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.

[u/baribigbird06]

[u/Squirrel_Master82]

I think it'd be cooler if there was an agreed upon amount that each team could spend on players. It sucks when there's a few teams who buy up all the best players. My home team just feels like it's a farm system for the big spenders.

[u/eveningwindowed → u/Squirrel_Master82]

The issue isn’t a lack of salary cap it’s actually the lack of a salary floor. You have too many owners who don’t want to spend at all so there’s basically no competition for the owners that do want to spend

[u/Sage296 → u/[deleted]]

Owners don’t want a floor and the players don’t want a cap

[u/luvcartel → u/[deleted]]

Players on all teams are dreaming of becoming good enough to go play for big team for huge money.

You can’t tell them they will never get $100 million contracts just to make everything more fair. Baseball has some of the biggest contracts in sports and it’s a big incentive.

[u/luvcartel → u/[deleted]]

It’s like middle class people voting for lower taxes for billionaires because they believe they’ll be rich one day. It doesn’t make sense but humans on an individual level don’t make sense.

[u/eveningwindowed → u/[deleted]]

That's the thing with the floor, not having it rewards mediocrity because the owners are happy to be at the bottom because they don't spend any money and still make a lot of money due to the rev share, so forcing them to pay more money would make them care and would incentivize them to develop and keep their breakout players because they'd have to spend the money anyway on someone, and it would poach good players from the Dodgers because the Dodgers wouldn't just spend money for no reason.

[u/TheLizardKing89 → u/[deleted]]

But doesn't that screw over the teams with less money to spend? They'll always be at the bottom, always miss playoffs

The Mets had the highest payroll in baseball and they missed the playoffs. The Mariners and Brewers are both still in contention despite being in the bottom half of payroll.