Time for a salary cap?

Blitzkrieg

Administrator

Take a look at these numbers and tell me something isn't wrong here. Also, look at all the W.S. contenders for the year and where they are on the list.

MLB TEAM	PAYROLL (US$)
1. NY Yankees	205,938,439
2. Boston	121,311,945
3. NY Mets	104,770,139
4. Philadelphia	95,337,908
5. LA Angels	95,017,822
6. St. Louis	92,919,842
7. San Francisco	89,487,426
8. Chicago Cubs	87,210,933
9. Seattle	85,883,334
10. Atlanta	85,148,582
11. LA Dodgers	81,029,500
12. Houston	76,779,022
13. Chicago Sox	75,228,000
14. Baltimore	74,570,539
15. Detroit	68,998,183
16. Arizona	63,015,833
17. San Diego	62,888,192
18. Florida	60,375,961
19. Cincinnati	59,658,275
20. Minnesota	56,615,000
21. Oakland	55,869,262
22. Texas	53,891,258
23. Washington	48,581,500
24. Colorado	48,107,500
25. Toronto	45,038,500
26. Cleveland	41,830,400
27. Milwaukee	40,234,833
28. Pittsburgh	38,133,000
29. Tampa Bay	37,975,067
30. Kansas City	36,881,000

IRALB

Lol, good gawd the Mets are terrible.

Justin Zane

I think they should for the simple fact that they're wasting a shit load of money, but probably will never happen because it's to out of control all ready the Players Association will never let it happen.

Mr. Kennedy

They need to have a salary cap, the luxury tax is BS because it doesn't really do anything.

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Dr. Giganto

Sports Moderator

I'm assuming that's the opening day rosters. If so, the Yankees payroll includes guys no longer witht he team, like Karsay, Stanton, and Quantrill

Next year the Yankees payroll should be a lot lower. If not lower, it simply won't go up much. Bernie Williams (13 mil), Kevin Brown (16 mil), Al Leiter (7 mil), Alan Embree (3 mil), Paul Quantrill (3 mil), Mike Stanton (4 mil), and Steve Karsay (6 mil) will all no longer be paid by the Yankees. That's 51 million that won't count against the Yankees payroll next year.

Only 4 of those guys still have roster spots (Bernie, Brown, Leiter, and Embree), and with a healthy rotation, they won't need to replace Brown or Leiter, since they can just plug Chacon and Wang in there instead. I'm fine with a rotation of Johnson, Mussina, Pavano, Wang, and Chacon. With Jaret Wright in the bullpen or making spot starts. So, basically next year's Yankee team will be the same as this year's, minus 50 million dollars, and plus a new centerfielder.

Blitzkrieg

Administrator

It's everyone on the current roster. This isn't the opening day roster. Even so..$150,000,000+ when the next team in at $120,000,000 and there are only 3 teams over the 100 mark, and many teams under 50.

Disco Raheem

Sports without salary caps are a real joke. I'm not a big fan of drafts though, as fostering young talent through a well organized developement system is just part of running a good team. Buying star players from other clubs isn't.