Farmer1906 said:

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We have a higher payroll than Arlington.

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But they have been more willing to spend freely on larger contracts. Ours is up there because of player longevity and it's taken a while. We have also been willing to let pieces walk. They have been willing to spend much more in the FA pool. Of course they had to because they weren't developing talent.

That's it. Crane should sell to somebody willing to spend.

-TexAgs probably

Ah yes...The ole Crane is a tightwad take has appeared.

Honestly surprised we've made this long into the offseason without that hot take.

Probably worth mentioning that this is likely pending a physical and Lee sustained a (gulp) ankle injury in July. By all accounts he is fully recovered now but there’s a reason they waited a bit to open his 30-day signing window. https://t.co/jHDP8s1gMA

— Andrew Baggarly (@extrabaggs) December 12, 2023

A player with an ankle injury has an agreement with the giants, what did possibly go wrong?

Good grief. The Crane criticism is absurd. We CURRENTLY have a streak of LCS appearances unrivaled by any other team in the history of baseball save one, and we could tie that mark this year. The Astros have not just been really good under Crane, but historically so.

I still give Luhnow 90% credit and the effect of his regime is dwindling year by year

The Dodgers after deferring $680 million of Ohtani’s contract til 2034

(Via @JFrankensteiner )
pic.twitter.com/SATt58psXk

— Barstool Sports (@barstoolsports) December 12, 2023

The Dodgers are aggressively pursuing both Josh Hader and Yoshinobu Yamamoto, along with other rotation pieces. A big part of their pitch is their intentions to build a 'super team'.

— Dan Clark (@DanClarkSports) December 12, 2023

Screw mlb for allowing this to be possible

Ag4life80 said:

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The sad fact is that the players who followed Beltran over the cliff did irrepairable harm to the franchise, far more than Jim Crane has ever done. It sucks, but what a great run this has been.

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what are you talking about? What harm did they do that is preventing signing people think we should make? And wtf harm has Crane caused?

EastCoastAgNc said:

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The Dodgers are aggressively pursuing both Josh Hader and Yoshinobu Yamamoto, along with other rotation pieces. A big part of their pitch is their intentions to build a 'super team'.

— Dan Clark (@DanClarkSports) December 12, 2023

Screw mlb for allowing this to be possible

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Yes, let's ruin MLB the same way the NBA ruined itself. Smart.

AgSportsFan89 said:

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EastCoastAgNc said:

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The Dodgers are aggressively pursuing both Josh Hader and Yoshinobu Yamamoto, along with other rotation pieces. A big part of their pitch is their intentions to build a 'super team'.

— Dan Clark (@DanClarkSports) December 12, 2023

Screw mlb for allowing this to be possible

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Yes, let's ruin MLB the same way the NBA ruined itself. Smart.

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How is this any different than what the Mets last year?

Remember when the Dodgers traded for Scherzer & Turner?

MLB seemed pretty successful when the Yankees just bought everyone from 95-2010.

You can buy wins in the regular season. It doesn't always work in October.

WGAF...Let em sign everyone. Better to put them all on one team from the other league then to let them go to multiple AL teams that we have to compete with.

They'll be stacked then get bounced before they get to the NLCS just like they have every year sans the clown COVID year.

Lonestar_Ag09 said:

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Ag4life80 said:

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The sad fact is that the players who followed Beltran over the cliff did irrepairable harm to the franchise, far more than Jim Crane has ever done. It sucks, but what a great run this has been.

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what are you talking about? What harm did they do that is preventing signing people think we should make? And wtf harm has Cra

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You seriously don't think that losing all those draft picks hasn't hurt the depth of the farm system? Limiting potential trade pieces, not to mention depth that could have been developed? Yikes

EastCoastAgNc said:

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The Dodgers are aggressively pursuing both Josh Hader and Yoshinobu Yamamoto, along with other rotation pieces. A big part of their pitch is their intentions to build a 'super team'.

— Dan Clark (@DanClarkSports) December 12, 2023

Screw mlb for allowing this to be possible

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I'm not worried. Everyone always complains about the big markets signing everyone, but MLB free agency is structured so that most players are only in their prime for a short period of time after they hit the market. A Dodgers super team will only be great for two or three years. After that, they'll be like the Yankees. Good, but not great. All of the dynasties for the past thirty years in the MLB were built by the farm systems. Even the Yankees of the late 90s/early 00s were built through the farm system.

Farmer1906 said:

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BREAKING: The Dodgers are on the verge of acquiring RHP Tyler Glasnow, and OF Manuel Margot sources tell @MLBNerds.

— Jack Azoulay-Haron (@AzoulayHaron) December 13, 2023

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It's amazing what flexibility LA has when they are basically getting Ohtani for free for 10 years.

This league is whacked.

I hear a rumor that the Dodgers are after the ghost of Lou Gehrig. Will play for same salary he did when alive.

And still defer 90%.

Yeah let's ignore we're paying Bregman, Altuve, Verlander, Javier, Abreu, McCullers, Alvarez, Pressly, Montero, & Graveman medium to big money on deals after their original team control.

Folks are kidding themselves if they ever expected us to compete in spending with the Dodgers, Yankees, Mets, etc.

Hell the Padres made it seem like anyone could spend like that, but that was strictly a dying rich guy that couldn't take him money with him. Now that he has passed you are seeing a financial retreat

Would love for MLB to get a hard cap or at least a stricter soft cap, but we all know that will never happen