03-27-2008, 03:18 PM | #1 |
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wouldn't it be great if there was actually parity in MLB like there is in the NFL and NBA?
The same teams year after year at the top is boring. I actually forgot that the Pittsburgh Pirates existed until about a year ago. |
03-27-2008, 03:32 PM | #2 |
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I agree, a salary cap would do wonders for baseball.
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03-27-2008, 04:04 PM | #3 |
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That's funny. There are those teams that are pretty much non-existent to the casual fan. The Pirates, Nationals, Royals, Rangers, Brewers...Devil Rays would be if they weren't in the AL East.
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The Rangers and Royals are owned by guys with a ton of money. The Brewers were one of the most profitable teams in baseball last year. The Nationals are moving into a new stadium and should be okay. The Devil Rays place sucks so no one wants to go there but they have a ton of good young players. The one team I feel sorry for is the Pirates. Beautiful stadium but they put a terrible product on the field because of poor drafting or poor player development. Management there needs to get kicked in the balls and stop blaming everything but their own failure to field a good team.
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Part of what I enjoy about baseball is the ability to watch a player progress through the minors, get his chance in the majors, and then play with the big-league team for a long time.
I'd much rather have teams being able to pay their home-grown talent enough to be able to keep them for life than having teams struggling to hang onto their drafted players because they're at the salary cap. I'd be OK with a League maximum salary, with the sort of incentives the NBA has for players to stick with their original teams. The problem is, the MLB Players union would NEVER go for it.
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