The Dodgers are busy already buying their next title. Added Blake Snell to their rotation. Why don't they just buy up all the players and lock up the World Series early?
Baseball was once my favorite sport to play and watch. I grew up from little league through high school behind the plate. Loved going to Brewers' games even when I was too little to understand how bad they were. Then 1982 came along and it was just one game and a few injuries short of magic. Today, I think I'm done with the game. Most of the teams are just farm teams for the big market teams that have no budgets. Small market teams have to strike gold with the rookie contract before the big market teams sign them away when the young guys start to flourish. The other strategy is to take a huge risk on a long term contract with a young phenom and pray they don't get hurt or hit an early wall (the Churio strategy). Missing with this approach can be devastating to small market teams. LA ,NY, etc. just write it off and move on.
You know Soto will end up on one of about 5 teams. If baseball is to survive let alone thrive, there has to be some mechanism for parity. As much as some don't like a salary cap in the NFL, I do think it helps level the field and baseball needs a similar strategy. The players' union will fight it , but if better balance isn't brought to the game younger people will flee the game in about 2/3 of MLB markets and the sport becomes non-viable. Then everyone loses.
