Salary Cap

[patrickgpe]

I really don't think a salary cap will help. The small market teams have a revenue issue, not a payroll issue. The LA dodgers signed a 25 year / 8.35 BILLION dollar TV deal in January. That is 345 Million a year to show their games. On the flip side the brewers get paid 12-14 million per year to show games. How does a salary cap fix this? I'm tired of those saying Mark A is cheap when other teams are basically getting 300 million+ more per year to broadcast their product over TV. fix that issue and good owners will invest more in their team and a salary cap won't be necessary. Also as I posted before, the concessions the owners would have to  make, would hurt the brewers (ie getting rid of arbitration) would affect the brewers worse than not having a salary cap. 

[Team Canada]

5 hours ago, Jopal78 said:

A salary cap and full revenue sharing  will happen.

Did you mean will never happen, or am I misreading the rest of your post?

[jay87shot]

Here are my thoughts

1)Put in a hard salary cap that is a little high to start and reign it in, say like $300 million but dont move it for like 3/4 years. The mlb could flip the script and incentivize teams that spend over say $200 instead of punish them with draft picks or more int. money.

2)Add in a salary floor, start at like $100 million and go up like 3-5% per year. I think there needs to be a better way to revenue share, however with TV contracts being so different and regional that is a tough idea. Maybe as we see more games on streaming the mlb can revenue share better to supplement the new market

3) Add 2 new teams and re-organize the divisions so there are 8 divisions of 4. This should create more revenue and excitement. Who doesn't love a good expansion draft.

4)Reduce arbitration control by 1 year, as much as it pains me as small market teams like the Brewers need the extra cheap control this is the easiest way to get the players union on board and have young stars making under $1 for the first 2-3 years isn't a great look.

5)Reduce contract lengths, I don't mind long deals but some of the 12-15 year deals we are seeing is ridiculous. Make it a cap of like 7 years and add in a clause that each team is allowed to have 1 "Franchise" player contract that can extend to like 10 years. 

6) All teams play 1 foriegn country series/field of dreams/little league. You could allow the top 5 teams that spend the most money the option to pick where they want to go (not who they play) as a little incentive for those top teams who will get hurt by a salary cap.

7)International point system, I don't have this worked out at all but essentially for players over like 21 each team gets like say 100 points for like a 5 year period. Then an independent arbitrator assigns all over 21 players a value, say like Yamamoto or Sasaki would have been 50 points and a lesser guy who has to play in the minors a while is worth like 5. That way the Dodgers don't end up with the Japanese all-star team in a couple years. I would add players between 18-21 get added to the mlb draft and int. players under 18 keep the same system of pool money.

 

[Jopal78]

3 hours ago, Team Canada said:

Did you mean will never happen, or am I misreading the rest of your post?

You got it right, should read “will never happen”