Depending who you ask, the Dodgers enter the 2025 season as one of the best or one of the worst things for the sport.
They’re a blueprint more teams need to follow, an example to less-willing clubs of what it means to really care about winning. Or, they’re a machine too powerful to copy, a behemoth benefiting from numerous revenue streams created by the addition of Shohei Ohtani and an enormous $8.35 billion local television deal that other teams can’t possibly compete against.
They’ve perfected MLB’s economic system by pouring their vast resources back into the club at an unprecedented rate. Or, they’ve broken it by exploiting a structure that needs an overhaul to correct the vast disparities.
As the Dodgers embark on the 2025 season, their extraordinary spending has drawn cheers locally, jeers nationally and eyes internationally. Appropriately, the reigning champions…
