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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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Anonymous 16w

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.

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Anonymous 16w

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

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Anonymous 16w

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

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 16w

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.

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 16w

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.”

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 16w

Then they shouldn’t own baseball teams🤷🏽‍♂️

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Anonymous 16w

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

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Anonymous 16w

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

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Anonymous 16w

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.

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Anonymous 16w

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

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