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Originally Posted by You Need a Thneed
It's been as much as 10x in the last few years. Not that 7x is very good. Keep in mind that the Yankees also payed 100 million in revenue sharing to other teams. It truly is killing the sport, baseball needs a salary cap - bad, and get back to having only a 2x difference between the top teams and bottom teams - lets say 120 million top to 60 M bottom, or even 140M - 70 M would work. Of course, there's some baseball teams out there that don't want to spend 60-70M
How they get that kind of revenue from such a boring, dull "sport" is another question. (but I suppose that's just my opinion)
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Why do they need a cap? They have different teams win the world series every year. They have new teams in the playoffs ever year. A team like Detroit can go from losing 100+ games to the World Series in a couple of seasons. Teams that spend money foolishly get punished severely like Baltimore and Texas. Teams that draft well and scout well succeed. There's nothing wrong with the baseball system at all.
Baseball fans are dedicated. They will watch religiously which brings in all the money.