
The other owners also hold a lot of blame for this though. Why isn’t Mookie on the Red Sox? Becuase their ownership didn’t want to pay. Why isn’t Freddie a Brave? (Well that’s a whole thing not really the Braves fault, but you get the idea). Why isn’t Ohtani an Angel? They wouldn’t pay him the Dodgers contract (he said he’d stay if they matched it) Why isn’t Tucker an Astro? They didn’t want to pay him. If the teams pay their stars, it keeps them off the Dodgers