Why Doesn't Selig have the guts to help Small market & small payroll teams?

Question

I think it's a disgrace watching teams like the Pirates, Roylas, Reds, Devil Rays & countless other teams never have a fair chance b/c the dear Commissioner Has no guts to make a fair profit sharing system to help these teams. I remember how good the Royals where. They used to give the Yankees fits in the 70's & 80's. The Pirates also had a rich history. Now watching them is sad to watch. I can imagine how older fans of these teams must feel. It's time for selig to grow some & make a system that will help all the teams in Baseball.

Answer 1

Baseball is a private business. Selig is a commissioner to enforce rules and regulations but he is not a CEO. Since baseball is a private business they make trades and offer large salaries as the traffic allows. But with the unions and the teams being sold or moved every few years you can't get a tight organization with great fan support like in the old days (prior to the 70s). You don't have players staying longer than a couple of years while the tickets are priced so high the average fan can't take the whole family, so until they adjust prices and salaries(no player is worth millions of dollars a year) the rich history won't continue.

Answer 2

Its not all Seligs fault. I think the system they have set up to get the money to the small market teams is pretty good, but they don't have any rules in place on what the money can be used for. Like other people said, the owners of the small market teams can just pocket the money if they want.

I can remember when the Royals were good, also. When Ewing Kaufmann owned the team he was the 1970's and 80's version of George Steinbrenner. He'd spend whatever amount of money it took to field a good team. For many years, the last one being 1990, the Royals had the highest payroll in MLB. So KC's problem isn't so much of a small market problem as it is a stingy owner problem.

Answer 3

The luxury tax assures that revenue goes to small market teams. Quite a few simply pocket the money.

Bud Selig is little more than a figurehead. The Players Union runs baseball. The reason there is no salary cap is due to the Union, not Selig.

By the way - that is why you won't see a "salary floor" either. Fehr has said that he'd never support a floor, because that would open the way for a ceiling.

Don't get me wrong - I'm no fan of Selig - but I don't believe in criticizing someone for something he has no control over.

Answer 4

Baseball has revenue sharing. I know. That probably got by you. The "small market" teams all get over fifty million dollars from the television contract. MANY of them dont even spend that much on payroll. These are not people who are broke. You have to have a ton of money to own a baseball team. They are people who choose not to spend the money on the product. When a team like the Pirates walks off with upwards of 80m from TV, licensing, luxury tax etc. and they do not improve the team on the field with better talent, they should forfiet the proceeds. It should NOT go into owner's pockets.

Baseball needs a salary floor, not a salary cap. Owners should never be allowed to let the team and its fans languish in mediocrity. Basebally has reached a level of parody it hasnt had in years. Different teams are winning the WS every year, and a couple of new teams get shuffled into the post season every year. If your team isnt participating the way it should, it's THEM you should complain to.

Answer 5

The Yankees dish out more to the Devil Rays in revenue sharing than the Devil Rays spend on payroll

Answer 6

No amount of money can compensate for idiocy in the front office. Nearly 20 years of Herk Robinson, Allard Baird, and now Dayton Moore as GM has done more harm to the Royals than the team's financial limitations.

Answer 7

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Answer 8

Hey...Ever hear of revenue sharing? Big market teams pay a luxury tax, which is distributed to the small market teams. The problem is, that they don't have to spend that money on big name players, and alot of them don't and just keep the money.