2026 ATL Thread - Tucker to the Dodgers 4/$240 million

[th87]

And that after taking what Turang did not.

[coolhandluke121]

Go Jays. Between the proximity and all the Letterkenny/Shoresy I've watched I'm basically Canadian anyway.

Can't be an honorary Canadian without Murdoch Mysteries.

Toronto broke my heart in the summer of1992 (my first time being a true sports fan), won a title, stole Paul Molitor, and won another one. Wanted Seattle all the way, but I can't bring myself to truly hate Toronto after all these years.

Just beat the friggin' Dodgers.

[Thunder Muscle]

Gotta feel for Seattle fans. Never been to a world series and you lose like that. Brutal

Yeah I text my buddies that our NLCS is way easier to take than what Seattle endured in their series.

What a game and huge moment. Baseball in those moments is hard to beat.

[MickeyDavis]

If you enjoy baseball history Who Killed the Expos? on Netflix is interesting.

[trwi7]

Would much rather lose the way we did. I can't imagine what it would be like if the Brewers won the first two on the road, had a 3-2 lead going into game 6, a 2 run lead going into the 7th of game 7 and losing.

[MVP2110]

Just watched "Who killed the Montreal Expos"

Fascinating watch. Always gotta feel for fans who lose their team, that has to be devastating

[coolhandluke121]

Just watched "Who killed the Montreal Expos"

Fascinating watch. Always gotta feel for fans who lose their team, that has to be devastating

I remember them almost as the original A's/Rays/Brewers. Small market team that kept developing great young talent. Miss that logo too.

[coolhandluke121]

There's a part of me that almost wants LAD's rotation to keep dominating. I'd rather believe that the Brewers just ran into a buzz-saw at the worst possible time than believe that they were pretenders all along.

[Ron Swanson]

Yeah, sadly I'm convinced that a dominant Dodgers sweep is the only outcome that's gonna turn up the heat with casual fans/media and spur any sort of meaningful salary cap discussion over the winter. Would love to root for the Jays but if they somehow win as massive underdogs, all we're hear about for the next several years will be the usual "sEE, pAyROLl dOESn'T GUAraNtEE aNYtHinG" apologists.

[ReasonablySober]

Yeah, sadly I'm convinced that a dominant Dodgers sweep is the only outcome that's gonna turn up the heat with casual fans/media and spur any sort of meaningful salary cap discussion over the winter. Would love to root for the Jays but if they somehow win as massive underdogs, all we're hear about for the next several years will be the usual "sEE, pAyROLl dOESn'T GUAraNtEE aNYtHinG" apologists.

I mean, the Jays also have the fifth highest payroll in baseball. You can make the payroll argument anyway you want it. Cap detractors will just say that the Brewers had the best record in baseball despite their payroll.

[ReasonablySober]

Honestly incredible.

[BUCKnation]

There's a part of me that almost wants LAD's rotation to keep dominating. I'd rather believe that the Brewers just ran into a buzz-saw at the worst possible time than believe that they were pretenders all along.

Yeah, im rooting for a 4 game sweep

[coolhandluke121]

Yeah, sadly I'm convinced that a dominant Dodgers sweep is the only outcome that's gonna turn up the heat with casual fans/media and spur any sort of meaningful salary cap discussion over the winter. Would love to root for the Jays but if they somehow win as massive underdogs, all we're hear about for the next several years will be the usual "sEE, pAyROLl dOESn'T GUAraNtEE aNYtHinG" apologists.

I mean, the Jays also have the fifth highest payroll in baseball. You can make the payroll argument anyway you want it. Cap detractors will just say that the Brewers had the best record in baseball despite their payroll.

Do you know of any payroll sites that factor deferred money into payroll? I'd still like to see that. Even if I wanted to do some napkin math, I would have to know how much of that deferred money is part of a player's current contract and not part of their last contract (or extension) with the same team. For example, if Kershaw has deferred money from a previous extension but not from this one, I wouldn't consider that to be part of his current salary. However, all of Shohei's deferred money should be averaged into his salary on his current contract, because being able to offer him all of that deferred money is part of LAD's economic advantage.

I would guess that LAD's payroll gap looks even more dramatic once deferred salary is factored in.

[trwi7]

The playoffs this year are basically what an 8 year old does in a video game. Change every player's rating on one team to 99 and change the settings to rookie

[MickeyDavis]

So Snell IS hittable.

[trwi7]

The playoffs this year are basically what an 8 year old does in a video game. Change every player's rating on one team to 99 and change the settings to rookie

Talking about the Blue Jays of course.

[Profound23]

I don't care what it says about our team, home LA gets swept

[Mags FTW]

Will the Jays scoring more runs in one inning than we did in a whole series be a wake up call for Mark, or nah?

[blazza18]

Ohtani seems to do well when the game and series is over

[trwi7]

Ohtani seems to do well when the game and series is over

You bet