What is wrong with baseball today? I think it is the lack of parity in the sport compared to football and basketball.
In any sport you play, either team can win on a given day, but in baseball you are more apt to find uneven teams playing each other on a regular basis. Where as in football and basketball the teams are on a more level playing field on a more consistent basis.
So what would make baseball more competitive? Have the owners and players stop their arguing and finally agree on a salary cap.
The Yankees this past week offered C.C. Sabathia a contract worth $140 million. The Marlins total team payroll for 2008 was just over $21 million. Now how can a team like the Marlins compete for free agents and the top talent with teams like the Yankees when the large market teams offer players such large amounts of money.
A salary cap would level the playing field and give the small market teams a chance to sign quality athletes. It would make every game of the 162 game schedule count. It would give reason to why the season is so long. No longer would you have the Kansas City Royals being the joke of the league. They would have the same chance at the talent every other team would.
We would no longer be shocked to see a team like the Tampa Bay Rays make it to the World Series and the Yankees wouldn't be paying $3 million more in luxury tax than the Marlins did in payroll.
Level the cap, level the playing field, better the game.
At least that's what I think, what about you?
Monday, November 17, 2008
Salary Cap In Baseball
Posted by uisjmc mcnace at 1:23 PM
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I think this argument loses steam after the Yankees miss the playoffs and the Rays make it to the World Series.
And if there was a salary cap, I think the quality of baseball would go down. You'd see crappy pitching from the 4+5 starters on nearly every team (because they can't hold on to them), and then crappy middle relief and pitching too.
It would basically take away from the depth of the great teams, and because of that, would hurt the game.
Sorry, that should say hitting and not pitching.
My only disagreement with your comment is that basketball and football have been able to make it work so what makes baseball different?
I feel this argument still carries strength even with what happened with the Rays and Yankees this past year because it is the exception to the rule right now.
Until teams like the Rays and Marlins make the playoffs on a regular basis and teams from New York, Chicago and LA don't make it consistently do I feel this argument would be dead.
A salary cap would only effect a handful of teams (Red Sox, Yankees, Mets, Cubs, Angels). And if some small teams can do well without spending much now (Rays, Twins), it makes me wonder how good they could be if they didn't have to play teams with $100 million plus payrolls. Good idea, even though it would make the Cubs worse...possibly.
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