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That ws my assumption jnevel but I didn’t want to say so without getting input from others. I’m not saying that Rainiel is in Pablo Sandoval, Bartolo Colon, or Lance Lynn territory yet but I am saying that he might need to spend more time on the treadmill.
Scotty? I’ve always thought no one in this world could detest the cubbies more than myself…….until you came along. God love you for that!
Thanks Pugs! Ironically I have several friends who like the Cubs. It is safe to say that our friendship has been tested many times. I don’t have to bite my tounge so much on this board..lol
I fully admit that my knowledge of Rainiel Rodriguez consists of looking at stat sheets and watching video clips of him hitting home runs. That’s really about it. One thing I have noticed in his trots around the bases is that he can certainly fill out an uniform but it doesn’t appear to be all muscle.
I guess my question for those of you more informed is he really fit and agile enough to play the field or are we looking at another full time DH?
You know you’re having a bad season when the best thing about it is rooting for teams you don’t like to lose.
That has been pretty much my modus operandi the last five years. Rooting for the Cubs to lose gives me great joy.
They could go a few different ways. They could go with a Gorman/Jordan combo at 3B while using Urias, Torres, and Fermin at 2B.
Or they might let Gorman and Jordan on the field at the same time, at 2B and 3B respectively.
I would prefer they keep Gorman at 3B and away from 2B. But who is the backup SS?
Thanks jnevel. I agree that having the wealthy owners voluntarily give up their revenue is going to be difficult. Manfred has a tough sell on that one. Somehow the NFL was able to come up with a system like that. It doesn’t prevent the same teams winning every year (think Patriots and Chiefs) but at least it does give smaller markets like KC a chance to have a dynasty.
As a sidebar I am a Chiefs fan I can attest to the fact that sports fans do not like seeing the same teams win every year. Several of my friends gave me grief last year when the Chiefs didn’t make the playoffs. Chiefs fatigue was a real thing. I think the same thing applies to the Dodgers. Dodgers fatigue has swept the nation. People are tired of seeing then win all of the time which is why I think everyone is pouncing on salary cap mania and Mark Walter mania. Everyone wants to believe that there is a simple and nefarious reason for the Dodgers success. Perhaps they have been doing nefarious activities but I highly doubt that explains all of their success.
As for me, before I lose too much sleep on the Dodgers I am more concerned with the Brewers. They are ruining the NL Central with all of their built in and nefarious advantages. Perhaps Manfred and his CBA hacks can figure out a way to reign in the Brewers and give the rest of us in the NLC a break! 🙂
I’d like to see some additional revenue sharing or draft incentives to help even the playing field. That’s actually worse for the Cardinals, but probably better for baseball in general. I’m ok with floors and caps if they make sense, but not ok with implementing them and not addressing these other issues. Just implementing a cap would be wildly stupid.
I agree with most of this jnevel. I am in favor of strengthening the CBT. There should be a 100% tax rate for every dollar over the limit and it should apply to first time offenders. Second time offenders get a 125% tax, and third time gets 150%. A draft pick should be taken away for each year you over the limit starting with a first rounder. Those penalties would get the attention of the blue bloods.A salary floor should be implemented with the same penalties as the cap penalties.
I am fine with revenue sharing and tv sharing but only with a salary floor. Otherwise the cheapskate welfare teams will just pocket more free money and continue to whine about the Dodgers. If the small market owners don’t want to spend their revenue sharing allotment then they shouldn’t be owners.
Another interesting thing I have read over the years is that Steven Cohen wanted to model the Mets after the Dodgers. Why would we want to do that? It isn’t because he dreamed someday of having their level of money. He already has more money than them. The real answer is he knew that they also do many more things that led to their winning than having deep pockets. Of couse Cohen has failed thus far.
https://nypost.com/2021/11/28/steve-cohen-trying-to-replicate-dodgers-with-mets-moves/
Look, if Walter has committed fraud and done illegal acts I hope he gets busted. If that happens they will just be bought by another wealthy ownership group. LA is always going to have a lot of resources but to act like they are the only welathy team in MLB is naive and to act like they are the only problem MLB has while the other 29 teams are just miserly saints being picked on by the blue giants from Hollywood is fantasy.
Jnevel is correct in that the wealth gap in MLB has several teams feeding at the trough, not just one.
Last World Series Championship:
1. Dodgers- 2025
2. Red Sox – 2018
3. Cubs – 2016
4. Yankees – 2009
5. Blue Jays – 1993
6. Mets – 1986There are a few different behomths and gorillas in MLB but apparently only one of them is ruining baseball. It is the one doing the most winning. Not a coincidence.
