I keep hearing about how the Dodgers are spending way more money on players than other teams, and obviously they’ve had an impressive run the last few years, but if teams like the Dodgers and the Yankees always have way more money than everyone else, how are they not always winning?

The Brewers are visiting LA tonight. The 3rd inning scorebug shows both teams still have both their challenges (the short yellow dashes). But what is the long yellow bar on the left for?

As a newer fan to baseball, I was rather surprised to know that the ABS challenge system had not been in place until this season and ir since the statcast era. After watching games with some terrible umpire calling, I was asking myself why are they even needed when bots could do their jobs better?

That was until I knew about framing, what an art it is by the catcher. Now, my perception completely changed (I don't know if it's for the better or worse). If the league were to completely implement the ABS system, the framing value of a catcher would be non-existent, whereas baseball is a game of strategy. Therefore, giving each team 2 challenges would make sure that all batters/pitchers/catchers have to pay attention to the pitches and challenge when necessary, while keeping the framing skills intact. What are your opinions?

On an unrelated note, what is tipping? I've heard about it in the postseason, but why is there so muchh controversy around it if it's not cheating?