π Published on: 2024-11-27 07:34:06
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Free-agent left-hander Blake Snell and the Los Angeles Dodgers have agreed to a five-year, $182 million contract, sources told ESPN on Tuesday night.
The deal, which is pending a physical, includes no opt-outs, some deferred money and a $52 million signing bonus, sources said.
Full story: https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/42634448/sources-dodgers-reach-deal-free-agent-blake-snell
For the Dodgers, Snell gives the World Series champions a frontline starter for their title defense next season after they survived October by depending heavily on their bullpen with just three healthy starters. For Snell, the pact marks a much quicker and satisfying conclusion to his second stint as a free agent.
The $182 million contract is the third largest for a left-handed pitcher in major league history based on total value, behind only David Price’s with the Boston Red Sox in 2015 ($217 million) and Clayton Kershaw’s with the Dodgers in 2014 ($215M).
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[Music] here’s Brody Brazil let’s first address the big baseball news and then eventually that’ll lead me to some bigger picture takeaways on this situation and how Major League Baseball might be forced to change because of it Blake Snell reportedly just signed a 5-year $182 million contract with the Los Angeles Dodgers that’s not officially been announced by the team yet but considering this photo is now on Snell’s Instagram you have to imagine that information is coming right around the corner Snell is that two-time sa Young Award winner he’s done it in both the American and National leagues he’s coming off an interesting last season with the Giants it didn’t start well in San Francisco multiple injuries in the first half but in the second half he was dominant he was back to form he threw a no hitter he had a sub2 erra a bunch of strikeouts that’s obviously why the Dodgers were interested and gave him this payday and now consider the Dodgers starting five or maybe even six in their rotation it’s going to be ruthless it’s going to be Untouchable so long as all those arms can stay healthy the Dodgers are a forced to be reckoned with and that’s just on the mound let alone they’re starting nine in the lineup and how about where the Dodgers are coming from in terms of 2024 didn’t they just win the World Series didn’t they just sign shoi Otani going into last season didn’t Otani just put up baseball’s first everever 5050 campaign and I know we’re talking about the Dodgers here as a talented group of players there’s no question the Freddy Freeman and on and on and mookie bets’s and on and on but think about the Dodgers right now as a business and that’s eventually going to be the point of this video how baseball might need to consider right now a salary cap and a salary floor for all of its teams save that thought we’ll get back to it in just a second more on the Dodgers I mean they’re printing money it’s another winter of Renovations at Dodgers Stadium they’re taking what earning and they’re putting it right back into their players and their product and you got to think being in a Major Market like Los Angeles with the viewership and the ticket sales and Dodger Stadium is huge and the revenues and players like Otani are bringing in revenues from overseas these are new untapped ways for ball clubs to make money like the Dodgers are doing you can’t be too upset at it like they didn’t break any rules to get to this point but now that they’re here and now that they’re spending so much more than anybody else I’ve always been for the players and I will explain that in a second but at this point are they and the other small handful of teams spending north of I don’t know $250 million a year are they kind of ruining baseball for the rest of the teams and actually enabling some of the smallest spending teams are they doing that with the the luxury tax and the revenue sharing are they damaging baseball by spending so much year after year anyway in terms of the Dodgers this is the craziest part it feels like they’re not even done like Snell is the first big ninef figure signing of this off season there’s going to be more nine fig contracts across Major League Baseball but you know what the Dodgers might even have another one up their sleeves and that’s going to eventually lead me to this salary cap and floor conversation and I know other teams right now in the National League West if you’re the Padres if you’re the Diamondbacks obviously if you’re the Giants Blake Snell was just on your team last season now you got to go up against this as a Dodger you notice I’m not even including the Rockies in that NLS conversation so Giants fans I feel you it’s not a great sentiment right now you probably feel cooked it’s going to be hard to go up against this Dodger team no matter who you are but especially San Francisco All Things Considered so let me now pivot and go back to the main issue here and why I wanted to make this video of course we can talk about Snell and the contract and how much it’s worth and how much the Dodgers are going to pay him but the bigger issue here is the question right now and it’s the consideration of a salary cap and a salary floor across Major League Baseball now I want to throw this in here I’ve always typically been against having a salary cap in professional sports and that’s because I see the players side of this I’m somebody who has largely worked under contract in broadcasting and I understand when you get into these negotiations the last thing you’d want is the company trying to acquire you trying to pay you be limited