Rockies Owner Slams Dodgers for Ruining Baseball, Says MLB Needs Change in Ridiculous Rant
The Colorado Rockies haven’t made the playoffs since 2018, haven’t made the World Series since 2007, and have never been the last team standing at the end of October.
They enter the 2025 season with the 21st-lowest payroll in Major League Baseball, and that payroll is down nearly $23 million from where it was in 2024, per FanGraphs roster resource.
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The Rockies are one of a few teams that enter the 2025 season with no hopes of winning the World Series, or even making the playoffs.
The Rockies have a 0.1 percent chance of making the playoffs, per FanGraphs, which is tied with the Chicago White Sox for the lowest in the league. The Miami Marlins are ranked 28th with a 1.7 percent chance.
With little to be excited about in Colorado entering the 2025 season, the team’s longtime owner, Dick Monfort, has decided to air out his grievances by taking shots at the reigning World Series champion Los Angeles Dodgers.
The Dodgers have dominated the National League West division for the last decade-plus, and have gone 133-75 against the Rockies since 2013 — when their run of 11 NL West titles in 12 years began.
This dominance has clearly set Monfort off.
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“The Dodgers are the greatest poster children we could’ve had for how something has to change,” Monfort said to The Denver Gazette this spring.
“Sports are supposed to have some sort of fairness, right? There’s got to be some purity.”
Monfort argued that Major League Baseball has been ruined by the big-market teams at the top with unlimited resources, and that the league must implement both a salary cap and salary floor to fix it.
“Something’s got to happen. The competitive imbalance in baseball has gotten to the point of ludicrosity now. It’s an unregulated industry,” Monfort said.
“The only way to fix baseball is to do a salary cap and a floor. With a cap, comes a floor. For a lot of teams, the question is: How do they get to the floor? And that includes us, probably. But on some sort of revenue-split deal, I would be all-in.”
The idea of a salary cap being implemented has been addressed by commissioner Rob Manfred on numerous occasions this winter following the Dodgers’ spending. He’s continuously defended the organization for what they’ve done this offseason.
“The Dodgers are a really well-run, successful organization,” Manfred said this winter. “Everything that they do and have done is consistent with our rules. They’re trying to give their fans the best possible product. Those are all positives. I recognize, however, and my emails certainly reflect that there are fans in other markets who are concerned about their team’s ability to compete. And we always have to be concerned when our fans are concerned about something. But pinning it on the Dodgers, I’m not in that camp.”
As for the idea of a salary cap in MLB, which would have to be implemented following the expiration of the collective bargaining agreement in 2026?
“This is an issue that we need to be vigilant on,” Manfred said. “We need to pay attention to it and need to determine whether there are things that can be done to allay those kinds of concerns and make sure we have a competitive and healthy game going forward.”
For what it’s worth, MLBPA director Tony Clark has made it known he is firmly against a salary cap in MLB.
“My position on the cap hasn’t changed as a player,” Clark said this offseason. “It has not changed as an executive. Our organizational history hasn’t changed. The concern hasn’t changed. It’s not in the best interest of players.”
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Translation: “I refuse to attempt to to field a competitive team, unless the Dodgers give me some of their hard-earned money.”
He wants a floor but only if revenue sharing helps him reach that floor. In other words, he wants to limit other teams while he continues to not spend money.
Another owner keeping dollars in his pockets rather than spending on the team. “If you can’t stand the heat…..”
The Rockies should bring in more investors so they can spend more money. The same goes for other teams that cry about the Dodgers, Mets, Yankees, Red Sox and several others. MLB actually loves collecting luxury taxes/fees. The small market teams need to join the party, and stop bellyaching and do things to improve prove their competitive edge.
It’s sad that this owner won’t spend a dime on talent and wants it all in his pocket so he wants every owner to be cheap, no this is how to go for it all and not settle, bro spend some of that money you can’t take it with you when your gone