The Los Angeles Dodgers angered the baseball world yet again on Sunday, signing All-Star closer Tanner Scott to a four-year, $72 million deal.<\/p>\n
While the move \u2014 yet another major signing for the reigning World Series champs \u2014 led to many fans calling out MLB for not having a salary cap, free agent Joe Kelly doesn\u2019t see it that way.<\/p>\n
In fact, he laid out pretty clearly why that argument doesn\u2019t make any sense.<\/p>\n
\u201cLet\u2019s say Shohei Ohtani could only make $10,\u201d Kelly said Sunday on\u00a0the Baseball Isn\u2019t Boring podcast. \u201cThe whole entire league could pay Shohei Ohtani $10. He is coming from Japan. Growing up, watching movies \u2014 and if you just do a quick\u00a0Google search, \u2018best places to visit when you\u2019re going to America\u2019 \u2013 Minnesota is not popping up, Pittsburgh is not popping up, Milwaukee is not popping up.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhy the f\u2014 would he be like, \u2018Oh, I\u2019m going to make $10 in Milwaukee.\u2019 That\u2019s the problem with the (salary) floor and the (salary) cap that people don\u2019t understand.<\/p>\n
\u201cEven if every team could pay him $10, he\u2019s going to go to the team, number one, which is a great destination to be at. Number two, you have to show him what separates (your team) at that point.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Dodgers are baseball\u2019s best run organization, and have turned into a destination spot for just about every top free agent. So why wouldn\u2019t players want to be a part of that?<\/p>\n
The Dodgers, after spending $700 million on Shohei Ohtani, quickly pivoted to making Yoshinobu Yamamoto the highest-paid pitcher in MLB history on a 12-year, $325 million last offseason.<\/p>\n
This offseason, they\u2019ve done even more, adding Blake Snell, Michael Conforto, Roki Sasaki, Hyeseong Kim, and now Scott, while also bringing back Teoscar Hern\u00e0ndez.<\/p>\n