Should There Be a Salary Cap in MLB?

This to me seems simple. It has to be yes. The New York Yankees spent $240 Million in 2009 to try and buy a championship. Is that what baseball has come to? Our national past time having teams buy championships instead of building through talent and earning them? Every year we watch teams like the Yankees, Dodgers, and Red Sox dump tons of money on players and the chances of winning a championship are still slim. Both the Red Sox and Dodgers were not in the World Series in 2009. Then you look at teams like Pittsburgh, Milwaukee, and Baltimore who struggle every year to grab fans and thus don’t have the money to spend on top notch players. Then the town protests when the team is horrible. If we look at Basketball, which recently implemented a salary cap, we see a lot more parody. If we look at the NHL which also recently implemented a salary cap we are seeing the big power houses being challenged by all the markets. And the best example is the NFL. Every year people try to guess who will win the Super Bowl and usually fail because any team has a chance. This is all because of the salary cap. Also keep in mind that a salary cap usually means there is a bottom floor. So teams like the Marlins who don’t want to spend a lot of money still have to spend a certain amount.

Do we really want to see the Pirate or Orioles win a championship? Sure, in the NBA there is a salary cap, but ratings were higher because the Lakers were in the championship not because the Bucks might get there. We always hear announcers talk about how it would help the sport so much if the 2 biggest power houses make the title games. Like last year for the NHL we had Pittsburgh and Detroit and ratings were sky high. So in baseball we can help this chance even more by letting teams do what ever they can to win a championship. If the Yankees want to blow $240 million on players that probably deserve it anyways, then let them. If they didn’t pay Sabathia all that money, then the Red Sox or Mets probably would of. And don’t tell me you can’t win a championship on small salary in baseball. Look at the Marlins and the Rockies. Both have done well on small pay rolls. The salary cap is not going to happen, too many owners like to spend money in MLB.