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Feels the same as Tigers going all out at the end of Illitch’s life. Took them like 10+ years to recover.

Its been out there that Padres can’t sustain the money were they spending on the roster under the last owner.

That bullpen lineup looks more like a team that wants to tank than make a run. Soul crushing watching half of those names attempt to throw a baseball. Jacob Webb cannot get major league innings on a serious team.

Im all for max spending (we are the 2nd richest team in the NL FFS) but im hard nope on Skubal. Dude is already on the pudgy side, already has shown how little he cares about team with his conduct towards the Tigers/Team USA in 2026. Yuck.

You could just, like, not follow baseball if you hate it that much…

I just hope when the lockout ends theres no salary cap and the schedule is still 162.

Praying for the east coast time zone right now.

I would do unspeakable things to get a “ho hum fine” rotation out of the 2027 Cubs after the cacophony of awful we were subjected to this year.

I also agree that Cabrera will be in the rotation, wasn’t trying to say otherwise, just that thats a demoralizing thought as a fan of good pitching.

Expecting Horton and Steele to contribute anything in 2027 is absurd. Letting Cabrera start big league games should also get the Cubs investigated for tanking.

But they have had an endless supply of them since 2018. Thats an 8 year sample of good outcomes with multiple GMs and managers.

Sounds like a Cub pitcher already.

Durans year by year statlines are fascinating.

Having no salary cap is playing by the same rules, every team gets to spend as much as they can.

You actually hit it on the head exactly, small markets franchises don’t generate equal revenue, they don’t deserve to spend at the same level as the big markets. I would also argue that from a purely entertainment perspective, sports are better with underdogs, and I don’t want a world where baseball doesn’t have that anymore. Theres nothing impressive about, as an example, the Brewers winning the NLCS over the Dodgers in a salary cap environment, the resource disparity made it compelling to a wider swath of people. Part of pro sports fandom is civic/regional pride, a salary cap is basically saying “our city can’t compete with yours so we need help” instead of finding other ways to win ala Tampa Bay or the money ball A’s.