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TheDeathlessHorsie · December 2nd, 2006, 02:47 PM

I was just talking about this with a guy at work yesterday. Baseball is the only US pro sport WITHOUT a cap.

Now being the capitalist that I am, I don't necessarily think baseball needs a cap ceiling, but I do believe that there should be at least a 30 million$ FLOOR for 25 man rosters. Even further, if you wanted to "weed out" the teams that aren't drawing, let alone competing, mandate that no team may spend LESS THAN 1/3 of the highest team payroll. The MLBPA would LOVE that, and you might even get them to agree to lose the stinkin DH. OTOH, that might lead to collusion to depress salaries again. I'm free associating here, of course.

But would it be THAT bad to lose a couple of teams??? It might improve the talent pool AND reduce salaries.

December 2nd, 2006, 02:47 PM	#3 (permalink)
TheDeathlessHorsie Member Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Pan-dimensional Transient Posts: 415	I was just talking about this with a guy at work yesterday. Baseball is the only US pro sport WITHOUT a cap. Now being the capitalist that I am, I don't necessarily think baseball needs a cap ceiling, but I do believe that there should be at least a 30 million$ FLOOR for 25 man rosters. Even further, if you wanted to "weed out" the teams that aren't drawing, let alone competing, mandate that no team may spend LESS THAN 1/3 of the highest team payroll. The MLBPA would LOVE that, and you might even get them to agree to lose the stinkin DH. OTOH, that might lead to collusion to depress salaries again. I'm free associating here, of course. But would it be THAT bad to lose a couple of teams??? It might improve the talent pool AND reduce salaries. __________________ "If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving an infant's life, she will choose to save the infant's life without even considering if there are men on base."