Baseball has a Money Problem
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- Опубликовано: 2 июн 2024
- Shohei Ohtani, Yoshinobu Yamamoto and Tyler Glasnow are part of the Los Angeles Dodgers. The Yankees and only a couple others can spend a fraction of what the Dodgers paid. Are teams like the Brewers, Rays, and Orioles at fault, or is this an MLB problem?
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What needs to happen to fix baseball?
Salary Cap.
Salary cap and salary floor. Thats what makes the NHL and NFL so great. The rich can’t outspend everyone and the cheap are forced to pay players.
Players need to shut up, quit whining about money and win anyway. Even the "poorest" baseball player makes more than I'll ever see in my lifetime. So what if a team has the lowest payroll? WIN ANYWAY...duuuh.
Get rid of replay and most of the new rules from the last 5 years.
Free Agency needs a complete overhaul for one. Players need to get to FA younger, 28 as a cap for example, bar a team extension so a rework of the entire arbitration process. No team can keep a player from FA for more than 5 years no matter what. No player can sign a term for longer than 5 years. Have a deadline limit for "megadeals" so players and agents (named Boras) can't sit on their hands to wring out more than a player is worth if no deal is made by the deadline, then you can only sign a one-year deal.
Next issue is a salary floor. I don't care for a cap, but a floor is a must, too many owners just pocket money meant for Baseball to pad their pockets.
We have to lower the games played in a season. 162 games are just too many for anyone over 30 years old and we see it every year in the injuries that ravage players and that doesn't even touch how many pitchers get screwed overexerting themselves.
Starters need to have a separate designation from the rest of the roster and teams need to carry 6 (yes 6) primary starters for the regular season and penalties need to be in place to punish teams who get cute with openers and using 6 or more guys to play one 9 inning game. It would mostly work out that a Starter could at max only pitch one game a week. This would help keep young pitchers from needing Tommy John quite as much and it would also help a lot with offense diversity in general. 6 starters plus 5 other pitchers should be enough for a standard workload and if someone goes down to injury call up someone.
The last thing is a forced dismantling for super teams considered dynasties. My examples are the Dodgers and Yankees. If a team is too impactful for too long that it stifles other teams from ever being able to compete, then the team gets a reverse draft forced on them to end their reign. This would be used for teams that have always been in the post-season for at least 5 years in a row or cheaters like the Houston Astros and Red Sox to punish the team or restore some competitive balance to the sport. I play a lot of card games and it is a common story that the game designers made a card that dominates the game and has to be made illegal to prevent everyone from leaving the game because of the toxic culture around the overpowered cards.
After that I think the problems are more owner focused and other then a system that could force owners out for sucking, I don't think many of the problems can be solved, just treated.
Small and Medium market teams frequently don't spend the competitive balance money they are given by MLB. They just pocket it. The money is designed to help even things out. There needs to be a minimum amount of the competitive balance money that small and mid market teams are required to spend each year. This would change things a bit and teams wouldn't look so uneven.
100% agree with you man
The ones that are trying usually end up spending on facilities and team development. The Astros Rays and O’s are examples of that.
Simplest way to do that would be to make the revenue sharing a matching fund thing instead of a cash payment. Look at the market size... if a team has 50% of the average market size, pay half of their payroll for them.
@@nacoran An interesting idea. Hopefully the Players Union and the owners will listen.
Who can the A's spend it on ? Players don't want to play for the A's typically so they can't spend the money on players. Its not that simple as just oh they are not spending money. A's get 1/10 of the TV budget that the Dodgers and Yankees' get. Look at the Giants they made a few big offers got turned down so its even harder for smaller markets. There not only has to be a salary cap and TV revenue sharing there has to be some limit on teams during FA.
Forcing the Dodgers and Mets to spend less doesn't mean the A's, Pirates and Marlins will spend more.
Correct. Both need to be forced to spend less/more
With a salary cap would also come a mandatory salary floor. It would be great for baseball (though as a pirates fan I admit I’m biased).
As a Pirate fan myself, there needs to be at least a salary floor. But I have been shocked seeing Nutting approving the extensions. Our minor league development does need to get better though.
