The time has come to set a salary cap within Major League Baseball. The inequality gap between the rich teams and the poorer teams limits the credibility of the entire game of baseball. Compared to the Pittsburg Pirates, Alex Rodriguez makes as much money in one year as their entire payroll for a single year! How lop sided is that fact? As of today, September 22, 2010, Alex Rodriguez of the New York Yankees has 510 at-bats. As of today, September 22, 2010, Alex Rodriguez's, of the New York Yankees, annual salary of 33 million is baseball's his salary of all time (MLB Salaries). Divided by his at-bats, the monumental salary he makes means he makes 64,705.88 per at-bat.
Looking at the baseball standings while the Yankees dominate the Rays, the Yankees are now 1.5 games ahead of us in the AL East. Well they should be; with the money allocated to buying players I do not understand how they do not win 162 games a year. To allow any team to even actually compete shouldn't happen. Now I know they haven't won all their 27 World Series rings within the last 15 to 20 years-when their payroll first became extremely inflated-but I'm observing the present time and how their, and other teams, payroll hurts the integrity of the entire game.
What I am proposing is adding a salary cap to Major League Baseball in order to produce a more cohesive environment for competitiveness . What's the problem with that? The only teams which should despise a salary cap are the teams at the top of the payroll lists. In order for baseball to become a more loved and honored sport would be to implement this salary cap, as more people will be more accepting of the bigger teams, and pay more attention to the smaller teams, which would hopefully win more often with a leveled playing field. Personally, I don't know if anyone else feels this way, when I am watching a game without the Rays playing it in, I will usually root for the team with the substantially lower payroll. Everyone, besides Yankees fans, loves watching them falter to the Oakland Athletics, as their pay roll quadruples the Athletics' (MLB Salaries).
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