Salary Cap

Okay I was originally going to just leave the last post as is and have this be a post script to it, but I liked the way it ended and this topic deserves it's own post.

I would like to see a salary cap in baseball. Might seem strange given how much I love the Yankees and how much the Yankees go out and spend. Before the World Series I was watching the Mike Francesa show and a caller asked him if the Yankees winning the World Series would be cheapened by the free agent acquisitions. To the caller's surprise, and mine, Francesa immediately said yes it would. I don't like the thought that the Yankees might be winning, for lack of a better word, tainted championships. I want the Yankees championships to be unquestionably earned and an achievement no one can take away even a little bit.

The idea of a salary cap would change a lot in baseball. Obviously players like Albert Pujols, Derek Jeter, Dustin Pedroia would be locked up quickly and stay with the same team but players like Mike Lowell, or Scott Kazmir could end up literally anywhere. It would shake everything up immensely and if teams are willing to spend correctly any team could be as good as the Yankees or Phillies. The only problem is that a team like the Phillies who have mostly homegrown talent, Utley, Howard, Rollins, Hamels, Happ, Madson, and Ruiz, would lose some of the players they groomed from the start. As fair as the salary cap would make the field, it would be highly unfair to teams like the Phillies or even the Rays. There are many things that need to be considered but I am actually in favor of a cap.