In recent years, the Los Angeles Dodgers have added pieces to the puzzle as they try to build the powerhouse team they have become.
And among those additions are starting pitchers Tyler Glasnow, who arrived at Cal in 2024, and Blake Snell, who joined the team in 2025. Although he missed the playoffs last year due to injury, Glasnow now has two World Series titles and Snell just won his first.
And as the two main characters celebrated in the Dodgers locker room at Rogers Center on Saturday night, Glasnow gave a scathing remark about the players who lost to the Dodgers in the previous fall classic, while also giving Snell high five.
If you can't beat 'em, join 'em, baby!
You could say this is the same thing Glasnow and Snell did, as they were both members of the 2020 Tampa Bay Rays team that lost to the Dodgers in the World Series. Thus, the two later won the title together on the team that beat them at the time.
“If you can’t beat em, join em baby.” -Tyler Glasnow pic.twitter.com/izESPupswU
— Talkin’ Baseball (@TalkinBaseball_) November 2, 2025
For many baseball fans, the Los Angeles Dodgers' endless spending is bad for MLB. Some have even called Glasnow shameless, suggesting that this mentality is the cause of Major League Baseball's supposed problems.
But let's take just the two aforementioned players as an example. If the Rays had paid them according to their talent, the Dodgers wouldn't have been able to get them. You could say it was impossible for Tampa Bay. I'll let you do it.
What about Freddie Freeman of the Atlanta Braves and Mookie Betts of the Boston Red Sox, two teams whose financial resources wouldn't make anyone cry?
Of course, Glasnow wasn't entirely serious when he made that statement, but it makes sense for players to get the attention of the Dodgers, who have won back-to-back World Series titles and will be among the favorites again next season, and who aren't skimping on a few dollars.
And it's not that the Dodgers are unbeatable: the Toronto Blue Jays are one detail away from changing the narrative.
The rest of the Manfred Circuit teams must adapt.
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