PALM BEACH, Fla. — The high-spending Los Angeles Dodgers are not ruining baseball, commissioner Rob Manfred said on Thursday.

With the Dodgers committing nearly $1 billion to sign Shohei Ohtani and Yoshinobu Yamamoto last year and this offseason getting more stars like Blake Snell and Roki Sasaki, plus extending key players like Tommy Edman, many critics have argued that Los Angeles is making it impossible for smaller-market teams to compete.

Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred says he is getting emails from fans concerned over the sport’s lack of a salary cap following an offseason spending spree by the Los Angeles Dodgers that sparked incr