What people seem to miss about a salary cap is there is also a minimum salary that must be met
Need both imo
thats a good thing for some teams
Great video. As a Mariners fan, I do nothing but hope that the ownership does something good, even though most of the times it isn't, yet I have to live with it while I see other teams literally get all they want and more. Btw, in the video you said the Marlins have not won a playoff game since 2003, but they swept the Cubs in 2020 to then get swept by the Braves.
2020 season is so forgettable haha thanks for correcting me and watching!
@@BrewPack I have to agree with that, like who remembers that teams like the Reds or the Marlins made the playoffs that year? And no problem.
And of course our M's have never been in the World Series either. I'm expecting the M's will win 87 and not make the playoffs again.
@@daveerhardt1879 That's a posibility I can totally see happening.
This goes back to the skinflint owners in the early days of baseball and the reserve clause. The owners are getting now what the old owners did. It's ironic that Satchel Paige was paid more than Joe DiMaggio was in the 1930 by about 10-15 thousand a year.
Gordie Howe was the 4th highest paid Red Wing at one point simply because he never questioned what management paid him. He just signed the contract offered, no question. For that, they took advantage of him.
I often wondered why baseball owners never went to a Playoff system when there were just eight teams in the AL/NL (instead of finishing 2nd w/ 104 wins, then just going home) but after awhile I realized those owners were so damned cheap, the idea of paying players beyond 154 games was blasphemous.
Connie Mack himself said the best teams for owners were ones that competed all year long for a pennant, but missed being 1st by a game or two. 🙄
Not about who spends the most. You have to spend enough to compete for the good players then it's management and development job to get over the top
great video, keep up the great work.
Thank you Lyle! Really appreciate it
Really great stuff. Keep up the awesome work!
I appreciate it!
The only problem with Othani's contract is how large the deffered amount and the fact that it had no interest. On the brightside we'll have a shohei othani day right after Bobby Bonilla day finish.
The guy is damaged goods.
They have even said that he doesn't Even have to play for the team. He will give any team a financial boost just being on the roster. He is a side show. Baseball is a joke.
🇺🇸This is America!!! Get rid of all salary caps. MLB teams should be free to spend what they want. It doesn’t guarantee you win.
Yes! I live in small market been baseball dan 68 yrs…
There are no caps in spending in any other bizz…
You want NFL and NBA to get rid of theirs?
@@BrewPack yes
I don't think that matters. It's only unfair if the poor teams are all terrible. But they are not, Both the Guardians, Rays, and Athletics have made the post season more times in the last 15 years than the Mets and Cubs two of the richest teams. Yankees and Dodgers are always contending and spending money but that's a risk reward factor. Over investing in someone who could get hurt or just under perform. The Red Sox have been completely risk reward, either going all in wins a world series or finish in last like the 2015 Red Sox. The Astros only became viewed as a richer team because good market and get scouting. Like It's very Likely the 2024 Dodgers will make the playoffs, but not guaranteed. Payroll is very overrated.
You see Guardians, Rays and Athletics successes, and I see Guardians, Rays and Athletics being less than what they could have been had they spent money.
The problem with having "big market" and "small market" teams is the big market teams can do everything small market teams can do, while also spending money on free agents.
Imagine if the Rays, Guardians and Athletics spent just another 30 million more on a big free agent. Money doesn't guarantee a world series or success, but to say it doesn't matter is just ridiculous. Money allows you to make mistakes. It allows you to have depth. It allows you to build for the future and the present. It allows you to scout more, develop better and generally buy more.
@@RigelOrionBeta money helps, but it’s not the recipe for success if it did the Mets would be a dynasty.
If the rays were in the World Series against the Mets and the rays were viewed as the underdog it would be a joke.
@@alexjessop5330 And yet, the Mets still have plenty of money to spend, and can field a good roster (on paper) year in and year out.
It doesn't negate the fact that the Guardians Rays and Athletics couldn't because revenue sharing is not nearly as high as it should be, and because their owners are allowed to be cheap because there is no salary floor.
