Salary Cap for Baseball

Another winter of “big-money free agents” is shifting the balance of power in both leagues somewhat, but there continues to be one constant in the free agency game; the domination of the large market franchises upon the game of baseball. This winter Mike Mussina, top pitcher on the free-agent market and the New York Yankees, baseball's most successful team, agreed to a six-year contract worth and unbelievable 88.5 million dollars. Manny Ramirez requested a 10 year 200 million …

…to salaries is an important but secondary concern” (92). Major League Baseball needs to establish a salary cap. With out a salary cap who knows how many more World Series the Yankees could win in a row with no other teams dishing out as much cash as they do. Baseball needs to establish a salary cap for the sake of competition; so all teams have at least some chance at competing for a world’s championship.