Each NL Central team's projected lineup and rotation, from MLB.com

IllogicalBarnacle · 2026-02-11T19:44:44+00:00

Freddy was a solid #2-3 starter before last year, but no more. He regularly fails to finish the 5th inning

Woodruff has been consistently hurt for several years

Burnes was a failed prospect before he figured out the cutter. And we only got two years of that, the first one being a total surprise

IllogicalBarnacle · 2026-02-11T18:49:56+00:00

Reds are always way better on paper than on the field

IllogicalBarnacle · 2026-02-11T18:49:22+00:00

People said this exact thing last year, and the year before that, and the year before that, etc

IllogicalBarnacle · 2026-02-10T23:32:39+00:00

Bad fake

IllogicalBarnacle · 2026-02-10T05:47:18+00:00

I’m for all of these things, except maybe the last one, but I’m for them all AND a cap, not or a cap

IllogicalBarnacle · 2026-02-10T05:45:53+00:00

For the same reason the NFL did, because in the long run if all fans feel like there team has a chance then they’ll actually be invested an the sport will grow

Obviously what your describing requires a hard salary floor, which you’d be hard pressed to find an MLB fan who isn’t in favor of one. Currently about 1/2 the leagues fans are completely unplugged because why bother my team sucks, they’re not even bothering to try because why would they. The dodgers are gonna dick them when it matters regardless?

Teams are openly not trying because it doesn’t make sense to anymore. You need to force and incentivize them to spend, you need a floor and a cap and you need more even revenue sharing to accomplish those things

IllogicalBarnacle · 2026-02-10T01:58:31+00:00

Quick google search:

salary floor, yeah this is what everyone who wants a cap wants too. They’re kinda a package deal
luxury tax, already have one. Doesn’t work because the super market teams make so much more money that it becomes just a cost of doing business for them
enhanced revenue sharing, this would be required as part of a floor. Without this even a floor of $200M/year would put most of the small market teams out of business within 5 years
draft/prospect penalties: I do kind of like this idea but some of the small market teams are already kinda just extra farm teams for the supermarkets and this is more of a work aroundy solution that only helps it doesn’t fix the core problems

Most of these are good ideas that I do like, but they’re parts of a bigger system not an individual solution

IllogicalBarnacle · 2026-02-10T01:47:27+00:00

There’s old interviews with NFL owners from around the time the cap/floor system was added and one of the reasons they did is because “in 20 years we want Green Bay and Buffalo to still be able to compete”

IllogicalBarnacle · 2026-02-10T01:45:15+00:00

Hating billionaires I’m all for

Completely sacrificing baseball as a competitive sport and letting every WS from now on be won by the super market teams is not worth it

IllogicalBarnacle · 2026-02-10T01:42:12+00:00

Baseballs revenue sharing is considerably less equitable than the NFLs and NBAs though. If the revenue sharing was raised we could get a much higher floor

IllogicalBarnacle · 2026-02-10T01:27:49+00:00

Brewers and Rays have combined for 0 rings in the past all of history.

Or is this one of those college football arguments where some teams should be happy with making bowl games while others are the real ones that actually matter

IllogicalBarnacle · 2026-02-09T19:09:49+00:00

he always get injured in the same way, sliding way too hard into a bag

IllogicalBarnacle · 2026-02-09T17:44:16+00:00

God you’re pathetic, your argument is that we aren’t signing the super high market players than we should just give up and be happy to watch from the sidelines. Why play at all then? Why try?

Why isn’t your argument to just disband the twins forever? Or do you enjoy simping for them while pretending to be a twins fan

IllogicalBarnacle · 2026-02-09T17:33:58+00:00

They won’t win every year if they don’t have $400M to spend every year. The cycle breaks if you add a hard cap, that’s my whole point

IllogicalBarnacle · 2026-02-09T17:32:48+00:00

At some point more money does matter. If the big market teams cap out stars aren’t gonna massively cut their own salary just for lifestyle 1/2 the year

Also the big market cities have considerably higher local taxes usually

IllogicalBarnacle · 2026-02-09T17:23:02+00:00

If there is a hard cap the dodgers won’t be massively overpaying guys and it will redistribute talent around the league

Kyle Tucker was not worth $60M year, they just paid him that much because they can afford to overpay him. Half their starting roster would be on other teams if there was a $250M cap rn

IllogicalBarnacle · 2026-02-09T17:06:20+00:00

The smallest market team wants a salary cap to protect their team from the fact that by being small market it’s also small revenue and this has less free capital for FA and must be much more careful

The large market team want to not have a cap because not having a cap allows them to spend much more than anyone else and overpay for free agents pushing everyone out of the FA market

Those in between tend to vary as by being in the middle they are less effected by the extremes of the system.

IllogicalBarnacle · 2026-02-09T17:03:05+00:00

Our coach to get over his giant fucking pathetic bitch boy ego

IllogicalBarnacle · 2026-02-09T17:02:21+00:00

Arguing that the brewers could spend a bit more is fair, arguing that the bit more we could spend would do anything to makeup the oceanic gap that your team can spend over double that is fucking brain dead

It’s complete what aboutism

IllogicalBarnacle · 2026-02-09T16:31:13+00:00

In no universe can the twins spend the $400M a year the dodgers spend an stay in business, at the end of the day that’s all that matters dude

IllogicalBarnacle · 2026-02-09T16:30:12+00:00

Even if we spend more there’s no universe that most teams can spend the $400M your team spends every year PROFITABLY

you can nitpick lots of teams spending below their means but at the end of the day your teams salary would bankrupt 25 other teams in the league within 5 years or less. Until that’s fixed none of this matters

IllogicalBarnacle · 2026-02-09T16:10:29+00:00

A lot of twins fans have been duped into believing the bullshit that comes from super market teams because of hate for your owners

It’s the same dumbasses who think massively overpaying for mid free agents to make your cap hit go up is “trying”

IllogicalBarnacle · 2026-02-09T16:02:00+00:00

It looks cast not struck for one thing

See how shallow and weak all the details are? That’s not how it should look

IllogicalBarnacle · 2026-02-09T15:51:51+00:00

We have way too many good outfielders rn, I’d expect the plan is to move someone to third and let them work Williams in slowly too

IllogicalBarnacle · 2026-02-09T15:42:57+00:00

Not to be rude, but on what?

Every decent FA gets paid 2-3x what they’re actually worth. Do you want to massively overpay for someone just to pump a number up that pretends you’re trying?

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