It’s seeming everyone is going mental regarding the signing of Shohei Ohtani for the Dodgers, on a record deal and Mad Dog Ruso was not going to be left out of the conversation.
Ruso believes that the team deferring the payment to $2 million a year until 2033 the Dodgers are playing Dodgeball.
“That’s circumventing the salary cap is what that is. The whole idea of the luxury tax is to prevent the hoarding of Major League players. This is an absolute disgrace. This is completely unfair to the ethics of the games. Baseball cannot allow this. They have to look into this and change this … this is a joke! Baseball is going to allow this.”
In case you were under a rock in the past week, Ohtani signed a mega $700 million deal to the Dodgers.
It has emerged that he will not earn $70 million a year buy rather $2 million, deferring the rest to 2034-2043.
“Do you know that Ohtani is going to defer $68 million a year of his $70 million a year deal so that the Dodgers can spend money? So, he’s only going to take $2 million per year — if I read this right — over the course of his 10-year contract. That is completely bogus,” said an enraged Russo during his radio show on Sirius XM.
Ruso was far from done with his rant.
“Why don’t we just give the Dodgers every player? Give them Blake Snell. Give them Yamamoto. Give them Ohtani. Give them everybody so they can win some championships. They haven’t won in 100 years. Why don’t they give him everybody?”
Ruso may be mad, but technically he is correct and if this deal goes through league commissioner Rob Manfred will be next on Ruso’s hit list.
