How much CAP ROOM would you give to each team?
2007-05-08 09:09:45 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Sports ➔ Baseball
Yes there should be a slary cap in baseball, I think tha around 90 million is an appropriate number, the player salaries need to come down and this would be a way to make it happen also it would bring some level playing field into the game. I also think it would help bring down ticket prices which is another need of baseball. There is a reason the NFL has now passed MLB in popularit, in the NFL it is not the same teams winning every year, any year a team can come up and be a champion, it is not like that in MLB.
2007-05-08 09:19:17 · answer #1 · answered by Chris 6 · 1⤊ 2⤋
There should absolutely be a salary cap in MLB. Of course, the players union is dead-set against it as it means less money for them, but it would be good for the game. Consider the AL East- for the last 8 years or so, it's finished in the same order. The high-spending Yankees and Red Sox on top, the Jays and Orioles in the middle, and the frugal Devil Rays on the bottom. A salary cap would ensure that teams spend #1 wisely and #2 not so much as to upset competitive balance.
Salary caps work in hockey, football and basketball. There's no reason it wouldn't in baseball. I'd give every team a cap of $175 million- enough for the high-priced teams to keep their good players and for the lower teams to have something to shoot for. In the NFL, all teams spend up to the cap, even the small-market teams, and this gives incredible parity. Everyone has a chance to win. You can't tell me that, given a chance, the Royals or Pirates would be totally unable to spend $175 million. They make five times that every year, they just have business models which encourage low spending. This is obviously not working for anyone except the Twins, and not even for them anymore.
High-priced free agents would no longer be forced to choose between the Angels, Dodgers, Mets, Yankees and Red Sox. Everyone would have a fair shot at landing any player, and that is good for baseball.
2007-05-08 10:03:07 · answer #2 · answered by radreamer 1 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Nope. Baseball is doing well financially. The league is competitive with only a couple of exceptions. Money helps get the big name stars but that does not always mean that the teams will win. The Yankees haven't won it all since 2000. We have had a different World Series champ the last 7 seasons and the team with the best record right now is Milwaukee who is a mid to small market team. Cleveland, Minnesota and Detroit are all competitive and most of the NL Central could have been considered legitimate contenders this year. The Cubs and Dodgers have the means to spend big and yet we haven't heard anything significant from them for a few years. Could you imagine what the Devil Rays would be like if they had a couple of solid starting pitchers? They have several solid everyday players in Crawford, Upton, Young, (when he behaves) Baldelli, (when he's healthy) Wigs and potentially Dukes. Money helps, I'll grant you that, but it doesn't buy the World Series.
2007-05-08 09:32:18 · answer #3 · answered by Zim 3 · 0⤊ 3⤋
i like the current set up with the unofficial cap and luxury taxes for going over. it gives money to small market teams to use to maybe sign guys they normally couldn't afford with their normal revenues.
plus, if the brewers stay this good, and say they do win the world series, it would have been with the help of george steinbrenner.
plus, it's far more common for teams with lower salaries to do better than teams with super high salaries. hell, the yanks haven't won a world series since 2000. and haven't been to one since 2003 when they lost to a team with a combined salary that was less than half of that yankee team. money doesn't always buy success.
and that's in all sports. in 2003, when the pistons won, they had one of the lowest team salaries in the game. and they beat the team with the highest.
2007-05-08 16:47:50 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Ya but the only team that would be affected would be the Yankees since the cap would have to be around $150 million for the mlbpa to accept it.
2007-05-08 09:44:26 · answer #5 · answered by Ballzy 6 · 1⤊ 2⤋
No.
The players should get whatever they can. At least then the owners won't have that money.
What this country needs is a salary cap on CEOs and other such business-criminals.
2007-05-08 09:59:12 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
Absolutely ! $65 Million.
2007-05-08 17:53:56 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
No.
2007-05-08 09:49:12 · answer #8 · answered by Chipmaker Authentic 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