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Do you think Abner Doubleday ever would have imagined that corporate titans in the biggest cities would be running teams like S&P 500 companies? Compiling teams in different sports where revenues are in the billions annually?

There was a time when professional players worked offseason jobs to have enough money to feed their families. Nowadays there are players making over $1 million a week, $4 million a month, $24 million a year. Not an outlier of one or two players, but they number in the dozens now.

And guess what, this is all within the rules. The Dodgers aren’t ruining baseball. The rules that allow it are at the center of the debate. Los Angeles had more money spent on their starting rotation than the team they just swept in the NLCS, the Milwaukee Brewers, had spent on their entire team payroll.

The only way is up. The Washington Nationals pitching staff was so statistically bad at a 5.35 ERA that they set a mark for the worst in team history and second worst in MLB in 2025. If there is any good news is the fact that the FIP was 4.72 telling us that the defense in both their actual performance and positioning played a factor in the demise of the pitching staff.