"To wit, a poor farmer owned a goose that miraculously laid a golden egg every morning, and he and his wife became rich selling those eggs. Soon, one per day wasn't enough. The greedy farmer, believing that the bird's insides were filled with gold, killed the goose and was left with nothing. He and his wife ended up poorer than they were before the wealth-providing waterfowl started enriching their lives."
"The Dodgers are determined to have the best player in baseball at every position in their everyday lineup, and Díaz is expected to alleviate the single weakness that almost cost them the 2025 World Series. It was a savvy move by an organization that truly prefers championships over bottom lines, a rarity in the current iteration of America's pastime. Further, the Dodgers' front office continues to piss up the legs of analytic terms like regression to the mean and dollar values per win."
Aesop's fable of the goose that laid the golden egg frames baseball's current economics and warns against shortsighted greed. The Los Angeles Dodgers signed closer Edwin Díaz to a three-year, $69 million contract to address a bullpen weakness after the 2025 World Series. The organization seeks top players at every everyday position and favors championships over financial constraints, often ignoring analytic measures like regression to the mean and dollars-per-win. The Dodgers' approach evokes historical executives such as Branch Rickey and Buzzie Bavasi, and recalls Bavasi's 1954 surplus of homegrown talent. The move raises prospects of labor tensions but a major work stoppage appears unlikely.
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