Should MLB have a salary cap to prevent players from moving to bigger market teams?
Question:In my opinion the NFL has the best system for this. Any team can be competitive at any time given proper management. Baseball is being ruined by big market teams and salary inflations. In ten years, without anything being done, the sport will be ridiculous.
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The NFL system is far superior to the MLB system. Just look at the results.You've got the Yankees' payroll at nearly $190 million and the Red Sox at $143 million. 13 teams have less than half the Red Sox's payroll, and 3 Yankees (Giambi, A-Rod, Jeter) make almost as much as the entire Devil Rays squad!
Small market teams just can't compete with Steinbrenner's pocketbook. The owners can't pour money into a team when they're not getting much revenue back, and they're not going to get much revenue if their team isn't among the best. The only way to balance things out is with a salary cap.
One benefit of the MLB system is that it creates the empires (Yankees) and the underdogs (A's and Twins, for example). Everyone basically either loves or despises the Yankees, which draws attention to the game. A lot of people root for that underdog like the A's with a small market and less than half the Yankees' payroll but with a great system to beat the odds and pull the upset.
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No, Im having too much fun watching Stienbrenner trying to buy a world series.Whos better the Boston Red Sox or the New York Yankees?
No, of course not! If your team isn't paying the money a player wants, it's because the owner chooses not to. Tell your owner to open the vault. They can ALL afford it. Don't tell me they can't: You gotta be insanely rich just to buy a team. If you can buy A TEAM, you can buy ONE PLAYER. Don't whine about the Yankees or someone else buying a title, buy your own!The salary cap has ruined the NFL. Good teams can't stay together for more than, say, four or five years, and then they fall apart. Even the good teams aren't immune: Despite some success, the Patriots, Colts, Steelers and Eagles have had heavy turnover the last few years. The salary cap has to go.
Absolutely not. There's no such thing as a poor MLB owner. We need MORE Steinbrenners, not less. If every owner treated his team like a rich man's win-at-all-costs hobby instead of a profit-first business interest, popular players will be less inclined to bolt in free agency.
Of course, it is so terrible. Everyone knows you are talking about the Red Sox and Yankees. It is really awful how these teams can try to buy championships. Truth be told, most of the times, a team with 25% of their salaries wins the World Series.
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Actually there's still a lot of small-market teams in the NFL that say they can't compete as well as they'd like because big-market teams make more money than small-market ones. Ergo they have more money to spend on players. ie the Washington Redskins, most profitable team, always near the salary cap.As far as baseball, who says you shouldn't be able to have an expensive team if you can afford it. And there's teams now in baseball that don't even spend a mediocre amount, like the Marlins, Devil Rays, Royals, Pirates, etc.
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Absolutely. The parity in the NFL and NBA is great. MLB tried, during the strike years, but eventually folded. Starting with free agency 30 yrs ago, money has ruined this great game of ours. The players are grossly overpaid, and personally I'm tired of having to spend upward of $200 to go to a game and sit in ok seats. Middle market franchises can't compete with LA & NY. In this structure, they never will.A salary cap really wouldn't do a whole lot. Owners would just pay the tax they would get charged for going over the salary cap. Besides, its really not up to the MLB or the owners, the MLB Players Association would never allow it to happen. They have the strongest union in the United States and any talk revolving a salary cap is quickly followed by the word strike. That effectively ends those negotiations.
Yes they Should it would better for the Sport.
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No.The MLBPA will agree to a salary cap when the team owners agree to an income cap.
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Actually in a way they do have a salary cap. It's called the luxury tax. When teams salary goes over a certain amount that team must pay the league a tax. Last year the Yankees paid over 60million in luxury tax which gets split up among the league. Since other teams are profiting from the Yankees and Red Sucks high payroll how can it be bad for the league.More Questions & Answers...