@@RigelOrionBeta But it's not hurting those teams. The Rays and Guardians have been contending for more than 5 years. All 3 American League East teams made the Postseason none of them were yankees and Red Sox. So it's not hurting them, they found a System to work for them. As many times a team sold their soul to win a championship Ie 2009 Yankees, 2013 Red Sox, 2016 Cubs, on the Other side you have 2012 Marlins, 2015 Red Sox, 2013 Blue Jays, 2015 Padres, Hell the early 90's Mets were the worst team money can buy. I do think there should be a salary cap to make more fair for those teams to get free agents so it not only the Yankees and Dodgers, but and the end of the day it's not hurting them. Arizona made the world series this year. It's only unfair if none of these teams can win under these conditions.
Yup Brewers for example got a net positive of 80 million from revenue sharing in 2023. They got 60 million for the national TV deal, 34 million for the local TV deal and 79 million in ticket sales.
80+60+34+79=253. Once you factor in money from food, drinks and parking plus other stuff like merchandise their total revenue must be between 300-350 million. Even if we assume the low end of 300 million why is 118 million acceptable to spend on a legit World Series contender? I could understand that amount if they were in full rebuild mode and spending low so they could spend big later on. But clearly that is no what is going on. Brewers payroll should be no lower than 185 million last year. Rays are an even more extreme example.
These small market teams do not want a salary cap because they know a salary cap would come with a salary floor. The A’s wouldn’t get away with a 70 mill payroll with 210 million in revenue. The floor would almost certainly be similar to the NBA. They would be required to spend up to 80-90% of the total cap or lose the ability to collect revenue sharing. Salary cap would likely be 200 million and every club would have to have at least 160 million spent in payroll. The days of the Brewers, Reds, Marlins, Pirates, O’s, A’s, Cleveland, Royals and a couple others making 150-200 million a year in profits would be over. Which is why they would all vote against a salary cap along with the Dodgers, Yankees and Mets. Reaching 75% wouldn’t happen even if the players approved it (hardest part)
You are forgetting the taxes and payroll of the entire system. It's not all profit. Additionally, a team only receives money if they spend LESS than they were given the previous years. Why would the Brewers spend more than they receive, they would have to pay next year.
@@fear.censorship they would only pay taxes on their profits. They are making bank
IT is the scam that Attanasio is running. He does just enough to get the team in the playoffs. That means the rubes will fill the stadium while he can claim he tried while bemoaning payroll disparity. Meanwhile his wallet gets fat and he laughs at everyone. THE Brewers will never make the WS until that cheap ass is gone
Hockey has a salary cap and it's competitive. And it helps develop talent in the minor league teams. I think salary cap would help baseball even things out. Also the MLB needs to figure out how to keep the money for the team out of the owners pockets.
MLB has the most Parity out of any league this century. It’s the only league in the US without a salary cap. It’s doing just fine without it. 16 teams have won the WS this century compare to only 14 winning the SC. There have been 2 different teams go B2B in the NHL so far this century (PIT, TB), not a single MLB team has managed to do it so far. This past WS was between a team making their 2nd WS appearance in their a history and the other making 3rd appearance in their history while winning their first ever WS.
Is it the dodgers fault that other teams owners don’t got it like that 😂😂😂😂. Some even do got more than they say but they pretend to be broke
No sir none of it is LA’s fault. They’re taking advantage of the game and I respect that
🇺🇸If dodgers want to spend the most money to buy the championship like in the past, they have every right ti do so…🇺🇸
Is it the Dodgers’ “fault?” No. That doesn’t mean it’s good for the sport though. There needs to be a cap floor and ceiling to make small market teams spend more, but also to keep big market teams like the Dodgers from simply bullying the entire league with their payroll. Look at a league like the NHL where each division has like 3 contenders in it. It has tons of parity.
@@alexschneider8494 salary floor would be good but not a salary cap. Salary cap would just be an excuse for the pocketing owners on why they are staying at the floor. These teams have the money just no one wants to play for these obscure teams, or they are not only obscure but also poorly run which is no one’s fault but their own.
