@SkenesNat@Vidor1 Since you brought up the NFL and NBA - the salary floor in those leagues is 90% of the cap, to think MLB players will accept less is insane. $240 mil cap = $216 mil floor. Your cheapskate owner is going to increase payroll by at least $130 mil just to spite the Dodgers?
Chris Bassitt, MLBPA executive subcommittee member, on the salary cap debate and why he's against it:
“The salary cap doesn’t fix anything. If you look at every major sport with a salary cap, we have the best parity. The salary cap is not the issue. Having suppressed salaries across the league so owners make more money is not the answer.
"If I would tell you in 25 years, the Dodgers would be going to 10 World Series and winning seven of them, is that an issue? Because that’s the Patriots. The Chiefs have been to what, six or seven? The Philadelphia Eagles have been to four or five. The parity in our sport is better than any other sport.
"We will make changes to try to help the so-called bottom teams out, but a salary cap and suppressing salaries and taking from players to try to help the so-called bottom teams spend more? That’s not the answer. Because if you’re trying to make a competitive league across the board, we have proof that every single league [has] less parity than ours. So how can you sit there and say a salary cap is going to fix this when every single salary cap sport has less parity than ours? It makes no sense.
"Again, the root of the answer is not the salary cap, and the root of why owners want a salary cap is not for competitive balance.”
This year’s Super Bowl was one long fart noise and this year’s World Series was one of the best ever but I had to spend the whole winter hearing about how MLB needs to remodel itself to be more like the NFL. How about no
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