Originally Posted by
simpdog
So basically what you're saying is you want the Dodgers to continue purchasing a Division pennant every year so they have a good shot at making the World Series?
Baseball used to be about tradition, but let's face it....it's about the $. More teams = more $$ and they could care less about tradition at this point.
If you want see more control over what teams can purchase, I'm open to that. If you look at the Dodgers, though, they had plenty of homegrown talent and former nobodies who figured prominently into their success for the last several years. Remember, while Max Muncy, Justin Turner, and Chris Taylor didn't start off with the Dodgers, they were considered unwanted trash by all other teams at the time the Dodgers got them. Yes, acquiring Betts was huge, as was the midseason acquisitions of Trea Turner and Max Scherzer, but the bottom line is that this wasn't really a team which bought their way in.
As you saw in the offseason, the Dodgers aren't just an endless fountain of cash. Seager and Scherzer left for more money elsewhere. Kershaw might do the same.
Anyway, this is an entirely different discussion. There should not be 14 playoff teams, regardless of how the salary structure ends up being.
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