MLB on Sidechat | Every owner is worth a BILLION dollars and we out here complaining about the one team willing to go balls to the wall. This is not a problem with the dodgers, it’s a problem with everyone else being cheap

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MLB 3w

Every owner is worth a BILLION dollars and we out here complaining about the one team willing to go balls to the wall. This is not a problem with the dodgers, it’s a problem with everyone else being cheap

Anonymous 3w

i mean, its impossible to get an exact number for people’s net worth but several owner’s estimates are not even close from what im reading. Reds, Marlins, and Rockies estimates are all well below a billion. several teams like the Dbacks, Pirates, Royals, and Rays are barely above a billion. also many teams just dont have revenue even close to the dodgers so that has to be taken into account. the first three teams i mentioned could not even afford Shohei on his own.

Anonymous 3w

The Dodgers owners are the owners of a massive investment firm, and what they can do is ask their players to defer their contracts, invest the money that was deferred, and make the value of the contract up before the player is owed that deferred money. Not only are the Dodgers rich as hell, they have the means to basically make the cost of any contract dissapear. It really is not fair, and you cannot pretend that a small market team has the ability to dish out contracts like LA can.

Anonymous 3w

including deferred money, the dodgers salary is 2.2b. about 1/3 of the league owner’s have a net worth below this number

Anonymous 3w

Oh my god idk if we don’t have enough billionaires for 120 teams in the USA

Anonymous

#1 3w

the big problem here is that the Dodgers, Mets, and Blue Jays are just so rich that they genuinely dont care about the money anymore. baseball is a business, and u cant just throw away money and expect to stay rich without any returns. that statement goes for most teams, but the ones i just mentioned are so rich that they actually ignore that statement.

Anonymous

#1 3w

in fact, the tax that owners have to pay when they go over 230m in payroll (which is a sign that mlb admits this is a problem) is literally called the “Steve Cohen Tax.”

Anonymous

#1 3w

Then they shouldn’t own baseball teams🤷🏽‍♂️

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Anonymous

OP 3w

Oh you’re so right! Let’s just go find an even richer billionaire! Those just grow on trees now, don’t they?

Anonymous

#2 3w

I thought #1 established that 1/3 weren’t. But it’s all good bro be happy with your mediocre owners

Anonymous

OP 3w

You say this shit as if they can just spawn billions of dollars. There aren’t very many people on the planet with that much money

Anonymous

#2 3w

There are a lot more than 30 and last I checked the mlb has 30 teams

Anonymous

OP 3w

And a ton of them own teams from other sports (there’s 94 other teams between the NFL, NBA, and NHL) and a good chunk of them don’t care about owning a team. Again, not every team can have an owner than can pay what Mark Walter can. A team from Cincinnati is never going to be generating the revenue that a team from LA will

Anonymous

#2 3w

A lot of the current owners don’t give a shit about owning a team they just wanna watch the revenue come in. There are ways you can make it work, teams simply don’t do that.

Anonymous

OP 3w

Are you being dense on purpose? Again, a ton aren’t interested in owning teams. Also, again, the Dodgers owner is the owner of an investment firm where they literally make all of their contracts back during their duration by just investing the deferred money. Ohtani’s contract has already paid for itself multiple times over. Small market owners can’t just do that. You’re arguing in bad faith.

Anonymous

#2 3w

You don’t think there are 10 billionaires in the remaining 700 USA billionaires to buy the rest of the bad owners? Yeah right buddy have a good one

Anonymous

OP 3w

none that are interested in buying a team, otherwise they’d be owners rn. you seem to forget that they have to choose to bit the team