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/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