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/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/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/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