@@hepatitiscyalater7269 then just make the cap and the floor the same like in every other sport. Force every team to spend X amount of money each season
Boston and Giants fans unite! Our owners are cheap and they act like small market teams
I’m a Dodger fan. And to be fair it’s not like San Francisco hasn’t tried. They thought they signed Correa. They offered deals to Shohei,Judge,Yamamoto and so on. San Francisco is facing a culture problem right now. And that’s sad. Again I’m a Dodger fan and I hate the Giants but there is no way that pillar franchise with that beautiful ballpark and be where they are.
Giants have at least tried for guys. Sox trading Mookie was embarrassing for them though
@@BrewPack true, Boston seems to be in a very concerning situation, y’all dodged a bullet with Kapler tho, heard he interviewed for that Gm position 💀
@@BrewPackwhether you liked him or not. It came out the ownership literally wouldn’t let Blum spend money. The new GM is seeing some of the same problems
I'm so tired of this narrative.
I'd love to see how much money the DBacks made from last year's postseason run, and how much money they are investing in their roster for 2024 to keep competing.
Don't forget, in 2024, the Dodgers will play 81 games as a visitors and the teams they are playing against in those games will charge their small market fans around $120 (at least) to see Ohtani and Yamamoto in their stadium. None of those tickets sales goes to LA, all will be kept in the pockets of those "poor small market owners".
These small teams don't invest in free agency, but most aren't investing in their farm systems either, and I don't see ANYONE demanding MLB to force them to do so
Do you follow MLB prospects?? The best systems are the Orioles, Rays, Brewers, Guardians, Mariners, Twins, etc. In fact, the Dodgers are the only big market team that does well with prospect development. Shit, the Yankees apparently, in the last few years, started using more analytics. Small market teams invest in their farm systems.
Can’t speak for every team but in Milwaukee when Trout and Ohtani were there for the first time last year you could still get into the park for under $20
Athletics have produced some great talent too! Only way they can compete
Great video
Tampa fans don’t support the team for a few reasons. 1. The stadium is in St Pete. Hard to get to unless you are in St Pete. 2. Half of the population in this area is from somewhere else and root for other teams. Only going to the trop to see their team (I’m in this boat).
As an Orioles fan, I feel like the team wants to lock down some of its young stars, but the best of them are represented by Scott Boras who rarely if ever allows his clients to do such deals. That being said, somehow in the next contract (CBA or network, not sure which it would apply to) it needs to be that all revenue sharing money from national television contracts needs to be spent on player payroll. Establish a payroll floor that the owners have long been against.
Boras sucks but Orioles have no excuse to not lock down AT LEAST 1 of their guys
Floor will never happen, players think it will lewd to cap and owners don’t want to spend that much.
@@ramsesgarcia8461 Probably so but I still think it is the right thing for the league itself.
Money doesn't guarantee a win but it sure does help. What's discouraging to fans in small markets is that we don't have a choice, we cannot compete for top talent and scrounge for one year deals when we think we can win it all. In this situation and having to win best of seven makes it extremely difficult. I think if you could create a March madness situation that would be fun. Maybe not one and done but how about more teams in it and best of 3? Or maybe do it like JUCO with a looser bracket?
Rays biggest issue for their stadium is literally because their stadium isnt even in the city their named after. 45 mins from downtown with minimal transportation options. Have to take a while day off work or even a half day just to get there. Let alone if a game starts at 1 or 7. Needs to be somewhere in downtown like the bucs and Lightning. Althought nobody can agree on who pays for it because nobody wants to pay for it.
Look at the Braves with sustainable contracts for young talent
Yessir they’ve figured out the way to do it. Lots are following them
They also have great scouting. Shrewd at trading players. I wouldn’t want to make a trade with the braves cuz it will be a bad trade
The term small market team was only coined to make an excuse for rich teams that don’t want to spend money
Eh kinda agree but those teams still can not spend 1.1 billion in 2 weeks
Yup
Obviously your ''team'' is not a small market team. Your reply is bias and ignorant as hell...
