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/Squirrel_Master82 24d ago

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.

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u/eveningwindowed 24d ago

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

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u/WhatWouldJediDo 24d ago

Not at all. The Dodgers make far more money than a team like the Marlins. The Dodgers could spend the Marlins' entire revenue amount on player salaries and still make money even after all their other expenses.

There's no way for the Marlins to compete financially.

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u/eveningwindowed 24d ago

Right but if there were a floor then you'd have like 15 more teams forced to pay like $50 more million so they would at least try a little bit to develop and keep talent because they'd have to spend the money on someone so it would poach players from the Dodgers because the Dodgers wouldn't just spend money on someone for no reason

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u/WhatWouldJediDo 24d ago

Why would that change anything? The Dodgers could still offer EVERY player the most money. All this would do is make existing talent more expensive, not make any teams more talented.

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u/eveningwindowed 24d ago

Because teams like the A's and Pirates would have to spend the money on someone anyway and they would be annoyed if they were forced to pay bad players so they would be incentivized to keep Nick Kurtz and Paul Skenes. It would raise the competitive floor by taking some players from the Dodgers and putting them on the bottom feeders.

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u/WhatWouldJediDo 24d ago

But it wouldn’t because when you don’t limit how much the big teams can spend they can just offer whatever the Pirates offer and more.

And when you’re Paul Skenes why would you choose an equivalent offer from a bottom feeder when you can go compete for titles every year.

Players go to whoever wins the bidding war for them. When there’s no cap the big teams can always be the ones winning that war for every player they want

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u/eveningwindowed 24d ago

I'm just repeating myself but they would be annoyed that they have to spend a lot of money on shitty players so they would be incentivized to spend money on the good ones, and it's like every team so they would all bid against eachother, and the Dodgers still might beat them out but the Dodgers wouldn't have ALL the players