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2009-08-11 1:32 AM
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I'm all for a salary cap.  Mostly because watching my beloved Mets suck year after year is more painful when they show that we are spending way too much on players who blow. 

2009-08-11 6:23 PM
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chriswebb86 - 2009-08-10 7:28 PM

ChineseDemocracy - 2009-08-10 4:14 PM I don't know, doesn't a salary cap sound a bit too much like socialism? Ha, just kidding. Of course baseball needs a salary cap...coupled with revenue-sharing. I just can't get hyped up when so many teams have virtually no shot.
Actually that is far from the truth, which is actually surprising. In the last 25 years baseball has had 17 World Champion's. On the other hand Basketball has had 7 teams win the championship.

I think the one argument that could be made though in favor of a salary cap is that a lot of teams have to make major moves in the off season because the World Champ of a smaller market team just can not afford to keep everyone around in a few years. So, a team like the Florida Marlins is smart enough to move their soon to be or currently high priced players for future prospects that can get them back to a promise land. So if you limit the amount a team can spend, you will maybe see a team price a smaller market team out of that player's service.

In the end though if MLB does force a salary cap they need to be very strict about it like the NFL is. If it is like the NBA, teams will still spend lots of money and in the end they will have no problem paying the LUX tax.



In the last 20 years, the average payroll of the World Series champ has been: mean of 8.05, and a median of 6.

I'd be curious to see what the other league's results look like.

I still think there are too many teams in baseball with virtually no shot at a championship.

I don't know what the specific solution is, but whatever the NFL is doing certainly seems to produce an excellent product...on a side-note, my one big complaint with the NFL is the guaranteed big money for unproven rookies. Somehow that money should find itself to players who produce on the field.
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