Major League Baseball does not have a problem with the Dodgers, who have exploited the ability to defer money in contracts as a way to lower the total value in these deals and who have built the closest thing to a superteam as has existed in baseball in decades. MLB surely has no problem with a high-powered and must-watch villain.
Twenty-nine other teams, though, should have a problem with the Dodgers, who are a problem that will not go away.
It is not just that the reigning World Series champions — who won despite nearly their entire rotation getting wiped out by injury — have added two potential aces and the best reliever on the market this offseason. It is that the reigning World Series champions have extended a window that is as enormous as those at Notre Dame Cathedral.
Sure, the 2025 Dodgers are going to be great. But what has been established this winter is so will the 2029 Dodgers.
