Offseason baseball Thread

A financial system that makes every team profitable. How horrible.

You can't have a salary floor with linkage to revenue.

 

The NFL has a salary floor. MLB could have one, too. It chooses not to, and you get teams pocketing revenue sharing money.

The goal should be a financial system that makes every team profitable and puts them on a level playing field. The NFL has that. MLB isn't even close.

 

Oof.

 

So you are expecting a sport that makes the majority of its money regionally rather than nationally to pool all that money and divided equally? Never going to happen and never should happen.

 

There isn't going to be a floor without a cap and there isn't going to be a cap.

 

No, I never said that. I'm sorry you are having such trouble keeping up.

I'm saying a sport that cannot pool all that money and divide it equally has an even greater need for a salary floor and cap than one that does have a more even division of revenue, such as the NFL. They could base it on the actual revenues of the existing teams, including revenue sharing money. It would be complicated and it would require teams to actually open their books to one another, but it would provide a more level playing field and it would keep teams that receive revenue sharing money from misusing it.

 

Because the teams with money like their built-in advantage and the low-revenue franchises like being able to slash payroll to line their own pockets when they feel like it.

 

I'm not understanding this one. They get rid of Span's salary, but they're taking on an overpaid 32-year-old who's coming off his worst season too.

But I guess they saw enough of Arroyo to think he had no future. Longoria will at least be a functional hitter next year. Still nothing this off-season that puts them any closer to the Dodgers, though.

 

Even numbered year?

 

Longoria is also under contract through 2023 at a total of about $93 million.

 

No, because players don't want a cap and don't want a floor because it sets the precedent for managing teams' spending.