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Originally Posted by OhioLawyerF5
There needs to be both a salary cap and a salary floor for either to really be effective. Neither is needed more than the other. Both are necessary equally.
And showing that the big market teams don't win all the time and that some small market teams do well isn't proof that a salary cap isn't needed to fix the economic disparity in the league. It's just an indictment of the big market teams' ability to do well with the advantages they have (and a little about the random nature of baseball). Give that same Brewers front office the resources of the Yankees and you wouldn't see postseason flameouts.  |
This. Whatever team ends up winning, you can not say the teams that spend the most don't have a huge advantage going into the season. How many of those years did the Yankees and Dodgers make the playoffs? The teams that spend the most have a luxury that smaller payroll teams don't have. I do think we need a salary floor as well. In the NBA and NFL teams spend very similar amounts all the way around because they, basically, share a lot of the money. The MLB needs to figure out a way to make this happen. Small market teams can not continue to just be a feeder system for the big market teams. I know some owners are cheap, but the system is way beyond broken when the Dodgers are spending 8x of the smallest team. Are they proud of themselves for winning it all when they have such a huge payroll? Congrats.