re: MLB: Off-Season Thread

They all have general wealth, why don’t they just do what the dodgers do ?

Again, feel like people don't understand how deferred money works. People don't just sit for 10 years, twiddling their thumbs, and go oh shite! once the deferments kick in

You have to actually show baseball you have the money to cover them, then they go into an account, and teams then can literally invest that money and earn profit on it

Teams typically make money on deferred salaries

My understanding is that because of what happened with the DBacks in the 2000s, that baseball literally requires all of the deffered money to be put into an escrow account upfront to prove that they can actually afford it and that they won't run into solvency issues paying it out like Arizona did

Deferred salaries are incredibly common. Just not that amount

players are pro deferrments because it drives salaries up in total value. owners are pro deferments because it stretches their payments out and they can then let that money actually work for them

both sides generally like them but what happened in ohtanis case is uinque.since he has so much money coming from other places. doubt we will ever see someone agree to defer 97% of their deal ever again

while i typically have the belief that every single organization in baseball massively downplays their revenues and could absolutely afford 200+mm contracts on the regular, putting up 680mm upfront is obviously something that a number of organizations couldnt do so....i do kinda get the consternation of the ohtani deal

maybe something gets put in place going forward where deferrals are allowed but instead of a total salary cap, somethign that is a complete non starter for the players and would absolutely 100% bring the entire 2027 season into jeopardy, we have a deferred salary cap