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Are the superteam Dodgers bad for baseball? Is it time for an MLB salary cap?

The Dodgers remain the talk of the sport this offseason as they continue hauling in MLB's top talent. Their latest flurry of activity has increased their projected 2025 payroll to above $370 million, which clears the next-closest teams, while giving the defending champions perhaps their best roster yet. 

It all has many wondering what's next, not just for the Dodgers but Major League Baseball.

FOX Sports MLB experts Deesha Thosar and Rowan Kavner weighed in on the Dodgers' sweeping supremacy and how it could impact the future of the league.

Moderator: The Dodgers, coming off a dominant World Series run, have only added to their superteam and assembled one of the best rosters we've ever seen. It has the makings of a potential dynasty and has made them the sport's biggest villains since the Yankees of the late 90s/early 2000s. Is this ultimately good or bad for baseball?

Rowan Kavner: The payroll discrepancy is not a good thing for baseball, but we also haven't seen repeat winners since the early 2000s. There is still parity in the sport (for now), and what the Dodgers are doing also shouldn't be maligned so much. Yes, they can outspend teams, but their success goes far beyond that. There's a reason players want to go there. They've built a machine through spending, development and opportunism. 

The Red Sox could have paid Mookie Betts what he was worth, but they didn't. The Braves could have made more of an effort to keep Freddie Freeman, but they didn't. The Angels didn't even try to match the offer for Shohei Ohtani that most other contenders would've gladly taken. I would argue the bigger issue is the lower payroll teams not doing more to field a competitive group.

Deesha Thosar: One way or another, what the

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