Why Baseball DOES NOT NEED THE SALARY CAP!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 16 ก.ค. 2024
- In this video, I explain why Major League baseball does not need a salary cap, and how baseball stars like Bryce Harper and Mike Trout don't have as much of an effect on their team as they would in other sports.
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Does baseball need a salary cap? Why or why not? And also to everyone complaining that I didn’t talk about the NHL, it’s because I don’t know that much about the NHL, and I didn’t want to sound like I did and say something false.
Dawson Wright no way
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Heck no
Kinda disagree because I'm a rays fan and our owner basically spends as less as he can and we have no shot cause as soon as big star player contract is about to expire we trade them same for marlins if we have a larger salary cap to keep it in higher millions but we can add a option for teams to offer above maximum to stay but you have to force owners to spend max or close to max so they don't keep rest to themselves it gets annoying to see our teams basically become quaddrouole a
I don’t but haha
mlb needs a salary floor to get cheap owners to pay more to increase competition
As an A's fan, I fully agree. I am so tired of the A's raising such amazing players just to let them go because the ownership is just too damn cheap!
99tjpro they have the luxury tax which is kind of similar
99tjpro that’s like 90% of the salary cap which the PA would definitely decline that
Same could be said about Nutting and the Pirates
@@BroadswordMedia I'm an Angels fan and look forward to what the A's bring to the field every year. Couldn't agree more with the salary floor. :)
All I want is a reasonable owner for the Pirates
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lmao. ok.
Not even really his fault. We aren't on a level playing field.
I second that. What the Pirates need is a consortium/ownership group with deep pockets and more than anything, truly committed to winning it all. Pittsburgh has recovered (somewhat) economically from the collapse of the steel industry of the 1980's (around the same time the Pirates almost left) and I think they could take a page from the book of how the Red Sox became a perennial power. At least the Pirates have a crown jewel of a ballpark. Now to build a team worthy of PNC Park.
You only say this because the Angels have one of the highest payrolls
I’m a twins fan I see the struggle
The worst payrolls are
Cincinnati
Minnesota
Milwaukee
Tampa
Oakland
St. Louis
KC
Seattle
San Diego
All of these teams struggle regularly bar the Cards
Meanwhile the Yankees in the 2010’s were the first time since ruth that they didn’t make the World Series
2019 playoffs had 3 AL small teams and they won 1 Alds game combined the NL had the cards who are essentially the spurs/Pats of the MLB they are the only exception
It’s hard to watch 4 years of 100+ losses just to finally have 162 watchable ones and when you finnally make the playoffs be destroyed by NYY after 3 games
Giancarlo earns about as much as the starting lineup for the twins
That is something that small market fans have to deal with and it kills the cities interest in the sport
We’ve had 2 playoff games in a decade and it’s finally taken its toll
But the MLB doesn’t care about small market teams much like you
This was my first fucking thought. Yes it needs a salary cap. Because right now its like Ohio state trying to play against the Green bay Packers.
Also just because you are able to give someone near 300million cough cough Albert Pujols cough cough that does NOT mean you're a for sure contender. Also drafting and coaching matter so much.....
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Coaching matters immensely in NFL, quite a bit in the NBA and the MLB is front offices that run efficiently and play moneyball off analytics
Yes, it needs a cap, but it also needs a salary floor, so teams can't decide to spend $60M and hope to get lucky. The salary cap in basketball doesn't work because there are too many exceptions. The salary cap in football WORKS. There's no comparable position to quarterback in baseball, and that's why the Patriots are there every year. But in football you're good or bad based on merit, not on how much you spend.
Baseball needs the salary cap but it will never happen due to the lack of revenue sharing and likeliness that it causes another player strike. The difference between WS teams like the 15 Royals and 16 Cubs is that the Royals could never afford to keep that team together whereas the Cubs can and could create a potential dynasty. It’s unlikely a team like the Rays or Royals will ever have a dynasty because other teams can always pay more for their players.
Thanks for making quality MLB videos, that beginning reaction though! 🤣
The mlb doesn’t need a salary cap it just needs the luxury tax. Nice video.
