Steve Cohen is spending at a rate never seen before in Major League Baseball, most recently swooping in and signing Carlos Correa to a $315 million deal, bringing his offseason spending into the neighborhood of $800 million.
As Cohen changes the landscape of spending, The Athletic's Evan Drellich raised the question to other league officials: what do the rest of the owners think about this?
One notable response Drellich received suggested that it won't be taken kindly.
"I think it's going to have consequences for him down the road," one MLB official told Drellich. "There's no collusion. But … there was a reason nobody for years ever went past $300 million. You still have partners, and there's a system."
The comment by the unnamed source insists that there is no collusion, though his very next statement seems to suggest that the "reason" nobody ever went past $300 million was because of a mutual agreement between owners, or "partners." Nevertheless, it seems that Cohen has ruffled some feathers across the league.
"Our sport feels broken now," another MLB executive told Drellich. "We've got somebody with three times the median payroll and has no care whatsoever for the long-term of any of these contracts, in terms of the risk associated with any of them. How exactly does this work? I'm having a hard time wrapping my head around it."
Based on the comments to Drellich, it seems as though Cohen doesn't have many allies within the game right now.
"This game is based on partnership and relationships, and these small markets are going to be really pissed at him," one official told Drellich. "It's not that they can do anything to him, but everybody needs help in this game. I don't think he's going to get any help."
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