Question of the week: do you care more about a floor or a cap?

[Brock Beauchamp]

This is the first DiamondCentric-wide poll, click into the link to vote. Do you care more about the next CBA having a salary cap or a salary floor? I know many of you want to hammer "both!", but ya gotta choose one.

Do you care more about MLB mandating a salary floor or a salary cap? - DiamondCentric

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[MadScientist]

Cap.  The unlimited payroll of the Dodgers is why small market teams like the Brewers fall short, no matter how well they are run.  The floor is just something to make a cap more palatable to the players.

[folly412]

Cap for reasons stated above. 

Other CBA wants:

• Balance around the posting process for Japanese/Korean players.  May be part of the cap or revenue-sharing calculation.  Another area where large market teams (especially the Dodgers) dominate given the fees, and have an incentive to keep going to shut other teams out of the international revenue.
• Service-time manipulation / Super 2 deterrents.  Also related to the floor.  This very likely has factored into our calculations the past couple of years.  Fans want to see exciting young players promoted, and small-market teams in particular have reason to keep them down longer to save money and gain more control.

[wntrtxn21]

A cap is desperately needed, but for anything to work you can't have one without the other.