Grant Henderson
It has a luxury tax. It doesn't work. The Yankees have been over the tax threshold for 15 years because the tax isn't enough to dissuade big market teams from going over the way it does small market teams. Dodgers have been over 4 years in a row and only owe $36 million. Chump change for the most expensive team in the league
Fat Rugged Stacks yea and look at how many years the Yankees have been competitive the last 15 years. They always go buy old proven players that have no future. They just started drafting players Judge Gardner etc to make them competitive. The thing with no cap is once a team gets on top, another team can dethrone them easier by spending more. Perfect example is the patriots. Takes a lot of luck, aka eagles, I mean the mvp gets hurt and they still won the Super Bowl, to dethrone them. In baseball a team can just buy a few hitters and some pitchers and dethrone whatever dynasty exists, if you want pay the luxury tax that is. Perfect system.
Perfect example is the astros just bounced into existence the last couple of years because the team decided to spend some money and buy some pitchers. Now look, a new contender. That’s good for sports in my opinion.
Grant Henderson
You can continue to say that a team can beat them by spending more but look at the differences in the amount of money each team makes. Yankees make over $4 billion each season while the Rays are making $900 million in the same time. Proof the luxury tax does not work is that the Yankees have been over for 15 straight seasons, finally deciding to cut their spending. Small market teams are at a huge disadvantage because they make far less money and there's no limit to how much each team can spend every season. There's a difference between buying a few players to beat the next team that season and having the money to keep a dynasty. Only a few teams have the money to keep one going while others are forced to sell their franchise players season after season, and that's because there's no hard cap.
Fat Rugged Stacks alright man all I can say is watch the video. It makes sense. Look at the last few champions. Baseball constantly has new teams popping up, and it’s still possible for teams to compete and not have to pay luxury tax. Braves, Phillies, Brewers, Cubs, Astro’s.
Dawson I have a vid idea (Just so you know it's just an idea you don't have to do it) Octavio Dotel and Edwin Jackson they've both played for 13 teams and Jackson has a chance to play with more. Anyway I thought it was an interesting topic and I would love to hear their career stories also I enjoyed the vid and personally don't think baseball would be the same with out a salary cap
Marty Coleman Edwin Jackson just broke the record
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Did a massive report on the MLB salary cap debate for my economics class a few years back and came to the same conclusion.
Finally a new video
This rightwing pro-business American idea appears to be coming to European football (the real kind, known as "fútbol" in some parts of the world), when you look at revenues generated per match of all the football leagues in the world, the MLS ranks 8th which is remarkable.
But when you look at average player value on Transfer Market, it ranks 12th behind leagues like Russia, Belgium and Austria, which makes sense seeing the MLS is seen as a joke and they're clearly not spending that money on their players.
Nah MLB doesn't need a salary cap. Teams who pay a single player $500 million are essentially throwing their money away. It's pretty obvious that baseball teams don't thrive off one guy making bank with a bunch of mediocre players who don't contribute. The 2010 Giants are a pretty good example of a bunch of misfits who got lucky without a player making a substantial amount more than the rest of the team.
bunch of misfits and Buster Posey.
E And two dudes named Sandoval and Lincecum
Well look at the A’s and Rays. Both teams have very little money yet r very good. They don’t have very many elite superstars, yet r very good teams
I'll curious on your ideas on how to fix the attendince issue in the MLB
no reasonable person would ever say baseball doesn't need a salary cap, half the markets spend 100 million + more than the other half of markets. Theres a reason the NFL is succesful and baseball can only fill stadiums in a few cities.
Great explanation. I'm in agreement.
I have no skin in the game in terms of wanting one, my question with your example though @dawson is you mentioned in another video about the wackiness of divisions, could that be a factor in who showed up as WS champs over the years previous.
Nice vid man you rock
preach Dawson
Makes a good point.
Amazing video
The nba's issue was caused by a large spike in the salary cap, which gave the warriors juuuust enough space to sign durant.
