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Originally Posted by GatorB
Sure it does. All those teams are in the top half.
2006 Playoff teams
Yankees #1
Mets #5
Dodgers#6
Cardinals #11
Tigers #14
Padres #17
Twins #19
A's #21
2005 Playoff teams
Yankees #1
Red Sox #2
Angels #4
Cardinals #6
Braves #10
Astros #12
White Sox #13
Padres #16
2004 Playoff teams
Yankees #1
Red Sox #2
Angels #3
Dodgers #6
Braves #8
Cardinals #9
Astros #12
Twins #19
You show me the bottom 10 teams in payroll for 2007 and I give you 20:1 odds none of them even make it to the WS this year. In the last 3 years only 1 team out of 24 playoff teams between 2004-2006 finished in the bottom 1/3 of payroll and they were at the top of that list.
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Nobody is debating that you need to spend SOME money to produce a winner. But you dont need to be a top 5 spender or anything. Anything in the top 2/3rd has a legitimate shot.
Like I said...money doesn't correlate to championships. If you spend nothing; you don't have a chance. But if you set a salary cap at 80 mil as you say; why would the teams spending 25-50 million start spending anymore than they were?
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Yes it is. They did it in football. And it wouldn't be $50 mil and you know it. A salary cap in baseball would be closer to $80 mil. Also a lot of $25 mil salary in a signing bonus and like football, baseball could allow teams to spread the cap hit of a signing bonus over several years.
With a ceiling there also has to be a floor, a minimum a team has to spend.
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I picked 50 million to help your point
The larger the salary cap the more realistic a cap is; but the less effective it would be. If you have an 80 million dollar cap....the small market teams will still be spending a fraction of the larger market teams.
In 2006 only the top 14 payrolls spent 80 million or more. The lowest spending team was the Florida Marlins with 14.98 million.
Please explain to me how setting an 80 million dollar cap helps the teams spending less? The best players will still flock to where the money is actually available. You'll have a hell of a time MAKING a small market team or a cheap owner or failing franchise spend near the cap.
And in regards to signing bonuses....hmmm, I wonder which teams will be able to give these signing bonuses?
Even in football their are specific teams that notoriously go after big free agents with large signing bonuses.