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Originally Posted by GatorB
baseball will never have a cap. So teams like my Rays will occasionally field good teams but will eventually have to let go of their best players beause they can't afford them like the Yankees and Red Sox. And this is why basbeall is not longer America's pastime and will soon fall behind even the NBA in the coming years.
The teams on top want to keep their advantage. Many of the teams on the botton do not want a cap either. A salary cap will also mean a salary FLOOR which will require teams to spend a minimum amount. Teams on the bottom either can't or won't want to do that. The NFL gets many more BILLIONS in TV contracts than baseball does. So it's easy to have a $150 mil cap. most TV money in baseball come form LOCAL TV. Obviously a team like the Yankees pull in much more TV revenue than say Cincincatti since NY is so much bigger than Cincy is.
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The sad thing about MLB is that there is now money in fielding a losing team. The league has a luxury tax and those teams that spend more than a set amount on payroll have to pay that tax. That money is then distributed to those teams who are in small markets and have small payrolls. The idea is that the money will help them afford some better players and some teams actually use it like that, but other teams like the Pirates and for years the Brewers would just pocket the cash so they have very little incentive to field a winning team.