Exactly.
It was fine when he was a kid and wasn’t recently recovered from a 2nd devastating knee injury, keep him happy and let him do what he wants. Now, he needs to grow up and do what’s best for him and the team.
That’s dumb. MLB teams have every right to protect their most valuable assets.
Also, from reading that, seems like the Braves would have grounds to cite injury as a reason to not allow him ti participate if they wanted to.
Just make the AAV of the contract count toward the luxury tax every year money is being paid. So Freeman’s 27 million AAV will count against the Dodger’s payroll every year until 2038 (or whenever he stops getting paid).
All we are looking for in a manager is someone that can keep the clubhouse together and have enough analytical sense to win at the margins when necessary. That’s literally it.