Tampa Bay gets a Ray of hope, but the Dodgers are still more interesting

Los Angeles Dodgers shortstop Corey Seager is out at first base as Atlanta Braves starting pitcher Ian Anderson receives a throw on Sunday in Arlington, Tex.If – and it’s a big if – the Tampa Bay Rays win the upcoming World Series, every executive on every other team in Major League Baseball ought to work the next year for free. Because they are doing business wrong.

The Dodgers are an exorbitantly priced, win-right-now team that never manages to win right now. Their adjusted payroll is more than US$100-million. They play in what might be the best market in baseball inside what might be the most romantic stadium . Their uniforms are fantastic.“Mookie Betts is available? I’d heard he was maybe the best player in baseball. Can we get him? It’s going to cost how much? Fine. Why would I care? I’m not getting paid a percentage of the profits.

The easy argument here is that scruffy little Tampa is better for baseball than the pashas in Los Angeles. Shouldn’t we celebrate the team that MacGyvers its way to competence? Aren’t we bound by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights to root for the underdog? Baseball needs romance. It needs ridiculous numbers. It needs massive aspirations and huge disappointments. It needs stars, busts and someone who’s willing to run way into the red to win this year.

But it isn’t my money. If some 0.00001-per-center wants to purchase Mookie Betts’s services for more than it costs to build a fighter jet, I say that’s the least he can do for the rest of us. That and pay his fair share of taxes.Story continues below advertisement Maybe more than one. And unlike the tank, maybe they’ll do it forever. Between transfer payments and shared TV revenue, you can run a fairly successful baseball business that never even attempts to win baseball games.

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