Skubal is a Dodger

[thelanges5]

Not a fan of this at all. Something the new CBA will address. I hope they lose!

https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2026/08/dodgers-to-acquire-tarik-skubal.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=bluesky

[tony&rodney]

2 minutes ago, thelanges5 said:

Not a fan of this at all. Something the new CBA will address. I hope they lose!

https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2026/08/dodgers-to-acquire-tarik-skubal.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=bluesky

What does the CBA have to do with a trade of prospects for Skubal?

Milwaukee has a phenomenal minor league system, probably better than the Dodgers. They surely could have offered up a few of their guys within their top ten without losing their top three guys. 

The Twins benefit from not facing Skubal any more this season ..... until the World Series.

[chpettit19]

Hope can swing it, but I'm very confused by all the love for Ryan. He's 27. He has to be good right now or he'll be in decline before he hits arbitration. Never heard of the other guy.

Fully agree with @tony&rodney, if somebody like the Brewers wanted Skubal, they could've beat this package, in my opinion. But the industry seems to love River. I just don't get it for a 27 year old who's always hurt.

[Dave Borton]

Tigers essentially traded a two-fer. Smith is a toss in, 0-7, 5.57ERA across A and AA this year. Probably leans on a FB, as he has 113Ks in 74 inn,

[Parfigliano]

39 minutes ago, chpettit19 said:

Hope can swing it, but I'm very confused by all the love for Ryan. He's 27. He has to be good right now or he'll be in decline before he hits arbitration. Never heard of the other guy.

Fully agree with @tony&rodney, if somebody like the Brewers wanted Skubal, they could've beat this package, in my opinion. But the industry seems to love River. I just don't get it for a 27 year old who's always hurt.

Ryan will be 28 in 13 days.

[Mike Sixel]

That seems really light to me. 

[chpettit19]

1 hour ago, Parfigliano said:

Ryan will be 28 in 13 days.

Yikes. 

[Vanimal46]

Very scripted move for baseball. They might as well 3 peat then shut it down until they finally fix this broken financial system 

[TJSweens]

9 hours ago, tony&rodney said:

What does the CBA have to do with a trade of prospects for Skubal?

The fact that a cap would prevent the Dodgers from adding unlimited salary comes to mind. Or that a salary floor prevents teams from simply dumping salary, like Correa.

[whosafraidofluigirussolo]

I’m not sold that any single deal like this means convincingly that the game’s economics are broken—but it’s a bummer that someone other than one of the very biggest-market, biggest-payroll teams didn’t make this deal, regardless of the reasons.
 

Among others, Fangraphs had a well written argument  for the Brewers or Rays to deal for Skubal: https://blogs.fangraphs.com/the-rays-or-brewers-must-trade-for-tarik-skubal/

Certainly the Brewers’ player development is good enough that I’d expect they could replace the contribution of Hope and Ryan-like prospects in short order. 

[Craig Arko]

 

[AlLagoon]

Bums

[tony&rodney]

1 hour ago, TJSweens said:

The fact that a cap would prevent the Dodgers from adding unlimited salary comes to mind. Or that a salary floor prevents teams from simply dumping salary, like Correa.

Ok. Another person who believes a cap is coming. You are not alone.

I'm just in it for the baseball. How the owners mess with the game is well out of my control.

[MMMordabito]

At least the NHL starts a little earlier this year. Dodgers are boring.

[strumdatjag]

10 hours ago, thelanges5 said:

Not a fan of this at all. Something the new CBA will address. I hope they lose!

https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2026/08/dodgers-to-acquire-tarik-skubal.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=bluesky

I hope the Dodgers go undefeated in the most boring post-season in the history of MLB.    I hope the TV ratings are abysmal. .   
Then maybe just maybe MLB will bring in a salary cap and MLB can become competitive.  

[tony&rodney]

4 minutes ago, strumdatjag said:

I hope the Dodgers go undefeated in the most boring post-season in the history of MLB.    I hope the TV ratings are abysmal. .   
Then maybe just maybe MLB will bring in a salary cap and MLB can become competitive.  

