2025-2026 offseason thread

The Dodgers don't care about penalties and like others have said they need to be so severe that you don't over them or have a hard cap. Skubal would be the next be contract coming up but with a lockout coming he may not be if penalties are put in place.
 
chop2chip said:
Let’s just go with a hard cap and hard floor. That way average joe fan doesn’t ever need to worry how much money their team makes from a TV deal or real estate investments.

A couple thoughts after a few margaritas.
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What if the luxury tax penalty got more severe for level 3+ and repeater luxury tax teams. Make it so they have to give up either their first or second and third round pick to the team they sign them from. Also they can’t offer their own players QOs
 
Slippyjms said:
What if the luxury tax penalty got more severe for level 3+ and repeater luxury tax teams. Make it so they have to give up either their first or second and third round pick to the team they sign them from. Also they can’t offer their own players QOs
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when you have a team that’s willing to pay Kyle Tucker a $120m a year (because Ohtani is an infinite money glitch) then I think don’t think you can make the penalty severe enough to deter.

Just mimic the NFL and be done with it.
 
chop2chip said:
when you have a team that’s willing to pay Kyle Tucker a $120m a year (because Ohtani is an infinite money glitch) then I think don’t think you can make the penalty severe enough to deter.

Just mimic the NFL and be done with it.
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Even if you did make that change... how do you unwind all the guaranteed money already given?
 
sturg33 said:
Even if you did make that change... how do you unwind all the guaranteed money already given?
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You can’t. You’d have to phase into a hard cap. Or have some type of amnesty clause. The NBA has dealt with this. Their latest CBA basically turned the soft cap into a hard cap and they gave teams 2 years to prepare.
 
However obnoxious one might find the Dodgers, the idea that it's a good idea for the long-term future of baseball to instigate a potentially devastating lockout all so you can restrict the spending of the team that had the fifth-best record in baseball last year is not a position I agree with.
 
chop2chip said:
You can’t. You’d have to phase into a hard cap. Or have some type of amnesty clause. The NBA has dealt with this. Their latest CBA basically turned the soft cap into a hard cap and they gave teams 2 years to prepare.
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Yeah, id imagine that will lead to LAD then just giving 1 year $50M dollar deals to whoever they can get during the prepare window
 
Hector Gomez says the Dodgers are pushing hard for Freddy Peralta. If that happens, the league is absolutely broken. Fuck the 2026 season, honestly.

Also, trading him to the team who absolutely kicked your ass in the playoffs would be an insanely weak move by the Brewers. Yikes. Regardless of the return.

Also, yes, I know Hector is often wrong.
 
UNCBlue012 said:
Hector Gomez says the Dodgers are pushing hard for Freddy Peralta. If that happens, the league is absolutely broken. Fuck the 2026 season, honestly.

Also, trading him to the team who absolutely kicked your ass in the playoffs would be an insanely weak move by the Brewers. Yikes. Regardless of the return.

Also, yes, I know Hector is often wrong.
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Do they even need him? They have Ohtani, Glasnow, Yamamoto and Snell, plus others behind them. Those 4 with Peralta would be an absolutely insane rotation. If the return is good, you cant really fault LA.
 
I wonder if the Dodgers know MLB is going to crush their tactics in the next CBA so they're going all in while they can. The system is ridiculously broken. If it even marginally improves then the Dodgers will be screwed.
 
striker42 said:
I wonder if the Dodgers know MLB is going to crush their tactics in the next CBA so they're going all in while they can. The system is ridiculously broken. If it even marginally improves then the Dodgers will be screwed.
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That'd be my guess. They know a big change is coming
 
chop2chip said:
when you have a team that’s willing to pay Kyle Tucker a $120m a year (because Ohtani is an infinite money glitch) then I think don’t think you can make the penalty severe enough to deter.

Just mimic the NFL and be done with it.
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It would limit the amount of QO FAs a high spending team could sign in an offseason and would severely limit their ability to draft their own players. They also wouldn’t be able to use the QO to recoup draft assets. I’d also have the system work so that these teams don’t just lose their picks they are directly given to the team losing the QO FA. It would take some time but a bloated payroll would eventually crush a team.
 
striker42 said:
I wonder if the Dodgers know MLB is going to crush their tactics in the next CBA so they're going all in while they can. The system is ridiculously broken. If it even marginally improves then the Dodgers will be screwed.
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My buddy is a Dodgers fan and he said their beat guys all say this same thing. They said sources inside the organization know they need to do it now while they can lol which is disgusting, but I don't blame them.

Plus, outside of money, they have an incredibly deep farm with top-tier outfield and starting talent that's essentially going to waste because of their free agents splurging over the last couple of years.
 
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