A few years ago I made a comment on how well ran I thought the Dodgers were. The response I got was “well they haven’t won a World Series since 1988.”
Now that they have won three World Series since 2020 the response is ” They are only winning because of their money, they are ruining baseball, and anyone else with their wealth could do that.”
2026 Cash Payrolls Per Cot’s:
1. Mets – $347 Million
2. Dodgers – $337 Million
3. Yankees – $301 MillionCBT Payrolls Per Cots:
1. Dodgers – $430 Million
2. Mets – $362 Million
3. Yankees – $341 MillionLargest MLB Contract of All Time Per Cot’s:
Juan Soto (Mets) $765 Million
As I have mentioned there are many different ways to measure wealth.
Net Worth of MLB owners per betmgm:
1. Steve Cohen (Mets) – $22 Billion
2. Rogers Comminucations (Blue Jays) – $18.3 Billion
3. Mark Walter (Dodgers) – $13.3 BillionMLB Team Values per Forbes:
1. Yankees – $8.2 Billion
2. Dodgers – $6.8 Billion
3. Red Sox – $4.8 Billion
4. Cubs – $4.6 Billion
5. Giants – $4 Billion
6. Mets – $3. 2 BillionIt would not surprise me if he ends up selling the Dodgers since his other sports teams are on the block or have already been sold. It seems to me that these intra party transfers of funds are kind of like a ponzi scheme and now he has to come up with a lot of cash to undo the potentially illegal transfers.
Now, how this impacts the CBA I don’t know. I also don’t know if this really tells us anything about how and why the Dodgers have won three world series since 2020. They may have had a slush fund to use I don’t know but it still doesn’t explain the Mets because the Mets are just as big of a gorilla as the Dodgers yet the Mets are a laughingstock. That is an inconvenient truth to the crowd claiming that the Dodgers are ruining baseball.
I will maintain that the Dodgers could spend $1 Billion a year on payroll and no one would care if they weren’t winning. It is the constant winning that drives people crazy. If it was just money you would hear folks being apocalyptic about the Mets but instead it is crickets.
O’Brien had been really good the last couple of weeks. He just could not get the breaking ball over the plate and the Phillies made him make some mistakes. Tough loss against a red hot team.
Winn makes plays at SS that few in the league can make. Yes he needs to improve his bat but the Cards a better team with him on the field.
Eventually Blaze Jordan is going to have to take the training wheels off and try to improve his OPS. We don’t need a singles hitter at 3B. The reason we traded for him was his potential to do damage.
I don’t view the Cardinals as stuck in the middle. They were when Mo was here but not now. When Mo was here they were actually trying to win but couldn’t. This year they weren’t really trying that hard yet have still been able to field an average team on a much lower payroll while considerably beefing up the farm system. We are in a much stronger position than we were 2-3 years ago.
Yeah if the Brewers can win at least 3 of the 7 remaining with the Cubs they should be in good shape. If they win more than 3 it is pretty much over for the NLC title.
It is amazing how weak the AL is this year. It is quite probable that the final AL wild card spot will be a team with a losing record. That should be highly embarrassing for MLB. They keep expanding playoffs out of greed but to have a playoff team with a losing record should be considered shameful.
Yes I know the 2006 Cards got in with 83 wins but at least we won the division.
I think the catcher situation needs to be sorted out as well. Either Crooks or Bernal need to be traded. Herrera should be DH/1B. He could spell Burly against certain lefties. I don’t have a strong opinion on Raniel at 3B. It doesn’t hurt to try but I am not a fan of sacrificing defense for offense. I just hope Rainiel doesn’t continue the recent Cardinal trend of catchers who had to be moved off of the position (Contreras, Herrera). It is fair to say that we all got spoiled by Yadi.
I am surprised there hasn’t been more chatter about this. What do you guys think about Rainiel getting time at 3B? Obviously the big league club needs stability at that position but can he do it?
I will be doing my usual Friday night fare of Organic Cheese Pizza, Little Debbie Brownie, and Diet Mountain Dew.
The Cards have won five series in a row. Might as well make it six. I like how we play on the road. For some reason there seems to be a more sense of urgency than at Busch.
FWIW – Ohtani is only making 2M$ a year for now. In 2033 he starts getting 68M$ a year for the next 10 years for a total of 680M$
during those 10 years. That might make it stressful for the Dodgers to stay under a hard ceiling.The current CBT system doesn’t really work that way. There are two separate payrolls. The cash payroll and the CBT payroll. The CBT payroll determines the tax. The Dodgers are being charged $46M per year for Ohtani on the CBT payroll. The number is $46M instead of $70M because of the deferrals so when it comes time for Ohtani to actually receive his deferred salary a decade from now there will be no charge on the CBT books.