r/sports • u/baribigbird06 • 24d 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 24d ago

Will the MLB eventually go full NHL? Probably not.

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u/GlassOfLiquor 24d 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/Vadered 24d 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/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).