@@BrewPack oh yeah don't get me wrong that's definitely true. Clearly youre a brewers fan, they couldnt be spending money like the dodgers. I think the dodgers are kind of the outliers like the A's would be for cheap teams but a team like the orioles are a good example of a team that performed well this year and def has the money to go and get some pitching but they're choosing not to
@@jimibmore It's really not, I don't know who you're a fan of but most of these small market teams we're talking about do have the money to spend (not as much as the dodgers) and they choose not to. Some owners are just cheaper than others
This has been an issue for a long time. I highly recommend Bob Costas' book Fair Ball.
They should not be allowed to defer that much money like that. Makes a joke of the system.
They need salary cap like hockey
With as much as some owners don't want it, I think a salary cap is the way to go, but have it both ways. Have a maximum cap that you can't go over, but also have a minimum cap. In the event a team doesn't reach that minimum, there would be significant penalties.
Not all goal for every team is to win WS, just to be profitable and highlighted
Those teams need to be penalized then
A few thoughts: 1. I support players getting paid, what I hate is that it’s always the same 8-10 teams that are in the mix for free agents, so about 20 teams go into the offseason knowing they have no chance to land a top player because their owners are cheap 2. The league will never have a cap/floor, as that is one of the players union’s biggest accomplishments. 3. Smaller market teams are the ones being impacted by TV deal uncertainty the most, and are thus hesitant to spend. 4. This is not a perfect solution, but one thing I would suggest would to regulate how much a team can spend in free agency.
The irony is, had any of these "smaller" market teams actually taken a swing at Ohtani, they'd instantly obtain the biggest market the game would have to offer.
Nah, that didn't happen with the Angels
@@r7calvinBut it did? Ohtani’s jersey become one of if not the most sold one in baseball and Japanese ads were so good that even teams being visited would get them while Ohtani was there
Everything is based on population...that's why they're called small markets...jfc...what part of that don't you people understand?
The Dodgers just spent a billion on 2 players but the Yankees are the thumbnail? Ok. The O's spent the last 10 years rebuilding. The Rays have a big market to tap but that stadium and location handcuff them.
Shohei in a dodgers uni is also on the thumbnail. The Yankees are usually the highest spender as I mentioned in the video
Besides covid shortened 2020, you'd have to go back to 2013 for the yankees to have the highest payroll. Boston and LA are the 2 biggest offenders. Yankees started the fire but they don't hold thst crown now.
Baseball has had a money problem for about 40 years.
Correct
The Royals went to the world series in 2014 and 2015 winning on 2015. They had a Dollar General payroll. It can be done, it ain't easy.
Baseball has a talent problem, not enough talent for 30 teams
Even if there's known big talent. Talent doesn't sign for low wages or contract either.
@@nonayabusiness6170 it's unsustainable,
A ton of the fault goes to the MLPA who have for decades prioritized making sure that top talent gets the largest contract possible. The game would be better if contracts where limited to 5 years. This would allow smaller markets to take more risks.
Need a salary cap and a salary floor.
Baseball doesn’t have money problem teams not spending money is the problem
Which is still a money problem lol
Teams with low payrolls have always been able to be competitive if they have the talent. Having money means you spend more, doesnt mean you win more! It's all about the GM and the Manager
No salary cap, Revenue share is trash as well. if you can't hang with the cap of other teams then they should be phased out.
I disagree. The royals just spent over 100 million dollar's this offseason. What it comes down to is greedy ownera. Everything is a means to an end the royals want a new stadium and they need to win to do that. The ray's have proven they can spend money with the franco deal. The pirates and athletics can do it to.
Unfortunately for the Rays I doubt they spend money like that again since Franco didn’t exact work out 🙃
If the MLB wants to punish teams for spending too much with what amounts to a soft salary cap, they need to set a salary floor for teams and punish those that don't meet the minimum.
as a brewers fan i quit baseball in 2010 when i ask why...this is me wishing for a change knowing my childhood game is over
Can I ask what was the dagger for you?
Payroll does not equal success. Texas won the WS in 2023 and were 9th in Payroll. Mets had almost double the Texas payroll.
