• jqubed@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    I can’t read the whole article because of a subscriber login, but the author is complaining about the looming imposition of a hard salary cap in baseball, in response to the Dodgers’ spending.

    Have other U.S. sports been ruined by a salary cap, though? I found baseball kind of boring back when the Yankees were constantly winning by dramatically outspending everyone else. Moving the dominance from the nation’s #1 market to the #2 market doesn’t seem particularly interesting. It feels like we see more variety in winners—and smaller market teams—in other leagues. MLB has had more variety in recent years, perhaps because moneyball became a more popular way to compete, but if we go back to one team outspending everyone else and constantly winning, then it feels like things get boring again.