The NBA’s soft cap is no different from the MLB’s luxury tax. For example, as you know, teams have a limited amount they can spend with a salary cap. With a soft cap, teams can go over that salary cap limit, but will have to pay a luxury tax. In the MLB, there’s a certain amount of money u can spend before having to pay a luxury tax. It’s the same thing
Dude you changed my mind again! haha
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I’d hardly say that salary caps fail in all leagues. While the NBA has pretty much failed, I don’t think I would say that the NFL or the NHL has. Sure, the patriots have been contenders for so long, but the last five Super Bowl winners are the Eagles, Patriots, Broncos, Patriots, Seahawks. Only one team repeats, which isn’t bad. Who knows, maybe the Cubs or Astros will win another World Series in the next five years even without the salary cap. Then, the NHL. While the Stanley Cups winners in the last 10 years don’t vary much, with Chicago, Pittsburgh, and LA winning most of them. But, look at the teams that have made it and lost in the last 5 years: Vegas, Nashville, San Jose, Tampa Bay, and New York. I wouldn’t consider any of those teams big market teams, aside from New York. The salary cap’s goal was to help small market teams stay competitive and offer a level playing field, which it has done a decent job at doing. I don’t think they should have it in the MLB, but it isn’t useless
Plus in the nhl a player usually stays with one team making it more competitive, they don’t leave there team
also to point out as well... you mentioned 'dynasty teams' in other sports. Players want to play for the patriots, the steelers, etc.. so if they want to win they'll sign for a little less, or work out a deal that's softer on the cap in order to play for them. Few players want to play for the Browns.. the Pirates..
Makes a lot of sense, it is the owner who agree to pay 30 million dollars to a player of 40 years. So I loved your explanation, I was one thought that salary cap could improve teams, but actually that limits the liberty of the owners to make their own decision with their money. great video.
You should do a video about Cleveland being cursed in mlb nfl nhl etc
The would u rather play in new york or tampa? Well new york is too big of a city, the fans are quite harsh, and what if I was from florida and got a chance to play for a hometown team I would like to choose that.
Can you do video on luxury tax? I’d like to know more and google isn’t helping. Also subscribed
What's the difference between a salary cap and luxury tax
Yes it’s true that there’s been diversity in the World Series, yet in the playoffs, it’s been relatively stagnant. You know the Yankees, Dodgers, Cubs have legit playoff potential. If they flop for any reason, it’s much easier for them to dip into free agency to right the ship. If, say, the Reds went for a deep playoff run and flopped, now they HAVE to spend a few years rebuilding because they can’t compete for top tier talent unless it’s from within the system. A competitive salary cap and increased revenue sharing would create more teams trying to be competitive, and free agents wouldn’t be getting shrinking salaries, which will only increase now after the past FA crisis
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Salary caps don't necessarily fail in other leagues, it's just the nature of each sport. Baseball is the one sport that is truly a team game. Having the best player in the league on a certain team isn't a guarantee for success like it is in football and basketball. The Angels have sucked for almost the entire decade despite having Mike Trout. And look at the Rangers when they had Alex Rodriguez.
Fair enough mate
Clint Arnold lol its not a team game. Football one blocker messes up the whole team messes up. You gotta connect with the WRs and Oline gotta play together. Its not that the Patriots have the best players its they develop the players great. Its rare the see teams like the Patriots in the NFL
cali1cali But baseball is a team game too
Reinthaler other then pitcher-Catcher no its not. And I love baseball
cali1cali It is a team sport because you have to have the whole team work together to score runs (nobody relies on solo shots every game), and you have to have the whole team work together to get outs (not everyone can rely on strikeouts every game either).
The salary cap worked for the nhl, why not apply something similar?
The NHL Salary Cap works, they have a great competitive balance.
Agreed, New York Yankee alway seem yo be in on every single big name free agent player if the player want to come yankee they will… nobody want to sign with team like blue jays or team like that…
Yep $ talks. NYM and NYY pay over 300 mill a yr and get wins.! The teams under 100 mill SUCK! Simple
I was watching a MLB tonight commercial and Kershaw was in it and I swear Kershaw sounds a lot like Dawson Wright like a less interested Dawson Wright not when he is like interested and loud.
