MLB is a JOKE...
The Dodgers can spend at will and get every tip free agent they want ..Luxury Tax has no meaning for them ...Buy Works Series Championships then spend more to retain top co tender position...Its just money EHICH they have and other MLB teams do not or have owners who will not spend beyond a loser budget level.
Terrible for competitive balance to alow this without severe cap limits to rectify the unfairness of this system..
But WORSE yet!
Besides being gvable to buy Championships by spending g at will to land the best free agents,MLB let's Dodgers get away with signing 14 year oldss!
Not sure if that is to theirvminor league team(how do tgey avoid child labor laws?) Or if this latest OR stunt means this Mexican kid joins only sone Development Academy they run for realky realk young kids..but to give them the league on developing g a kid that young without t e kid bei available via a draft to another team more deserving duecto their piir finish lsdt MLB sesson makes a mockery of MLB which has lost any pretense they are merely a pimp for the Dodger Monipoly..
This is aytavesty!
F*#K the Dodgers..
Apparently teams cannot sign 14 year okds to binding co tracts..but itviscsort of an advance co tract which does not officially bond till the kid is 16..
I thought 26 was not a legal monorceotger but somehow MLB gets around this.
Anyway it amounts to an advance (wink wink contract to whicjI presume any advance money they pay the kid or his family has to be returned if he backs out of signing at 16...It is just another Dofers trick to cook the books Nd get another one over on the porch dumb shrubs pretending to conpetevfrom other teams'ownersxwho are more frugal with their cash give-aways.
What is next forcthe Dodgers...7 year olds ?Robbing the cradle with signings i tge obstetric watds as the babies are born(after tge Dodgers run genetics tests into sone A.I. patented projection for stardom software model they have perfected?
MLB is a JOKE allowing g the Dodgers to rin circles around alm the pretend der non-seriiysxownerscof otgercteams hoodwinked g their teams' fNs into thinking "you mean there is a chance?"..
False hopes...How can you compete vs. The cash of The Dodgers or their corneri g the kiddie market to supply stats i the pipeline...forever?
Its all just one big dad laugh...that is MLB.
The Dodgers always get their man ...and now their boys too!