What Major League Baseball needs to do is establish a salary cap. A salary cap is a maximum dollar amount teams can spend on player contracts. A salary cap is necessary to maintain competitive balance in the league. Without a salary cap, large market teams, other wise know as the teams wit

Some baseball enthusiasts do not believe a salary cap is the way of ending the economic disparity in baseball. According to Stan Savran, the co-host of SportsBeat on Fox Sports Pittsburgh, a salary cap is not a solution for baseball. He claims what's wrong with the cap is that it doesn't take human foibles into account. What we have now in baseball, all sports really, is players don't trust owners, owners don't trust players' unions, and most importantly, owners don't trust their fellow owners. This is the case of rich people, worried that other rich people may be "getting over" on them, like to bend rules with their money. And so they expend more energy to control costs attempting to circumvent the rules of the cap than they do adhering to the spirit of them.

For years the NBA has flaunted about their salary cap, boasting that they were the best and brightest major sport employing it. Yet with the cap in place, NBA owners still trying to gain an edge on others "subscribed to the Wimpy School of Economics: I'll gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today! They began to offer contracts so back-loaded they could do wheelies. A dollar down, $50 million later" (Savran). The fact was that later came sooner than expected, and the league had to force a lockout to get restrictions on the salary cap restrictions. It's also happening in the most prosperous and successful league of all, the NFL. Where there isn't a team in the league that doesn't look for ways to manipulate the system to its advantage. The true "spirit" of the cap is to secretively work around it (Savran).

Small market teams have no chance of competing. Teams like the Expos that have watched great players get traded away to teams that could afford to keep them, have no chance of competing for a world championship. Can you imagine the Montreal Expos with the money to keep their former stars? Imagine a team with Randy Johnson, John Wetteland, Andres Galarraga, Moises Alou, and Larry Walker... The list could go on and on. The Expos have been the team most ravaged by the lack of spending power. In fact many teams go into spring training knowing they have no chance to win their division and in many cases their goal is not to finish last. Considering a number of players salaries came within a few million dollars of the Minnesota Twins entire payroll last year, and that more than half of major league teams have been eliminated from postseason consideration more than two months before pitchers and catchers report to spring training. Back in 1997 the former Florida Marlins owner Wayne Huzienga went out and bought a contending team. In fact, they won '97 World

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