After the LA Dodgers won the 2025 World Series at the start of November 2025, Jason Kelce slammed the MLB, drawing the team’s president to clap back. On his New Heights podcast with his brother, Travis Kelce, he said baseball is suffering because teams just buy championships. Stan Kasten, the Dodgers’ president and co-owner, issued a response to Kelce’s criticism during a podcast appearance.
Jason Kelce called out by LA Dodgers boss
LA Dodgers president and co-owner Stan Kasten recently appeared on the baseball podcast The Windup. During the November 12 episode, hosts Jayson Stark & Doug Glanville spoke to Kasten about the LA Dodgers’ recent World Series win. As they discussed the team’s success, the hosts asked Kasten for his thoughts on Jason Kelce’s comments about baseball and the LA Dodgers winning the 2025 World Series.
Speaking of the Dodgers winning, Kelce said on his New Heights podcast on November 6, “Well, yeah, that’s why baseball sucks! You just buy World Series championships. It’s the dumbest thing in the world.”
Kasten responded to this saying, “First of all, history demonstrates that’s not true because usually, the team with the highest payroll doesn’t win the World Series. So I hate to throw facts at him, but I will throw one quote from someone in his city, and that’s Bryce Harper, who said the only people complaining are losers. I think he’s exactly right.”
Further he went on to defend the Dodgers’ success, explaining, “What got us to the position we’re in, the position of being able to have lost the World Series, at any point in the World Series, [in] 20 different ways was because, yes, we had a high payroll, but those people need to be led and developed, and we need to be backed up by a farm system that is productive year in, year out.”
“Without that, we couldn’t compete and just buying a World Championship. If it were true, more teams would be trying that approach. It’s not true. You need everything to succeed,” he added.
Originally reported by Elton Fernandes on Mandatory.
