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What Major League Baseball needs to do is establish a salary cap. A salary cap is a maximum dollar amount teams can spend on player contracts. A salary cap is necessary to maintain competitive balance in the league. Without a salary cap, large market teams, other wise know as the teams wit
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Major League Baseball is in desperate need of a salary cap because baseball player’s salaries are becoming extremely high. Do you strangle a person's ability to earn as much as they can for the sake of overall league competition, or do you allow the free market to perform and shy away from the might is right principles?
Baseball needs a salary cap to increase competition and that’s the bottom line. Where there isn't a team in the league that doesn't look for ways to manipulate the system to its advantage. In fact many teams go into spring training knowing they have no chance to win their division and in many cases their goal is not to finish last. The Marlins went from “big spenders” to “penny pinchers” in as little as a few months. Who is to say that big-revenue teams do not dominate, where spending money translates into winning baseball games, with the small market teams hanging on for dear life? In fact, of all the World Series winners in the '90s, only the Reds were not among the top five in payroll (Dorsey). There should be a salary cap so that all major league baseball teams have the same size payroll. According to Stan Savran, the co-host of SportsBeat on Fox Sports Pittsburgh, a salary cap is not a solution for baseball. When Kevin Brown signed a one hundred five million dollar contract with the Los Angeles Dodgers it brought an economic disparity to the forefront of baseball, separating the free-spenders from the small market frugal franchises (Dubow). What we have now in baseball, all sports really, is players don't trust owners, owners don't trust players' unions, and most importantly, owners don't trust their fellow owners.
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