The Los Angeles Dodgers were the talk of the sport, both for better and worse, after following up their 2024 World Series title with a remarkable offseason that saw them sign Blake Snell, Tanner Scott and Kirby Yates.
That was in addition to re-signing their own free agents, Blake Treinen, Teoscar Hernández, Clayton Kershaw and Kiké Hernández.
Dodgers fans reveled in the team’s prospects to repeat as World Series champions, but plenty of others cried foul and began calls for an MLB salary cap with the new collective bargaining agreement that will need to go into effect for the start of the 2027 season.