A Full Deck Has Four Aces
Around sixty years ago, the Beatles said it best: Money didn’t buy Roki Sasaki… at least in the short term. Roki is likely looking at the big picture, knowing full well that this rotation is likely headed to the 2025 World Series. If he goes to the World Series and wins some…
Around sixty years ago, the Beatles said it best:
Money didn’t buy Roki Sasaki… at least in the short term. Roki is likely looking at the big picture, knowing full well that this rotation is likely headed to the 2025 World Series. If he goes to the World Series and wins some games, the payoff in endorsements will be huge! The Dodgers will own the Pacific Rim!
ACES: Yamamoto, Snell, Glasnow, Sasaki – That’s all a deck of cards has – four Aces! Has a team ever really had Four Aces? Kershaw used to be an Ace, but he’s not anymore. However, he should be back at some point in the season, as should Emmet Sheehan. At the beginning of the season, Tony Gonsolin and Landon Knack might round out the rotation. Let me tell you that many baseball people like Landon Knack and Tony Gonsolin was 16-1 in the season before his Tommy John.
Then there are Casparius and Wrobleski, and don’t even count out Bobby Miller. Let’s just consider last year an anomaly and move on. Nick Frasso should be back in 2025, and River Ryan and Kyle Hurt could be bullpen pieces in the postseason. At this point, I would sit down with Dustin May and convince him to become a high-leverage reliever.
This really isn’t even fair. Baseball is going to have to do something about it, and I am afraid that we will see a lockout in 2027. MLB is going to have to implement a salary cap maximum and minimum. This has been brewing for a while now. It’s nothing new… The Regional Network Model hasn’t changed so much as it has been blown up and disintegrated! MLB is going to have to go to increased revenue sharing and centralized revenues. MLB attendance has been down since the pandemic, and some teams are just floundering (on purpose) so the owners can make money. I am not going to mention names, but Miami, Pittsburgh, Oakland,
The Dodgers might win back-to-back-to-back World Series, and then in 2027, the lockout might last all year, and we might see AAA baseball in a ballpark near you. It’s probably going to happen. Enjoy the ride. I don’t know what the hell will happen after 2026.
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Discussion (54)
Disagree, not disagreeable
AF is smart with all his roster moves now because I’m sure there will be major changes when the MLB CBA expires on December 2026.
To me the biggest news and what definitely shows the Dodgers as heads-n-shoulders above everybody else is the signing of Deng from South Sudan – AYFKM!!
While he may never amount to more than an asterisk, the fact that they have a network in that part of the world – which isn’t exactly paradise or on anybody’s bucket list of places too travel is amazing and so far forward thinking to almost be comical.
Comes back to one of Mark’s best statements he ever posted.
The Dodgers are playing chess while everybody else is playing checkers!
It is getting to the point where it is now 3D chess vs. checkers!
Really enjoying this!
Also, welcome onboard Grant.
Wow, It’s going to be hard to figure out the active roster now. The Greatest team ever assembled. Hats off for AF and the owners.