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Everyone should enjoy this season, because a long lockout is coming that will likely wipeout 2027. Owners aren’t f’ing around anymore. LAD went too far.
I 100% agree with you on this. Sad really, and if it comes to pass I hope it scares the living
out of the powers that control the legality of the NIL. It's a total mess, ruining college sports on so many levels. Top talent Freshman will have to go to mid major schools as more of the Blue Bloods want ready made men rather than boys to groom and then watch them go to big time programs 2 years later as a finished product.
+1I 100% agree with you on this. Sad really, and if it comes to pass I hope it scares the living
If college sports really want to be professional that means salary caps, multi-year contracts, and perhaps even a high school draft.
Imagine a HS draft? Holy crap, just the thought of it is crazy but who the hell knows.
The owners will use how the Dodgers use a flawed system to try to bring competition between small market teams with large market spenders into one that resembles the NFL and the players will not like it.
I expect to see a lockout and eventually an hard cap will be accepted by the players with having 3-4 years in league being when free agency can begin.
A high minimum salary and the minimum a team puts out in salary be very close to the top end allowed.
Service time manipulating ended because once a player is called up his MLB service time begins and continues even if he's sent back to minors. Giving the player a choice to stay with the team if he's not on the roster when his fouth year begins or opting for free agency even if he's under contract for that year or longer.
And possibly expanding rosters from 26 to 30.
The Dodgers have made the other owners, especially small market teams, know a hard cap is needed if every small market team can compete with teams like the Dodgers when signing player to fill out their roster.
If there is no hard cap then they are going to completely change the league and divisions
based on geography and $$$
Mets
Yankees
Sox
Phillies
cubs
Sox
Pirates
Reds
the kicker and giving Braves playoffs 48 of the next 50 years
Braves
Rays
Marlins
Nashville
based on geography and $$$
Mets
Yankees
Sox
Phillies
cubs
Sox
Pirates
Reds
the kicker and giving Braves playoffs 48 of the next 50 years
Braves
Rays
Marlins
Nashville
End deferred contracts
Mandate salary floors
International draft
Those 3 things would improve everything without needing a hard cap.
Mandate salary floors
International draft
Those 3 things would improve everything without needing a hard cap.
Well reasoned analysis. Getting to a salary cap will not be easy, and it will not come quickly. It will take a lot of concessions on the part of the owners. The players are united against a salary cap. They will die on that hill. So far, they haven't had to. We shall see.
By the way, I am by no means certain that the owners are willing to die on that hill. It would take a 75% vote. The big spenders would oppose. But the minnows (Pirates, Marlins, etc.) might also oppose. Their opposition would be to the salary floor, which would be part and parcel of any salary cap negotiation.
There is zero chance that the owners will unilaterally mandate a salary floor, without getting a salary cap in return.
Not sure how the international draft would help. There are already rules in place limiting the amounts teams can spend on international free agents.
You're probably right. It's very funny to watch these owners cry poverty. Nearly all of them are billionaires.
Miami made 317 and only spent 86 million
Maybe keep some of your young talent instead of trading EVERY star player away
Maybe marlins would get more then 2-3000 fans per game other then games vs Mets Yankees Red Sox and Phillies.
Maybe keep some of your young talent instead of trading EVERY star player away
Maybe marlins would get more then 2-3000 fans per game other then games vs Mets Yankees Red Sox and Phillies.
Hard cap (and deferred contracts are prohibited)
Hard floor
Both above are based on % of revenue dedicated to players
Owners will shutdown the sport for multiple years unless this happens.
If history is any indicator, no they won't. The biggest guys don't want a cap, and the littlest guys don't want a floor.
Dodgers at $752 million payroll and Yankees at $728 million in a class by themselves.
And Miami at $86 million and White Sox at $87 million payroll is a joke. A hard floor seems so obviously necessary for the sport.
A draft would be difficult to do. As we are still talking an education. Hard to believe, but some kids still value that.
Where did you get these numbers?https://sports.betmgm.com/en/blog/mlb/mlb-teams-highest-payrolls-2023-bm15/