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clarence Major Leaguer Cup of Coffee

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I think a big part of the solution would be increasing the amount of service time a player must accumulate before free agency.

The luxury tax is a joke. All it does is reward average-to-below average players with bigger contracts than they deserve because those are the only free agents that 75% of baseball can get in on.

Can anyone else imagine the yanks, bosox, cubs, angels, or mets making a run at Cesar to play shortstop for them?

The owners better take a big long look at the discrepancies now, or they are going to lose a new fanbase in half the major league cities over the next decade.

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MLB baseball want teams to win. Boston is not a major market never has been. Where was Boston 15 years ago. Last place. When owners want to spend money there revenues go up. It's that simple. Every owner in baseball has money. Some choose not to spend it. The Yankees for instance don't make a profit. Or only a marginal profit each year. They would rather win then make a dollar. Unlike the 30 other teams.

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All the other major sports have a salary cap. IMO, there is no valid argument for not having a salary cap, thus creating a competitive balance. The big money teams can just run wild.

Much like College Football getting a playoff, I think eventually people will force the issue and MLB will have a cap.

Well the problem with a cap in baseball is it really will not fix things, yet. The Yanks have just an incredibly greater amount of money to work with. They would simply buy every decent international prospect out there and every signability prospect. They would end up with the best farm system and the best cheap players, thus being able to still buy the stars.

What I have never understood is how baseball never adjusted its' revenue model for the reality of modern media. When the gate was all you had, sharing was less important. However the fact that NY is the biggest TV market should not put other teams at such a disadvantage, there is not game on TV without the other team.

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I agree that increased revenue sharing is the answer. The problem is the Players Union and the large market clubs have such a significant influence in shaping the CBA that we will not likely see anything close to parity in payroll in the near future.

Without this, I think increasing the number playoff teams is the best way to go. Sure, the purists would hate it, but we added the DH and the wildcard years ago. The game is nothing like it was in the past anyway. Allowing more teams to get into the postseason would provide more hope to franchises and greater appeal to the more casual fans in those cities. This could help broaden the games appeal. The Yankees may be able to buy a postseason birth each year, but with more teams getting a crack at them in a short series, the playing field would become a more level.

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Way back during the "reserve clause" days there was no such thing as free agents switching teams for the highest bidder. You would think there would have been parity then but not so. Some teams were just awful decade after decade and teams like the Yankees dominated. Most teams were run just good enough to think that just maybe next year will be their turn.

Today, nearly every year some small or mid market team breaks through for a special season. Same same.

The one big negative of course is the expense for the average fan is far too high. The other major sports have that exact same problem even though they have a salary cap.

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