Will you watch the Twins or the Vikings when they play at the same time in September?

[strumdatjag]

5 minutes ago, tony&rodney said:

Will you watch the Twins or the Vikings when they play at the same time in September?

I’m setting the DVR and watching both.   But fast-forward can be a great feature. 

[Mike Sixel]

2 hours ago, Vanimal46 said:

Very scripted move for baseball. They might as well 3 peat then shut it down until they finally fix this broken financial system 

Any team could have matched this. It has nothing to do with money. Milwaukee and Tampa didn't want to give up prospects, because like the Twins, they never actually go for it when in position. 

[notoriousgod71]

Probably because Milwaukee and TB know they would have no shot at resigning him after the season whereas LA will if they want him.

[Mike Sixel]

 

 

[TheLeviathan]

5 hours ago, Mike Sixel said:

 

 

I honestly don't know how anyone posts that with a straight face.  Googling the income disparity for TV revenue literally takes 12 seconds.  

[Mike Sixel]

18 minutes ago, TheLeviathan said:

I honestly don't know how anyone posts that with a straight face.  Googling the income disparity for TV revenue literally takes 12 seconds.  

Well, I agree. The Brewers have the best record, and they are doing what? Tampa traded for a guy whose been terrible this year. Detroit waved the white flag, which might be the right idea, but now it's over for them this year. 

The other teams could have made this trade, but didn't.

[TheLeviathan]

40 minutes ago, Mike Sixel said:

Well, I agree. The Brewers have the best record, and they are doing what? Tampa traded for a guy whose been terrible this year. Detroit waved the white flag, which might be the right idea, but now it's over for them this year. 

The other teams could have made this trade, but didn't.

An extra 200 million a year is a heavy factor in any risk calculation don't you think?

[Mike Sixel]

4 minutes ago, TheLeviathan said:

An extra 200 million a year is a heavy factor in any risk calculation don't you think?

We clearly won't agree. If Milwaukee and Tampa aren't going for it with these records, they never will. And that's not about money. 

[TheLeviathan]

2 hours ago, Mike Sixel said:

We clearly won't agree. If Milwaukee and Tampa aren't going for it with these records, they never will. And that's not about money. 

Part of what has made those teams successful is trust in their own process to keep producing talent.  Dealing those talents off for a small percentage increase of  playoff success is bad math.  

The Dodgers can bad math their way through every decision the same way Elon Musk can compared to your local mom and pop shop.  The risk/reward analysis is broken.

It sucks.  The system should be rewarding them for their plucky ability to develop talent....but it doesn't.

[Craig Arko]

And right before the deadline…

For cash considerations.

[TheLeviathan]

1 hour ago, Craig Arko said:

And right before the deadline…

For cash considerations.

Immediately signed to a 450 year, 6 quadrillion dollar contract.  Deferred payments until the sun goes nova.

[Danchat]

1 hour ago, TheLeviathan said:

Immediately signed to a 450 year, 6 quadrillion dollar contract.  Deferred payments until the sun goes nova.

...isn't there a Superman villain that can make the sun go nova? 😉

[tony&rodney]

The constant fear based comments that demand a salary cap and floor are hard to understand for me. Why? Because the owners specifically set up the system that allowed teams to create the current financial gap. Now they want the players to adhere to a new system that will, in theory, guarantee that each owner turns a profit of some sort through a cap system that doesn't even address what counts as revenue. People continually compare baseball to other professional sports. No other league has an anti-trust exemption, nor do other leagues keep their books private. The commissioner and owners have operated for decades in a dishonest fashion. The owners created the revenue disparity and only the owners can solve the issue. Professional leagues are pretty simple if one looks at a basic principle. Games cannot take place without two teams. Leagues will, most likely, not work with just eight teams in say Division One. Given the basics it makes sense that all revenues related to games, attendance and media deals, should be shared. Otherwise there will be increasing disparity over time. The insistence that players solve a problem created by owners is too difficult to understand for me.