Salary Cap In Baseball

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Salary Cap in Major League Baseball

Salaries in Baseball are skyrocketing every year. Why would a salary cap be needed?

It would be needed to help keep ticket prices down, and help make for a more even level of

competition for all of the teams. A salary cap is needed to keep baseball thriving in the future, to

keep the game exciting and enjoyable to watch for every fan.

The four major professional sports in America are MLB, NBA, NFL, and NHL.

Out of those four, only Major League Baseball does not have a salary cap. A salary cap keeps

players salaries from getting to high because of the need to get your whole team under a certain

dollar amount set by the league. It would also keeps the league more competeive. Major

League Baseball needs a salary cap.

A salary cap would give every team a chance to build a competitive ball club. But teams

today that are not in a big market city have a disadvantage. Because these teams will never

reach the World Series until baseball owner?s do the right thing and agree on a better system of

revenue-sharing with a salary cap. A salary cap would help bring the competitive playing level

to a more equal level.

Some people say that small market ball clubs could field competitive teams without a salary-cap by developing a good farm system. But this theory has been disproved in recent

years. Montreal and Pittsburgh have two of the best minor league systems in baseball, but their

top young players only play for them a few seasons before becoming free agents and moving on

to teams with bigger payrolls. The Cleveland Indians though are a small-market team and they

seem to be able to have success by acquiring key players and through a successful farm club.


Players salaries are beginning to be more than some teams entire rosters. Alex

Rodriguez was recently given a contract for $252 million for 10 years. That is more than several
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