The Dodgers signing Juan Soto and Roki Sasaki would be devastating for baseball

The folks at MLB won’t say it — and maybe they don’t even know it, or think it — but they need two things not to happen this free agency season. They absolutely need pitching sensation Roki Sasaki and hitting superstar Juan Soto not to sign on with that traveling band of All-Stars and all-time greats known as the Los Angeles Dodgers. 

Nothing against LA. But let’s face it, the Dodgers are simply too good already. 

I know this is the opposite of last winter when I opined that it was “great” for baseball that Shohei Ohtani went to the Dodgers (over the Blue Jays) because the incomparable Ohtani belonged on a marquee franchise. I think my border-crossing privileges were revoked over that one. 

Anyway, the equation changed, the script flipped and the Dodgers look a level or three above everyone else since they signed the $182M, two-time Cy Young winner Blake Snell after they somehow managed to win the World Series with most of their better starting pitchers either injured or inactive.