If the NFL didn't have a salary cap it would be completely uncompetitive... The MLB definitely needs one, the fact that there are clubs with 5 times the payroll of other teams is insane, how is that fair?
The reason why we need a salary cap is because if your baseball team is a small market team then u know how much of a struggle when u can’t afford any of ur pieces that were good. U just lose them to the yankee/Red Sox or other team. Teams like the royals win a championship every 30 because we can keep all of our good pieces
It would still be the same
I thought about this, and I realized a salary cap wouldn’t actually hurt, but I don’t think it’s needed. Although I think they need a salary floor to help the league to be more competitive. The luxury tax does work, but not enough. And no I’m not a low market fan, I’m actually a Giants fan and they have the 5th highest payroll
Honestly after this video I say no salary cap. Big switch hours right now
lol the russell westbrook clip
I mean the reason why the NBA and NFL have the same teams winning all the time is because unlike the NHL, they don’t know how to run a salary cap.
1:35 thx for showing that clip
Yes
Nah
No
Please do a video on why baseball needs a salary floor long before they even think of a cap.
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So the World Series is the Red Sox (#1 payroll) vs the Dodgers (#3 payroll). Not saying that large market/big payroll = World Series every year, but it’s definitely a HUGE advantage. The Dodgers were able to add Manny Machado after their SS went down for the season, where a small market team would not have had the financial resources to do something like that.
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This would be a much better argument if all markets had the same money, the problem is that teams like the Yankees simply will always have more money than other teams in the league, that's not fair
And the fact that they are in the New York Market will entice players to sign in free agency, even if there is a salary cap, that’s just how it is man
Tampa is warmer or am i missing the point
You’re missing the point
Angels fan... No wonder you dont want one you cheer for a team that benefits from not having one.
Rank the teams at the moment
Your arguments against the salary crap working in other sports are soft as shit. Also notice how often the big markets (most money) win all the time in baseball? And I say that as a Red Sox fan, it’s unfair.
Yeah he doesn't sound very intelligent at all.
what the fuck is a salary cap? why can’t it just be simple of what y’all trying say
True
It does need a salary cap because small market teams can not compete with big market teams. For example the best the pirates can buy is Corey Dickerson, and the Yankees can buy people like Giancarlo Stanton or whoever they want.
You still feel the same now that Dodgers had the most rediculous team ever and went and picked up Scherzer as well?
How are small market teams supposed to compete with a $267 mil payroll ?
Statistically speaking, if you’re out of the top 7 spots in MLB payroll you have a slim chance of actually winning it. It happens, but it’s rare. Baseball absolutely needs a salary cap OR a HARD luxury tax….AND a floor. Leave it as it is and there won’t be the rest of the league to complete with the handful of large market clubs with a fuckton of money.
People only focus on how big market teams r always successful. A salary cap will help smaller market teams a lot and hurt big market teams
Maybe a salary floor? I’m just sad that my Pirates will never really be competitive because the market is small and our owner is greedy. With other sports at least everyone is on a somewhat equal playing field. In the MLB it is difficult to win anything without being a huge city with a large budget.
Didn’t even mention how well the salary cap works in the nhl and the salary cap for nba is huge so you can basically say there is none
Did you read the pinned comment?
If u put in a salary cap, it helps small market teams and hurts big market teams. U don’t put in a salary cap, it helps big market teams and hurts small market teams so it doesn’t all the sudden balance things out
They need a Salary cap. This why I hate baseball.
I'd rather play baseball in Tampa Bay because it's an hour from Walt Disney World and FL has no income tax.
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It wouldn’t work with the minor league system. Would the cap be on all the players in the minors and majors? Would it just be the majors? How does it work with players going up and down?
