Dodgers' Massive $380M Payroll: Impact on MLB Competitiveness

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00:00I see the Dodgers allegedly the payrolls at three hundred and eighty million dollars.

00:04If that's true, so be it.

00:06If it's not, it's somewhere near there.

00:08And then, you know, I think people have been seeing over the last several days

00:12and weeks that they've literally almost signed every star player in baseball

00:17and they re-signed all their players, even Teoscar.

00:21And they went out and got the Japanese phenom.

00:25I mean, they get everyone and everything.

00:28And I know you're a Dodger fan and that's neither here nor there.

00:31I respect your fandom with the Dodgers.

00:34The question is, what's happening to baseball when one team gets everything they want

00:39and spends all this money and nobody else can even compete with them now?

00:43I mean, not even the Yankees.

00:45I mean, I guess the Mets can compete with them fiscally with Cohen.

00:50But it can't be good for baseball when I see one team at three eighty

00:53and I see a team at seventy nine million.

00:55They have no chance whatsoever.

00:57They might as well, you know, kick the can already.

00:59The season's over.

01:01Hasn't even started yet.

01:03You know, but the problem, Scott, isn't the teams that want to spend money.

01:06It's the teams that don't want to spend money in Major League Baseball.

01:10That's a bigger problem than teams want to spend money.

01:12And, you know, that's the Dodgers.

01:15And the the the the financials of baseball are two different stories,

01:20because honestly, if you want to look at the Dodgers, Teoscar Hernandez signed

01:24for like twenty two million dollars a year, bro.

01:26So he was a free agent for like a month and nobody stepped up

01:30and offered him more than twenty two.

01:31Like the Dodgers didn't even pay him that much, bro.

01:33They paid him like sixty seven million dollars, Scott, for three years, bro.

01:38You know what I mean?

01:38So it's not like they came in with some crazy offer.

01:40They said, go see what the market says.

01:43And nobody paid them.

01:44Sasaki took six million dollars to play for the Dodgers.

01:47San Diego offered him ten.

01:50Toronto offered him nine.

01:51Right. So it's not just a case of money.

01:53If you build a winning culture and you have a good organization,

01:57winning players and championship caliber players are going to want to be part of it.

02:00Let's be real.

02:01Ohtani changed everything by deferring the money, Scott.

02:04That's the real issue with the Dodgers.

02:06They gave them power.

02:07How many players are going to say, yeah, sure, I'll take seven hundred

02:10and seventy million dollars in ten years.

02:13You know what I mean? No one.

02:14No one's ever done that before.

02:16He's making two million dollars a year now, Scott.

02:18He's literally making two million dollars a year for the Dodgers right now.

02:22And they're going to pay him six hundred and sixty million or whatever

02:26in eight years now in one, you know, in a couple of payments or whatever.

02:30So that was something that helped them.

02:32But as far as baseball, I'm glad to use the Pirates as an example, Scott,

02:36because I believe their payroll was actually up to was like one hundred and nine.

02:40OK, and I just posted all of this online the other day.

02:43Throw out the payrolls and look at the percentage

02:47of revenue the teams spend on their players.

02:51All right.

02:51And that's where you're going to see who really wants to win.

02:54OK, the New York Mets are right at the top, like they, you know,

02:57out of all their revenue, they spend like 76 percent of their money back on players.

03:02And you can say, well, Cohen doesn't need the money, right, Scott?

03:06He doesn't really care about profiting off the Mets, right?

03:09He wants to win this guy.

03:11The Dodgers, the Dodgers only spend like 60 percent of their revenue

03:15because their revenue was so freaking high.

03:17So it was like five hundred and forty nine million dollars,

03:19the revenue of the Dodgers, and they spent like, like you said, over three,

03:22you know, close to 300 mil in the 300 mil range.

03:25But if you look at the bottom, the Pirates are a great example.

03:28Scott, the Pirates payroll was a buck.

03:30Oh, nine hundred and nine million dollars.

03:32You know what their revenue was?

03:34Three hundred and nine million dollars.

03:37So why is it the Dodgers fault that the Pirates owner is greedy

03:41and is pocketing two hundred million dollars a year, Scott?

03:44Why is it that the New York Mets doesn't want to sell the team

03:47because you want that?

03:48OK, thank you.

03:49Why is it that?

03:50Why is it in New York?

03:51Why is it?

03:52Why is it Steve Cohen's fault if the Seattle Mariners have a damn good team

03:56and spent 41 percent of their revenue on players?

04:00Like you want to talk about the real problem, right?

04:03You know, exactly.

04:04And you just nailed it right there.

04:07The fact of the matter is the small market teams

04:10and they're not small market teams.

04:13With the television money that comes in with baseball,

04:16every team in the league is bringing in nearly three hundred million dollars.

04:20Some teams choose to spend the money.

04:22Some teams choose to keep the money.

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