My Rant Against The Champions And MLB In General

My bottom line is that the field upon which MLB teams play should be level…..all teams should have the same opportunity to acquire players and develop their teams equitably and by doing this maybe really compete. It is no surprise that the Yankees can buy any player they want. They can outbid any team they like. How can the competition – when you get to acquire the best players – be fair?? There have been years (like the last 9) where they didn’t win the series, but how many playoff series have they been in? Seven of the past 10 – if I counted right.

I like BOTH the ideas posted above – salary caps and revenue sharing – as possible ways of addressing the inequities in this system. Just think of how MANY teams in baseball could benefit from either of those changes. If those salary numbers are per year – it is just obscene…I mean REALLY……what the hell do you even DO with 33 million a year??? Has it been effective in Football? Then, it seems like something that could be done for the game.

Other ideas?? How about capping the number of times a team can win the championship?!? or handicapping the score?? Oh yeah – how about sharing players?? I know I’m being silly…..but it’s really tough for a team like our beloved A’s to be David to the Yankee’s Goliath.

It is the only major American sport without a cap.

On opening day theirs 20 teams that know they will not go to the playoffs because their a small market team. Royals, Pirates, Nats ect. What a shame

a salary cap would be great and all but sometimes a cap could get kinda annoying. You might need to sign a pitcher or something with limited cap space and it would kill depth. It would bring a whole new aspect to baseball. (Maybe if a salary cap was implemented, some GM might find out a way to find undervalued players and some guy could write a book about it called moneyball? I don’t know just some random thought.)

Personally I don’t think the mlb needs a salary cap. Small market teams shown they could win and big market teams shown they could lose.

Besides, the way baseball is right now, it’s more fun to watch the A’s beat teams like the Yankees with their payrolls.

Yeah, they spent the most on payroll. So what? They’ve also had the highest payroll for how many years? And how many years had it been since they last won a ring? 8-9 years? Not a stellar return on their investment.

They may have bought themselves a better chance. Maybe bought themselves competitiveness. But they still had to go out and play the games and win to get the ring… just like everybody else.

http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/index.php/the-super-yankees-theory

…if you knock that $50M off the Yankees payroll [from instituting a salary cap], that doesn’t mean they cannot spend it, instead it simply means they must reallocate it to another part of the game. Now they can really go over-slot on a consistent basis. Or, if a hard-slotting system is imposed, they can reap the international talent market like none other. Not to mention the amount of front office talent they can add to the fold. Ranging from scouts to quantitative analysis guys to medical staff and so on.

A simple salary cap wouldn’t do it, at least not by itself. It sounds like nothing short of extremely heavy revenue sharing would work.

…since they didn’t win a title this decade until now even though they had the highest payroll every year, it’s some sort of proof this is all somehow fair.

Uh, no. It just means they stunk at coming through in the end in spite of outspending everyone else by far. At least when the Red Sox were upping payroll to stay with the Yankees they actually won it all twice.

…I don’t know how they ended but this is what the payrolls looked like to start the season:

http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20090408&content_id=4170640&vkey=news_mlb&fext=.jsp&c_id=mlb

The Yankee’s going on a huge winning streak of 4-5 World Series and the casual fan just ups and loses interest in MLB.

I will bet you that the Yankees are as good if not a better team in 2010 then this year. I mean remove Damon and Matsui, add Lackey, Holliday a few bullpen arms all before they probably sign Chapman. That is an awesome rotation and an upgrade in the Outfield.

… if you consider how much they OVER pay for some free-agents. Honestly, you can look at their payroll as one huge numbers, but break it down to what they are actually recieving for their dollar and you can see that they are wasting as much money as they are probably recieving viable production for. ‘09 was obviously their best year in the past decade simply because they got their money’s worth. In the past few years they have spent a lot of money on the likes of Pavano, Clemens, etc. who never truly panned out while simultaneously inflating their payroll to another single large number. Mets are another great example of this. If THIS is paying for a championship, throwing large amounts of money at risks… then I say they can keep it. Let ’em.

the result? ONE ring.

for the sixth game of the 2009 World Series was $1000. That was the average.

I’ve heard that many New York fans fly to Florida and see the Yankees there. Much cheaper even with air fare, and better seats (in a so-described crappy facility).

The distortion between New York and the rest of the country is simply not going away. Unlike the NFL or the NBA, Major League Baseball has over a century of existence that affects a lot of what the Yankees can do, cannot be stopped from doing.

Interesting comments by all. thanks.