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I don't think individual people should have a salary cap, but teams should have caps so that teams like New York or Los Angeles can't just throw more money at everything because they make more from their region
I would agree that a salary cap won't work as the idea of it should work. I am for player contract year limits, as in the NBA, they have up to 4-5 year limits. That way, a team isn't forced into signing a player for 10 years just because the player wants a 10 year deal. Also, it could keep players motivated for another deal in the future.
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Baseball does indeed need a salary cap. The 5 teams you mentioned who won the world series? Hell, going back to 2009? Every single one of them were top 10 in payroll in their respective seasons besides the 2015 Royals (13). If you go top 15 to be upper half of baseball, only one team in the last 25 years did it with a payroll below 15th, which was the 2003 Marlins. Baseball is a game that lends itself to parity by design, but there's obvious favoritism toward teams who play in bigger markets and have larger payrolls to work with.
Probably because they added pieces at the deadline. Just because a team has a top 10 payroll doesn’t mean they’re the Yankees
When you said “ would you rather play in Tampa bay or New York” I would rather play in Tampa because the weather is nicer by the way the baseball salary cap is stupid
Yea, lets see you say that if you were a pirates fan
No. MLB does not need a salary cap because there is no money issue owners don’t need to give the players the money but they chose too
NHL and NBA take note
The NHL has a salary cap and its works
Quinn Miller sometimes not always
It would help smaller market teams and hurt bigger market teams
Well as an A's fan I do see the league as unfair. The A's have had among the lowest payrolls in baseball for this entire millenium and as a result, once their players which they are so smart to pick up through drafting and raising in the farm system and minor leaguers they got in trades who grow into their own in the majors are suddenly great players, they just let them go. The A's seem like they have become the Minor League team of all the other Major League teams because they can't afford to keep their best players. It's so frustrating and I do believe if a Salary Cap did exist, they'd be able to keep some of their players as a result of there being a spending limit for all Major League teams.
BroadswordMedia I feel ya here. I’m a pirates fan
This is why the mlb ratings have gone down because I'm tired of the same teams getting there every year in hockey you see it but there are other teams there too. But you want to get people in Pittsburgh or Kansas city to watch more make baseball more competitive
Baseball should have a salary cap. It's the only major team sport that doesn't have one. The Yankees and the Red Sox sign most all the big-name players and there needs to be something that can curtail that.
Joseph Bailey a salary cap isn’t just gonna make low market teams sign big name free agents
LOL i did a speech on this for school
Yes they need a salary cap. Patriots as an example was a bad example because many players took massive pay cuts to keep the team together instead of making millions more elsewhere. Teams like the pirates, Tampa bay ect who can’t afford bigger names players have no chance. Pirates haven’t been relevant since the 70’s for example
The MLB doesn’t need a salary cap. The luxury tax works and it might be all they need, but a salary floor wouldn’t hurt
What about we have transfers no trades just a idea
AlphA T What do you mean by that?
Although I will say that I absolutely hate that 1/3rd of the teams actively tank for the number 1 pick it’s the same problem that makes the nba unwatchable for me
Your point was Great. Nice video. People are getting too emotional and not using logic. Otherwise nobody would want a salary cap.
That comment about the browns hurt my soul
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Maybe instead of a salary cap baseball could cap the number of of years on player contracts. So instead of a 10 year $300 million dollar contract. Maybe cap the maximum amount of years on a contract to 5 or 6. Then the teams that pay those $300 million dollar contracts could get out of them quicker.
i think for the fans sake they should bec a team can spend way too much on a bust leaving them in the dust for a decade.... the 2018 nyy have a 600 k judge and a 30 million stanton.... if he can't perform you waste 300 mill that u can keep to pay torres in 5 years... as a nyy fan they should..... NOT for the players or owners but for the sake of a team that if this dude busts u can rebuild within 2 years instead of 5 or 6
NYY chose to take those contracts
Dawson Wright exactly.... i dont like that and i wish they were limited to save money to pay other players.
The league has more than enough money to pay Barolo his 40 mil, fuck the salary cap
Pay players off their performance. Gives them a reason to hustle. They don't get the money in their contract if they don't produce