SAN FRANCISCO — The “Dodgers are ruining baseball” discourse that dominated last winter included pleas for a salary cap from the owners of the Baltimore Orioles, Colorado Rockies and Pittsburgh Pirates.
Congratulations, gentlemen, your teams are in last place. For you, the Dodgers are a handy scapegoat.
But the discourse also included this take from the owner of the New York Yankees: “It’s difficult for most of us owners to be able to do the kind of things that they’re doing,” Hal Steinbrenner told the YES Network. “We’ll see if it pays off.