Looking at attendance in a vacuum is extremely misleading. Baseball franchises have a history and a relationship with their fans and different fan bases want different things from their team in order to care. Look at the SF Giants for example and despite the fact that the Giants spend about $160 million in payroll every year, fans are completely checked out. There are a LOT of reasons for this, and this is just ONE MLB franchise. You really need to do a deep dive across all of baseball team by team to find out the reasons why attendance is often down for each team.
Honestly, what is needed is a salary floor. It needs to be the TV money + league revenue sharing figure for that floor.
Their is a problem effecting baseball as a whole is called soccer the MLS is now bigger than the MLB.
the small market teams can pay more but to the level of the dodgers, yankees, and mets, there is no way.
The Cardinals break all logic when it comes to this. They play in a bottom 10 Market in the MLB. Indians, Rays, Marlins, and Rockies all are considered small market teams yet play in a bigger market than the Cardinals. The difference is Cardinals have both an owner that spends and a fans base that supports the team. Indians, Rays, and Marlins don’t have fans that show up regardless of if their team is good or not. And also their owners don’t spend. Rockies on the other hand do have a fan base that shows up and supports the team, but they lack an owner that kind of doesn’t spend (Rockies owner defines logic). Add to the fact that St Louis isn’t a go to destination, the city is constantly ranked as one of the most dangerous cities in the country. This pretty much shows that the size of the market doesn’t mean much when the fanbase supports the team and they have an owner who spends. The solution to this whole problem starts with forcing owners to spend
The only solution would be a flat cap. The ensuing competitive balance would fill most stadiums.
You cannot have a salary cap and floor until everyone agrees on what the total revenue of the sport is, so the division can be negotiated. MLB owners refuse to share their books with the MLBPA, so the total revenue is in dispute. Until this changes, any talk of a cap and floor is utterly pointless.
It’s still always fun to discuss stuff!
Clearly teams in densely populated areas are given a free pass because they pull in the most profits. What needs to be done is either a salary cap like the NFL has now or a better and fair Luxury tax system that takes away a club's heart....their draft picks. Set a ceiling and if they break that ceiling they are not only financially punished for over spending but lose draft picks. And I mean starting with their first rounder. Also restrict their international finances to sign prospects. Teams like the Dodgers and Yankees have used this method for decades and it's time to level the playing field. I've contacted MLB and recommended this strategy many times. I've never been replied to ...just crickets. They know I'm correct in my assessments and without a salary cap, this is the only fair method and strategy.
I don't plan on watching anymore until there's a salary cap comparable to the NHL/NFL.
120M minimum spent and if you wanna build with young cores with 80M salaries you MUST spread the 40M remaining between all players under contract with % of payroll dedicate per each player.
Funny how at least 3 other teams offered 600 million or more. Someone was gonna pay him. Just happened to be the dodgers
That’s the top of the pyramid
Met fans had zero expectations because their team is gonna rebuild
Yeah it is a problem, and it is one they can sort of fix. Still gonna have cheap owners, maybe rich owners that go over and get taxed. But overall it would certainly get everyone closer to center. They’ve already expanded the playoffs, why not put in some sort of salary cap? The cowboys ain’t done shit since the NFL implemented one. They basically bought 3 super bowls in the 90’s, now they can’t get through the wild card.
Baseball teams aren’t competing against each other they’re competing against the NFL
One year’s example of spending not helping with success is not enough of an argument for me. The dodgers can do bad one year but it doesn’t change the fact that they’ve been the #1 or #2 spenders for four decades and will continue to be indefinitely. There is absolutely a coorelation between LONG TERM spending and LONG TERM success. Dodger fans just want their cake and to eat it too it’s like rich kids getting more funding for school because a broken structure but they turn around and call redlining fake and blame the problem on “don’t be broke”
They had one season where fans started to come back to the game.
After this free agent period I will never come back to baseball again.
I have no faith the Orioles will resign any of our stars .... Owner absolutely sucks.
