Is it time to establish a salary cap in the MLB?

[Bombers]

But in the NFL you have a salary floor which requires all teams to spend X. I agree that the same requirement would be needed in MLB.

 

I don't. In the NFL, the rookies and young players are paid incredibly much more than in MLB. A salary floor only encourages prolonged mediocrity. The Astros and Marlins are going to be better off in the long run for completely tearing apart their teams. With a salary floor they would have been required to sign pointless veterans just to meet some arbitrary number.

As baldkin said, the smaller market teams would be getting significantly more in the TV money as they would now be getting shares from all teams. A cap cannot exist without revenue sharing of TV money and you cannot share money without a salary floor (otherwise Loria and others would just pocket it all) ...

 

One of the original articles posted: http://www.jsonline.com/blogs/sports/200738381.html showed how the Dodgers will take in $188 million per year and the Brewers will take in $21 million. That is beyond lopsided and IMO simply ludicrous. I just cannot get behind that unbalanced of a distrubution.

[logan82]

The biggest problem and the thing that makes MLB so much different from other major sports is the extensive minor league system. MLB salaries are only part of the cost of running a MLB franchise.