Jack Flaherty talks about the Dodgers destroying the baseball narrative

Jack Flaherty he just won the world series with Los Angeles Dodgers and wants to make it clear that the team spending not “destroying baseball,” as some have said.

“A certain team not ruining baseball,” he wrote Tuesday via Ks. “A lot of other teams just do very little.”

Flaherty, who is currently a free agenthe doubled down on his stance as fans flooded his mention, including one who agreed, saying that any team could have signed Kirby Yates, the Dodgers’ newest player.

“One team feels like they want it all and 27 teams are just chilling until they go to spring training,” the fan wrote, to which Flaherty responded with a “fact.”

When another fan balked, suggesting that Flaherty would be proven wrong in December 2026, when the current collective bargaining agreement expires, Flaherty fired back.

“You mean when owners decide to lock out players and then the players somehow get blamed,” he wrote.

As the masses continue to complain, Houston Mitchell of the Los Angeles Times summed up the problem — and it’s not with the Dodgers.

“The Dodgers also have to pay large financial penalties every year for being over the salary cap,” he wrote Tuesday. “That money is redistributed to other teams.” And do you know what some of the owners of those small market teams do with that money? Put it in your pocket. They don’t use it to invest in and improve their teams. Those who invest it, like Tampa Bay, usually find themselves in the postseason often.

The Dodgers payroll for 2025 will reach $375 million

The Dodgers’ offseason spending spree is something to behold. In addition to the return of Blake Trainen and Teoscar Hernandez, Los Angeles also signed Japanese phenom Rocky Sasaki, two-time Cy Young winner Blake Snell, Michael Comfort, Tanner Scott and Hyesong Kim.

On Tuesday, the Dodgers added even more to their bullpen by signing two-time All-Star Yates.

And that’s after an offseason in which the Dodgers signed Shohei Ohtani to a mammoth contract and Yoshinobu Yamamoto to a 12-year, $325 million contract.

Even before the Yates deal, the Dodgers’ winter shopping was good total 2025 payroll to over $375 million, according to ESPN’s Jeff Passan. Pasan added that’s $70 million more than the next-highest spending team, the Phillies.

The offseason isn’t over either. Flaherty remains on the board. So did Alex Bregman and Pete Alonso. While it’s unlikely the Dodgers would land any of them — and they certainly don’t have any glaring holes on their roster — it would be foolish to count them out of anything.