Like, I know realistically a 700M contract for Ohtani was out of the price range for the Os, I get that ... but it just kinda sucks knowing the Orioles will never be able to have top tier talent unless it's homegrown for a few years. We'll never have Cal Ripkin type names again since they'll all be forced out in the market, at least it feels that way.
Does a salary cap fix it? Forcing owners to spend a certain amount and restricting others as it slowly goes up each year? Idk
There should be a salary cap, both minimum and max.
Baseball revenue sharing needs to end. Screw the smaller market teams! All they do is pocket the revenue money. The Mets plan would have worked if they signed the same players 4 years ago, and I’m not a Mets fan.
I agree and disagree. MLB should look at teams who pocket the money and give them a much smaller percentage. Many smaller teams still spend some/most of their
I miss the expos 😢
Cubs fan since 1967, but I’ve lived in Dallas for 40 years and I also follow the Rangers closely. Two big market teams. I still think baseball needs revenue sharing like the NFL.
A's problem is their billionaire owner John Fisher. He thinks moving them to Vegas will fix this....Miami fans as well as Tampa fans don't want to go watch baseball when they can spend the day outside....Rockies have owner Dick Monfort holding them back. But spending doesn't equal championships....
This
Look at the last 20 yrs...do you see a lot of repeat world series winners..is someone dominating baseball...???no...that's because teams that try to "buy" world series usually don't succeed.
While there haven’t been repeat winners, you can definitely buy consistent regular season success. The Yankees may have only championship since 2000, but they’ve only missed the playoffs 5 times in 23 years. The Rockies have made the playoffs 5 times in their history. Money can’t buy a championship, but it certainly can buy you a ticket to the dance
it took a miracle for the royals to win a world series, not just in terms of roster construction, that was one thing, they also needed luck like the ball hopping over carlos correa's glove in game 4 of the ALDS. that was 9 years ago now, i can't see them ever doing it again, not while they're in kc and the "reality of small market teams" dictating they can't sign players. i loved them, playoff baseball is an awesome thing to have in your city, but i'd trade that franchise for an nhl or nba team right now. they bring me no joy, and any time spent watching their games is a complete waste.
Salary Floor and Salary Cap would fix the problem.
Dude the marlins won an entire playoff series in 2020😅😅
Yeah someone corrected me a few weeks ago lol the 2020 season was so forgettable but that’s my fault
@@BrewPackit's all good it's the only thing I can hold on to as a Marlins fan lolol
I mean why not a cap of how much a team can spend? Like how F1 has a spending linit
I suggested something similar, but one issue with what we’re suggesting is this: while it may prevent an Ohtani/Yamamoto level spending spree, it would have other implications. For example, the Dodgers may not pursue Yamamoto because they signed Ohtani, but in that case Yamamoto goes to the Mets/Yankees, not a team like the Pirates or the A’s. It would suppress player salaries, which is something the player’s union would never agree to
The answer for MLB is just expand the playoffs more and give even less incentive to spend and the top spenders feel even more pressure to spend even more in a futile attempt to beat the crapshoot
As a dan of a poverty franchise (pirates) baseball has become the definition of insanity to me. There is no reason to pay attention anymore unless my team falls ass backwards into being "just good enough".
Any team could. Look at the oakland A. Their owner has always been cheap. Shouldn't even be allowed to own a team. He never spends crap.
Miami is a poor city. People working in the service industry and having to deal with large rents go to the ballpark during the World Baseball Classic, then watch the games at home.
WBC was a great atmosphere
The Marlins or Ray's could win the World Series every year and probably would average at best 20-25K per game,what happens in Florida would be a totally different video from this one.Which is why its disappointing the Rays are putting the stadium in St Pete,they would have much higher chances of having higher average attendance if they would put it in that rumored location next to Sea World and the Orange County convention center in Orlando.The sheer number of tourists that visit the area and the central location in that state would almost guarantee 25K fans a game.
Florida Man is more of a NASCAR guy.
Like the A’s not spending. Fisher can spend, but he doesnt
They keep calling Ohtani a unicorn. What are you will to pay? Giants matched the offer. Yamamoto I understand. Yankees? Red Sox? Cubs? Giants? Blue jays?
