Salary Cap

[MikeT]

The thought of the day:
Does baseball need the salary cap?
Please post your thoughts and how it can help or hurt the Braves.

[Lenny]

Originally Posted by MikeT

The thought of the day:
Does baseball need the salary cap?
Please post your thoughts and how it can help or hurt the Braves.

Yes

Baseball needs a cap real bad.

Yankees = 200,000,000
Marlins = 14,000,000

Way tobig of a spread to make it fun to watch a team like the Marlins.

I would like to not only see a salary cap but also a minimum as well.

[TheDeathlessHorsie]

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.

[Lenny]

Originally Posted by TheDeathlessHorsie

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.

So if that were the case the minimum payroll this past year would have been about 66 million. hmmmm, that could work.

[Metaphysicist]

It couldn't hurt, I don't think. Seems like it would be hard to implement since the Yankees would have to jettison about $100 million in payroll to get under.

[MikeT]

I would love to see the Yankees or the Mets operate on a $100 million dollar cap!!!
Yes I think there needs to be a cap and a mimimum.
No less than $60 million and no more than a hundred million.And no player to make over 5 million a year..That is drastic but think about it , a ball player makes 10 to 100 times what most of us make and what does he do?Plays a game .

I love baseball,but people like Bora$$ have ruined the game.Andruw do you hear me???

[Lenny]

Originally Posted by MikeT

I would love to see the Yankees or the Mets operate on a $100 million dollar cap!!!
Yes I think there needs to be a cap and a mimimum.
No less than $60 million and no more than a hundred million.And no player to make over 5 million a year..That is drastic but think about it , a ball player makes 10 to 100 times what most of us make and what does he do?Plays a game .

I love baseball,but people like Bora$$ have ruined the game.Andruw do you hear me???

I wouldn't cap the individual salery just because it would make the teh GM's have to think about things a little more. If you go out and spend 20mil on a player, or 20% of your money then you have to realize it will make a weakness somewhere else. Then you hae to determine wheather a certain player is good enough to produce enough to cover that weakness. It could make things a lot more interesting.

[LongtimeBravesFan]

If you were going to put ina cap there would have to be some kind of grandfather clause to protect teams with high salaries under contract, such as the Yankees with ARod. Most of these will expire within a few years and everyone will be under the same rules.

I wonder how the cap would affect a player like Hampton. The Braves have to pay him some huge amount the last couple years of his contract. But since other teams paid him the first few years he was here, the team is averaging around $8 million a year for him out of pocket. Would the team have to count his entire salasry against the cap or just the prorated amount?

[TheDeathlessHorsie]

I'm a little vague on the NFL BA, but I THINK only the prorated salary counts against the cap. But don't quote me on that.

[VerbalK]

Yankees = 200,000,000
Marlins = 14,000,000

Way tobig of a spread to make it fun to watch a team like the Marlins.

Hmmm... Which one of the two one a WS most recently?

Salary caps do nothing but enrich owners and do nothing for parity. Football has a cap.

Of the last 20 year, we had 11 different NFL champs.

The NBA has a cap. In the last 20, we've had 6 different champs

Baseball does not have a cap. We've had 14 different champs in the last 20.


If you want to complain about ticket prices, vote with your feet (or your butts), but last I checked we live in America, and business charge as much as the can for there products. We pay, and will continue to pay whether we have a salary cap or not. I much prefer a system where the players get more of the rewards and benefits than some fat cat corporate exec like they do in the NFL.

[Yogi44]

On XM Radio's morning show, Buck Martinez threw out a figure. Based on this offseason's market, you can expect to pay a starting pitcher (any pitcher) between $750,000 to 1 million per win until the market corrects itself.

[VerbalK]

I pay $4.25 for coffee. Your point?