by some external figure or Source like in this case Major League Baseball you want to get fair market value and it’s not your fault if you want to be surrounded by the best of the best and they’re also getting paid I’ve always wanted winning to win out and I’ve wanted the players to get what their market value is if somebody’s willing to pay you that money that’s what your market value is but now we’ve arrived at such a time with the Dodgers kind of bending so many rules and spending so much money over a long sustained period of time that it kind of makes me wonder is this really actually good for the rest of teams in Major League Baseball like is it good for the middle 10 teams of payrolls in Major League Baseball and how about the bottom spending teams in baseball because the Dodgers are spending so much there is that luxury tax they’re basically only enabling those lowest spending teams to continue not spending money and receiving that Revenue sharing money coming in every single year because the Dodgers just did this and I don’t know why it’s here and now I mean the Yankees have spent a lot overtime the Mets have spent in fact the Mets spent the most in Major League Baseball last year $320 million the Padres went off the charts in terms of their payroll in recent times but it’s just something about the the Dodgers right now that’s getting me to these thoughts and maybe some of it is just the deferral of money I mean that caught Everybody by surprise last off season but you right now have some teams again like the Mets in Major League Baseball spending five times as much as the Oakland A’s did in 2024 the top 10 is mostly $20 and $300 million payroll teams the median is somewhere around 170 and then you’ve got a couple teams near the bottom spending 80 something million in the a spending 60s something million in 2024 I don’t know exactly how to implement a salary cap is it a hard cap that you can’t exceed is it a soft cap which has some room for still luxury tax but maybe that’s how you implement the salary floor every team has to spend a baseline amount of money or or you don’t get Revenue sharing unless you spend that Baseline amount of money and I’m not even saying here that the salary cap needs to be $200 million that would cut off the top 10 teams of payrolls last year you can put that salary cap up at $300 million you can put it at $32 million but at this point it needs to be established it doesn’t need to squish all the teams at the top but put it up at the high end of where teams are spending right now it just sets a brand new boundary so that teams don’t go even two steps crazier than where they are right now and exacerbate this problem of the halves and have knots and again that salary FL Flor does it exist to just make everybody spend a certain amount and make everybody seem like they’re trying uh or is it just existing so that the teams on Revenue sharing they only get that Revenue sharing money so long as they spend a certain amount to get to that that bottom threshold that salary floor I want to make sure this is clear I also don’t believe that money equates directly to winning like money puts you in a position to sustain winning and to be consistent in your winning a lot of times you can have a young team and you’re not paying them much but eventually if you want to keep that young team they come out of the arbitration years you got to pay you got to pay them you got to take care of them or you have to go out on the free agent market and spend money that way but to sustain your success you can have success for short bursts of time without spending money but if you don’t consistently spend a certain amount of money not even a large amount but a consistent amount of money you’re not going to consistently be a successful baseball team on the field money doesn’t guarantee you winning a World Series like the Dodgers just handled their business uh that’s not always how it works it just happened to go that way in 2024 but money sure does increase the odds right of a team like the Dodgers being in the playoffs and overcoming adversity and having all the right you know Tools in their in their bag to pull out in the right situations to get the job done and yeah it digs the holes deeper for some teams that they will never get to where the Dodgers just were in winning a World Series again I don’t think any of the players of Major League Baseball are going to suffer if there’s a brand new salary cap set close to $300 million let’s call it 270 right now to start with I still think that most players on most every single team are going to get paid their fair market value it’s just that teams like the Dodgers can’t go crazy they can’t bend the rules they can’t have a signing like this and Blake Snell goes somewhere else and the super stardom across baseball gets a little bit more spread out I’m not here to hate on the Dodgers I’m really not it just so happens to be that the way they’ve been operating and the moves they’ve been making and what they’re continuing to do and what I’m expecting them to do in the next handful of weeks and months before the 2025 season it’s just going to make it even more clear that right now baseball really needs to consider for its own good a salary cap and a salary floor so that the future of this game and the viability of all its teams can exist and it can be a successful competitive product for years and decades to come that’s the end of this video Thumbs Up Down Below because you made it here all the way to the final seconds also before this is over go down there hit that subscribe button so I can definitely see you back here next time
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