2007 Mlb Teams Payroll
Should MLB baseball have a salary cap?!?
I know that the payroll of teams like the yankees and red sox is $218million and $136 million respectively. THAT is the reason why they have finished 1st and 2nd in the AL East every year from 1994 – 2007! They have the money to buy the best players, and essentially, buy championships! Its not fair, when you consider teams like florida, which has a payroll of $16million, less than what ARod makes!. Baseball, like the NHL, must have a salary cap!
Too many people equate “Salary Cap” with “Responsible Spending.” If it did, I’d be all for it, but it does not.
Has the NFL or NHL become an all-around “stronger” league with the cap? I’d say the fact that most of the Canadian teams have folded and they are struggling for fans in most U.S. expansion markets indicates “no.”
And is there currently more acrimony between players and owners than in the NFL? Look at the “franchise tag” which was supposed to be a “compromise.” Teams put the “franchise tag” on a guy and he cries like he’s being held hostage while guaranteed a Top 5 salary at his position….Owners meanwhile, whine about having to eat that salary… Nice compromise.
There’s a lot that’s broken in MLB economics, but a salary cap is not the answer…Not that you’d ever get one past the Players Union anyway…
Asterisk, for ALEA III, by Aaron Krerowicz