I think baseball needs a salary cap like they have for football it would make it fair for all teams.?

Question

it would make all teams equal.

Answer 1

Yes, you are correct it would be nice so Boston and New York couldn't just buy title chances.

Answer 2

I agree. I like to watch both football and baseball and I have to agree that every game in football seems a bit more fair than baseball games. I love baseball, but teams that have more money do so well. Just look at Boston and New York. I am not arguing with the teams minor league system or history. But those two teams always do well do to the money they have. New York may seem to be losing it at the moment but that is because many of there high profile players are getting injured. Some players get way too much money by being contracted by teams who have so much more money.

These years, free agency has become one great bid. Those who lose out (Mets and Barry Zito) have to rely on pitchers and their farm system (seems to be working alright for the Mets, I wished Jorge Sosa pitched like he is doing now for the mets for the braves a year ago. Last year he pitched like crap.)

It seem in football that there towo different teams always end up in the super bowl (besides the Patriots - they get in because Tom Brady is so good). In baseball however, the rich teams usually win (2006 Cardinals = Big exception). However, the Cardinals are sucking right now because they did not spend anything last winter. A salary cap can prevent one dominant team (Yankees) from owning a division too long without enough competition (There is nothing wrong with owning a division (go Braves) but at least there should be some challengers (besides the Red Sox for the Yankees as they have the same amount of money)

Ah well, a fan can only hope for the best.

51.1 million dollars just to chat and drink cofee with Dice-K???????
What the h***!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Answer 3

It would not. The only way to make all teams "equal" would be to get rid of free agency, which isn't going to happen.

Now why will a salary cap not work? Of the top three teams salarywise, two of them are currently under 500. This millenium, between those three, who are near the top every year, 1 World Series victory and two pennants, including the WS winners. Plus, teams like the Marlins have won with small payrolls. A salary cap will not fix the inequality of talent in the MLB.

Answer 4

great answers from everyone...the main thing i have to say is that it's TOO LATE. if a salary cap existed now...hmm...it'd definitely be between 80-120 million. this idea would put both boston and new york in situations were they could pay only 7-8 of their players as well as get rid of farm league teams and still be over the cap. every single baseball players' contract would have to be completely redone, they would actually just have to have every player, farm league and big league become free agents and then just have a huge draft. that would probably be the most exciting thing in the history of the world and things would become a lot more equal but there is no way that is going to happen so there is no way a baseball salary cap will ever exist...unless teams are notified like 10 years in advance, which actually would work because then the league could just say, "you were warned" but even if they could say that, he wouldn't be saying that unless a franchise was completely ruined. so that would suck. i'm getting off tangent here. it is impossible for this to happen but i kind of agree....lol unless you consider that bigger market teams are going to need a higher salary cap anyways...it's alot cheaper to live ANYWHERE (besides chicago) in the midwest than it is to live anywhere in the northeast, therefore, players need more money in bigger markets, which (not exactly to an appropriate ratio) is already how it works. aside from all of this, just like in the nfl, there are other ways besides direct salary for a team to compensate a player for being on their roster. it catches up in the long run because it eats into the cap for the next year...you can prolong it all you want but it will catch up. as baseball stands right now, it still catches up to teams like the yanks and sox because while these contracts are huge for each year, they are also very long term deals, which means a team will be stuck with that player, paying them still 20M a year even when they're 37 years old and falling apart while in the nfl, a team can WAY more easily back out of a player's contract because of arbitration and other little verbage in the contract, so to sum this all up, it is about the same, it's just easier to screw yourself in baseball, there's more flexibility. the salary cap in the nfl is there to protect individual teams as much as it's there to protect the integrity of the entire league by maintaining and even playing field...i wrote way more than i planned but i think i did pretty good.

Answer 5

I will confess to a certain degree of bias in this regard, as I am a New York Yankees fan and obviously a salary cap would hurt the Yankees. However, I would not like to see a salary cap in the MLB. The salary cap would merely punish teams that are trying to field competitive sides without any benefit to teams like Pittsburgh and Kansas City that does seem to want to try.

Answer 6

it would, except the nfl only has to cap around 70-80 players. in baseball, a team must pay salaries for not only the 25 man roster, but about 4 other minor league rosters of 25+ people. thats y the mlb has a luxury tax implemented, for teams thatdo have large team salaries

Answer 7

Yes, yes yes!
In my opinion ALL the major sports need salary caps. It is the fans who ultimately pay the players with higher ticket prices and higher concession fees. Before long attending a live event will be cost prohibitive for the very people who really pay for it all.

Answer 8

No. What makes great teams in not rich owners, but great fans. the more fans that buy tickets for a baseball game, the more money goes to building a better stadium and signing better players. if the fans don't go to the games, then they don't deserve a winning team.

Answer 9

Oh yes, by all means, let's guarantee profits for the team owners.

A cap would solve nothing.

Answer 10

IT WOULD BE BETTER TO HAVE A SALARY FLOOR. NO
TEAM CAN HAVE A PAYROLL OF LESS THEN SAY 45
MILLION. THIS WOULD FORCE TEAMS TO SPEND THE REVENUE SHARING THEY RECEIVE RATHER THAN POCKET IT.