That seems pretty arbitrary to have a cap based on what they paid for the team years ago.
Rizzo and the Lerners both are willing to spend money when it makes sense. It's not necessarily a slam dunk that signing Soto or anyone for 40-50 million for 13 years is smart for the team's on field success.
Boras is bad for baseball, and I hope the new CBA can do something about it. Boras's approach just leads to most of the star players leaving the cities where they are popular to go play out their career on a crappy team and get their 40 million a year for years past their prime.
It's counter intuitive, but maybe it's time to lower free agency age by 2-3 years and cap contracts at 10 years.
So billionaire owners can be greedy “when it makes sense” but when millionaire players are greedy it’s “bad for baseball” and there is a need to do “something about it”.
