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Would a salary cap hurt or help the MLB?
I feel that it would definitely help to even the playing field from all markets. I dont know about everyone else but I grow tired of seeing the same 4-5 teams in the hunt for a title year in and year out. I can use the current daddy league of them all, the NFL, to show that a cap DOES work. Of course Im biased as my Reds are a small market team, and yes there have been small market exceptions like the Rays in 08, but shouldnt every market have high hopes for the upcoming season that extend, at least for a bit, past spring training? Caps put pressure on front offices to actually do their job properly to field a good team rather than just haveing to rely on the base population of a market and how much money that brings to the table. How many of our jobs would be easier if we didnt have finances to worry about? Funny thing is when I was about to submit this question, the suggested catagory for this question was fantasy sports….
Last 26 Super Bowl champions (1985-2010):
49ers — 4
Cowboys — 3
Giants — 3
Patriots — 3
Broncos — 2
Redskins — 2
Steelers — 2
Bears — 1
Buccaneers — 1
Colts — 1
Packers — 1
Rams — 1
Ravens — 1
Saints — 1
(14 franchises, of 32; 7 with multiple titles)
Last 26 World Series champions (1983-2009, no 1994 champion):
Yankees — 5
Blue Jays — 2
Marlins — 2
Red Sox — 2
Twins — 2
Angels — 1
Athletics — 1
Braves — 1
Cardinals — 1
Diamondbacks — 1
Dodgers — 1
Mets — 1
Orioles — 1
Phillies — 1
Reds — 1
Royals — 1
Tigers — 1
White Sox — 1
(18 franchises, of 30; 5 with multiple titles, only one with >2)
The NFL may have more parity as claimed, but it surely cannot be proven by a review of recent championships. And I’m not well-versed in NFL history, but those teams listed above don’t appear to have any recent expansion franchises among them (the Ravens used to be the Browns), whereas two of MLB’s 1990s expansion teams have hoisted the trophy, one of them twice (and the other two have been to the World Series, finishing second).
There are other factors at play here, particularly the NFL’s strength-of-schedule jiggering, which works to make doormat teams look better the next year if they give it a try, which MLB does not do; the baseball schedules are mostly equitable between franchises.
The problem you’re trying to frame isn’t that “big market” teams snatch up all the talent — no, the core issue is that the YANKEES have too much financial flexibility. And I won’t argue against that being the case (I won’t agree with it either), but trying to apply a broadband solution for what is a very specific problem is not a good idea. I realize no one, no one in an official capacity anyway, can say “the Yankees spend too damn much” regardless of the veracity of that notion, but even if that were so, it doesn’t mean all of MLB has a problem, because MLB does not. (This is akin to the fans who thought the intentional walk — which is not mentioned in the rules — should be abolished because Bonds was too prone to drawing them. It was an issue involving one player, and a faction of fandom wanted Something Done about it, even though it would have affected everyone. Inane.)
Look, a salary cap would simply be another constraint placed upon GMs that they would have to adapt to working with in the course of their duties. It would make their job MORE complex; and it would, undeniably, have unintended consequences, though mostly from the fan’s point of view. Imagine the trade deadline is coming up, the big free-agent-to-be slugger is available, and your team could REALLY use his bat — but his salary wouldn’t fit under the cap, so the deal cannot get done, and your guys finish third by a game or two (or, perhaps, your favorite gets sent away in the deal in order to make the cap constraints work). (Does this make fans happy?)
The other immediate effect of a cap is that it transfers more wealth into the owners’ pockets, basically guaranteeing them profits. Profits are good, sure, but they should be EARNED, not guaranteed. This results in a large transfer of wealth from the players to the owners — don’t for a microsecond be naive enough to think “ticket prices will come down” because that will not happen, never has, and the very notion is against all economic theory, practice, and history — and, while that may be, I attend a game to watch the players play and not to watch the owner own, so it does not bother me a whit that the players rake it in.
When the Twins make their announcement, probably on Opening Day at the new park, that Joe Mauer has signed a ten-year contract, think about how that might (or might not) have happened with a cap in effect. Or just curse the Yankees for generally being the Yankees, as that’s another good baseball tradition.
Hurt? No, it’d just be a nuisance and have myriad extenuating consequences. Help? Not really, not in the ways most think would happen. Currently MLB is doing just fine without one, and no team* is going bankrupt.
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* The Rangers are in a miserable tangle right now, but that’s due to the owner’s incompetence and intransigence at dealing with his own finances beyond baseball, not for any specific problems with baseball operations. The divorces looming over the Dodgers and Padres ownerships are similarly unpleasant messes but not due to how the teams are doing.
ALDS Post-Season Call: NY Yankees vs. Minnesota (It’s about The Money) (Jock Thompson) – TYT Sports
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