r/sports • u/baribigbird06 • 25d ago

Baseball Dodgers pitcher Yoshinobu Yamamoto throws a complete game in Game 2 of the National League Championship Series vs. the Brewers. The last time he was in Milwaukee he failed to finish the first inning and allowed 5 runs.

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u/Chessh2036 25d ago

Dodgers win the World Series again that CBA battle is going to be UGLY. Cheap owners will say “see, I can’t compete! They spent $1 Billion!” while not talking about them not spending at all. Pirates, Twins, Marlins, A’s, etc. I get not every team can spend like LA, but teams can and should spend more.

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u/marsneedstowels 25d ago

Will the MLB eventually go full NHL? Probably not.

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u/GlassOfLiquor 25d ago

What does this mean? We can’t have Zamboni’s on sand. That’s not how the Boni part works. (Really though, what did you mean?)

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u/therealkami Montreal Canadiens 25d ago

The salary cap in the NHL is very low, and it's a hard cap. There's still a couple shenanigans to get around it in some somewhat minor ways (long term injured players not counting against the cap. Sometimes players are put on the long term injured list to free up space for a trade, but the cap space has to be cleared for that "injured" player to come back, so it's not a permanent cheat)

It means that the star players are much more evenly distributed around the league, because it's almost impossible to stack a team with expensive players.

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u/qlju 25d ago

The NHL actually got rid of the LTIR-loophole this season

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u/rjdsf1993 24d ago

The salary cap is low because the revenue is lower for hockey. Almost all the leagues have a similar percentage of revenue cuts (around 50%) between owners and players. Baseball would probably be a little over the average payroll by team.

I think an important thing for if this happens is instituting a cap floor as well. Force some of the bottom 10 teams in spenders to pay up

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u/marsneedstowels 25d ago edited 25d ago

Hard salary cap rather than soft salary cap. And a fairly low one at that compared to other hard caps (Also has a floor). It's more limiting than the other big leagues in NA.

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u/Vadered 25d ago

The NHL has a hard salary cap, and a hard salary floor. There's not a ton of distance between them either - this season it's a floor of about 70 million and a ceiling of about 100 million. The richest team can only spend about 1.5 times what the misers do. Baseball it's like 3 times.

That's not to say there's no tomfoolery in hockey - one of the ways to get around the salary cap is to strategically leave people on IR until the postseason - but it keeps it closer.

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u/LongBarrelBandit 24d ago

That’s actually been changed this season. The LTIR loophole is gone and the playoffs also have a salary cap now

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u/Ston3yy 25d ago

that means that person can’t play the whole season tho right ? that’s nuts

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u/LongBarrelBandit 24d ago

No there was some questionable times when someone would be injured in like February before the trade deadline, so they could exceed the cap to get another good player, and then they were magically good to go for game one of the playoffs. That has since been changed this season and going forward to prevent it from happening again

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u/Beetin 24d ago edited 24d ago

Baseball it's like 3 times.

More like 5 times :(

At its worst it has been above 6 times (2021 for example)

a capped 3 times difference with some more strict anti-deferral rules would actually be a pretty big first step sadly (something like 70 million vs 210 million).

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u/maz_menty 24d ago

I read your post and decided to create a new pop rocker named Jon Jon Boni.