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Yavin4

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15. The problem isn't a salary cap.

Reply to Auggie (Reply #14)

Tue Oct 17, 2023, 01:43 PM

Oct 2023

The problem is that there are owners who don't put the money back into their teams. A $30 million payroll for a professional sports team today is absurd.

Also, the Mets were horrible this year while the Rays with a payroll in the bottom 25% went to the playoffs. There's no correlation between what a team spends and if they win.

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The crying and gnashing of teeth about how unfair the MLB playoff format is needs to stop. [View all] Yavin4 Oct 2023 OP

Baseball is a game of streaks ... Charging Triceratops Oct 2023 #1

Go Diamondbacks! MLAA Oct 2023 #2

True. But if the teams are relatively equal going in, no one would complain. Yavin4 Oct 2023 #3

How are you gonna design a schedule for good teams to play only good teams??? awesomerwb1 Oct 2023 #5

Relegation! Yavin4 Oct 2023 #6

You could find the same argument for every team in MLB awesomerwb1 Oct 2023 #4

You can definitely be "overrated" in MLB. Yavin4 Oct 2023 #7

All teams play really bad teams throughout the year, every single one of them awesomerwb1 Oct 2023 #8

How is it silly? Yavin4 Oct 2023 #9

What's really needed: a true SALARY CAP and real REVENUE SHARING Auggie Oct 2023 #10

MLB does have a very progressive luxury tax system Yavin4 Oct 2023 #11

A luxury tax means nothing to a team with billions Auggie Oct 2023 #12

The Mets paid over $30 million in luxury taxes. Yavin4 Oct 2023 #13

So? Auggie Oct 2023 #14

The problem isn't a salary cap. Yavin4 Oct 2023 #15

The Athletics are an exception. Teams like Cleveland will never have the financial resources ... Auggie Oct 2023 #16

Out of the top 10 payrolls, 6 teams made the playoffs. Yavin4 Oct 2023 #17

I can't fix poor ownership and management decisions ... Auggie Oct 2023 #18

In the last 10 years... Yavin4 Oct 2023 #19

Disagree, Yav ProfessorGAC Oct 2023 #20

Point taken. Yavin4 Oct 2023 #21