Baltimore Orioles
Boston Red Sox
New York Yankees
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Toronto Blue Jays
Chicago White Sox
Cleveland Indians
Detroit Tigers
Kansas City Royals
Minnesota Twins
Houston Astros
LA Angels
Oakland Athleticss
Seattle Mariners
Texas Rangers
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St. Louis Cardinals
Arizona Diamondbacks
Colorado Rockies
Los Angeles Dodgers
San Diego Padres
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It should be noted that St. Louis and Detroit each have $100 million payrolls and Milwaukee chose to go all-in this year knowing that Prince Fielder probably won't be back next year.
It should be noted that St. Louis and Detroit each have $100 million payrolls and Milwaukee chose to go all-in this year knowing that Prince Fielder probably won't be back next year.
It should be noted the Tigers are 10th in payroll, Cards 11th, Brewers 17th, Dbacks 25th and Rays 29th.
Salary cap doesn't prevent teams from building, it prevents teams from being able to keep the guys they built.
You get an allstar for 3 maybe 4 years and they go where the money is. If you don't have multiple people developed at the right time you've not no shot when only 4 teams in your entire league have a chance to make the playoffs.
A cap would let everyone have a chance at making a fan base excited in FA. If baseball wanted to keep everyone focused on baseball year round like football. This would need to happen. As a fan of the reds, in winter it's still who is going to score a TD this week. Not my team is a stud Ace Pitcher away from making a serious deep playoff run and there's a "cliff lee" or "Zach Grinke" on the market. The reds have no shot at that.
You say develop the talent in your minors and then trade for that pitcher.
I say, teams know you've only got that option so they'll ask for 6 of your best prospects for a pitcher with deminishing skills and you either take it, screw your team for many years to come because that was your shot and it's back to rebuild, or you don't and hope another offer comes your way.
Football is great because every team has a shot until proven they have been out matched or out coached.
Baseball has 8 total playoff spots. You can pensil in the Yankees, the Red Sox (baring a monumental collapse), and the phillies. That leaves 5 spots for 27 teams. Good luck!
Fixed it for you!Originally Posted by zodious
Comparing NFL and MLB is like comparing Paris Hilton and Sally Ride.
We definitely need a cap on these small market teams so they don't knock out our precious Yankees or Phillies.
A lack of a salary cap doesn't prevent small market teams from competing. It just makes it harder for them to do it.
League Team years Record Wild Card Division Pennants Titles MSL San Diego Padres 2034-2059 2,217-1,995 1 6 3 1 TBL Arizona Diamondbacks 2005-2018 1,216-1,053 1 9 6 3 TSSL San Diego Padres 2015-2021, 2024-2028 1,017-928 0 7 3 2 TSSL Texas Rangers 2029-2033 396-414 0 0 0 0
Not hard enough.
.......That's what she said!
1. 10th and 11th is still around the top third in payroll. You're not a poor team if you can afford Miguel Cabrera or both Pujols and Holliday.
2. The Brewers' window of opportunity is open for just this year unless they can somehow convince Fielder to stay for less money.
3. The Dbags (and the Giants and even the Padres last year) have benefited from the NL West's de facto salary cap: the McCourts.
1. Yes but you failed to point out the Tigers are barely in the top 10 or top third and I pointed out the rest of the playoff teams thus making a better point. I find that to be very relevant. Nationals have Jayson Werth so yeah, you can afford players while being a poor team.
2. The Brewers window of opportunity goes beyond this year. Don't be naive! One of the big bad monster teams will grossly overpay for Fielder, the Brewers will get compensation and then have money to spend more wisely. Man, that must suck!The Brewers got the best years from Fielder while one of the big spenders you complain about will get to enjoy his downfall while on the wrong side of 30. Brewers will be relevant for a while!
3. No, no and no! The Dodgers have still spent money (more than the Giants, Dbacks and Padres) and the Giants and Dbacks have benefited from good drafting and good pitching!
1. So...the Tigers and the Cards aren't the Yankees and the Red Sox. They're not the Pirates and the Royals, either. As for the Nats, isn't D.C. the fourth largest market in the U.S.?
2. You're the one being naive if you think the Brewers are getting adequate compensation in the form of draft picks that won't help the major league club until a few years later, that is, if they ever develop.
3. The Dodgers spent money, all right. Unfortunately, it was all funny money, since Frankrupt was betting that the money would come from a premature sale of the Dodgers' media rights that Bud Selig has since rejected. It also helps the Giants and Dbacks in the draft that the Dodgers have handcuffed themselves by spending below-slot with their picks.
1. It's stupid.
2. It sucks.
3. I hate it.
1. Pirates and Royals will be competing in a few years, the Royals sooner than the Pirates. The Tigers and Cards aren't the Dodgers either (I had to beat you to the punch). Rays and Dbacks are like the Royals and Pirates though. Your point is still weak.
2. No, I'm not being naive. The farm system is one, if not the weakest in all of baseball. They need draft picks more than any team I can think of. They're compensation will be two draft picks and saving $16 million to spend on the team. Fact remains that losing Fielder won't hurt the Brewers chances of remaining competitive for years to come as they have a great core of ballplayers.
3. No, the Dodgers being in the West does not help the Giants, Dbacks or any other team in the division. Just stop that stupid shit right there! Injuries is what killed the Dodgers this year, nothing more. Dodgers are a perfect example of why a salary cap isn't needed.
Because they're the only large-market team whose owner has been operating it like a small-market team? How else is it that they could only afford a platoon of Jay Gibbons, Marcus Thames, and Tony Gwynn, Jr. in left field (a position with typically high offensive expectations) to start the year?
Really? Pretty sure the Yankees filled their rotation with Freddy Garcia and Bartolo Colon. Keep trying!!
The Yankees would have had Cliff Lee in that rotation had he not taken less money to go back to Philly
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