The entire economic system needs to change in MLB or smaller market fans are just going to walk away. You don't want all the stars or big players concentrated on a couple teams. Everyone claims the A's don't spend money. Just who are the going after ? Ohtani ? Come on there are very few players that will look at a team like the A's or Brewers or Royals. So they have to draft and keep good players. The entire problem is TV money. If MLB shared all the TV money equally local and national contracts MLB would be in better shape. The A"s get next to nothing for their TV deal, while the Dodgers are getting over 1 billion. Its just not competitive.
I still fully believe the A’s could have kept 2 of 3 of Chapman/Olson/Murphy but the rest I agree with
@@BrewPack I doubt it players don’t want to stay with the A’s if they have other options and all three were going to get simnifically better offers. A’s Royals and other teams just don’t have the resources. I got to see the actual books from the Giants in the 80s when they were still at the Stick and they were barely braking even some years and losing money on most. These small market teams like the A’s are in the exact same situation as the Giants were in the 80s very little overall revenue.
@@scotttild And now the Giants are considered a "big market" team. It's not baseball fault that Oakland As fans dont go to games
Baseball needs a salary cap.
This urge to make/change a rule or a law every time something happens that some people don't like is ruining professional sports. Leave it all ALONE! Let these things play out over years and decades and see innovation occur out of NECESSITY, without a coercive mandate that takes away all the fun of seeing player recruitment, development and playing styles change over time.
man this is a good video but you have to record your audio better...
baseball has a strikeout problem. and a cheap homerun problem.
The salary cap will happen. The players will agree.
Doubt it sadly
@@BrewPack players will get tired of the excess payroll driving the wins of the dodgers, mets, yankees, and Angels. If only the big market teams are good, then most players will agree to a cap to stop that.
Imagine you invented the pizza shop. Everyone loved your pizza, and you decided you want to expand, so you open 29 other pizza shops, but there are some rules. Each pizza shop you open demands that you don't open other pizza shops near them. There are only 2 pizza shops in all of NYC. Only one in Boston, 2 in LA, one in Kansas City...
Which pizza shops are going to make the most money?
If your goal is to have parity the solution is to open more pizza shops in NYC and LA. That doesn't mean that you have to close the shop in KC... you can have expansion. The problem is that when we think about expansion we think about doing it in the next biggest market that doesn't have a team. The big teams rarely agree to let a new team expand near them, and when they do, they require huge payments to do so (think Nationals and Baltimore).
And no matter how bad a team is they don't fold, because they get revenue sharing. If you want to fix baseball, allow expansion into more big markets to dilute the big market share. To make sure teams spend enough of their money, create a trap door system where teams that are consistently bad can fall out of the big leagues and the owner now only gets a minor league cut of revenues. Randomize the draft so tanking isn't a strategy.
ridiculous but as long as thE fans are prepared to pay equal ridiculous ticket prices to see a ball being thrown... SALARY CAP
Teams like the Dodgers, and Yankees are killing baseball. I love it when they lose out in the postseason
700 million to be paid in 10 years...
If i own a baseball team i opt out of revenue sharing
We need a salary Cap this shit is getting stupid
MLB is BS. NFL has teams in these same markets. You don’t hear the Bengals saying that they are trading Joe Burrow because after his rookie deal he’ll be too expensive. MLB owners are the worst people ever. Every one of those small market teams voted for the last collective bargaining agreement. Such a trash league. Only rivaled by what NIL has done to NCAA football and men’s basketball.
the marlins won the wild card series in 2020 wym have not won a playoff series
No, crappy baseball teams have a money problem
Get rid of bottom teams
Rays Up!
Salary floor time
Bold of you to put the Yankees in the thumbnail considering they've spend a grand total of $0 this off-season
Hahaha yeah idk what they’re doing this offseason
The Yankees get 650 million in profit each year vs a team like the A's 200 million no matter what they can't out spend top teams which does put them at a disadvantage ·Mlb need a Max and a Minimum cap
Go Rangers!
Its gross.