlins or Pirates be accountable without making the Dodgers, Yankees, Mets accountable as well.
 
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tupac003 said:
Hell
Signing Tucker doesn't guarantee anything. Everyone just wants to be fake mad and want engagement on the subject.
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People should be glad their team didn’t give 60 mil to a guy who was barely better than Anthony volpe last year
 
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