The Los Angeles Dodgers have made significant splashes in free agency, adding high-profile players like Blake Snell and Michael Conforto, following a robust spending spree the previous year that included Shohei Ohtani. This aggressive strategy has frustrated other teams, with owners like Dick Monfort of the Rockies advocating for a salary cap to address what they view as a competitive imbalance in baseball. Despite the Dodgers' high payroll, history shows that spending doesn't guarantee championship success, as proven by the last 25 years of World Series champions.
"Something's got to happen. The competitive imbalance in baseball has gotten to the point of ludicrosity now. It's an unregulated industry," Monfort told The Denver Gazette.
"The only way to fix baseball is to do a salary cap and a floor. With a cap, comes a floor. For a lot of teams, the question is: How do they get to the floor?"
"The Dodgers are the greatest poster children we could've had for how something has to change. Sports are supposed to have some sort of fairness, right?"
"Over the last 25 years, the team with the largest payroll in baseball has won the World Series just four times."
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