There are a lot of takeaways from the Dodgers’ latest act of free agent gluttony — turning Kyle Tucker, a very good but hardly great support player into a most unlikely record-breaking $60 million per year commodity — but perhaps the biggest one is for the first time uniting all the other owners, big market and small, in support of a salary cap in baseball. One has to believe baseball commissioner Rob Manfred’s phone has been ringing off the hook since news of the Dodgers’ four-year, $240 million deal for Tucker Thursday night, with calls of outrage that something has to be done to curb the out-of-control Guggenheim Partners. At the...
