The Los Angeles Dodgers have made significant moves this offseason, bolstering their roster with high-profile signings. However, New York Mets coach Eric Chavez has raised concerns, questioning whether such aggressive spending is ultimately good for the game of baseball.
The Los Angeles Dodgers are Major League Baseball's newest Evil Empire. They spent over $1 billion last offseason on Shohei Ohtani, Yoshinobu Yamamoto, Tyler Gl
MLB vet expects the Los Angeles Dodgers deferral overkill will set up a work stoppage after the current CBA expires.
Sasaki narrowed his finalists to three teams in the waning days, the Dodgers, Toronto Blue Jays and San Diego Padres. All of them met with Sasaki again around their major-league cities before he chose the Dodgers, according to reports.
From that point on, the Mets’ 67-40 record was the best in baseball. It earned them a playoff berth where as an underdog, they eliminated the Milwaukee Brewers in the Wild Card round and the Philadelphia Phillies in the Division Series, setting up a six-game bout against the Dodgers, who came out on top.
The New York Mets could steal pitcher Jack Flaherty from the Los Angeles Dodgers to continue filling out their rotation.
A former MLB exec is confident teams like the New York Yankees or Mets will push for an investigation of how the Dodgers signed Roki Sasaki.
The New York Mets have been trying to keep Pete Alonso in Queens, but that may no longer be a reality. They could lose him to a struggling American League team.
During an appearance on the “The Chris Rose Rotation” podcast Monday, the Richmond native purported that Billy Beane’s prized stat undervalues his breed — first basemen — and that the Mets front office should look past Pete Alonso’s career 3.8 average and at everything else he brings to the table.
While the Dodgers operate from a financial advantage, they also are schooling opponents with a relentlessness not enough rival owners share.
It has been 25 years since a team has won back-to-back titles. But in an effort to end that drought, the reigning champions have already committed $445.5 million in guaranteed dollars this winter. That’s more than the $370.5 million spent by the previous four World Series winners combined.