What do you think would happen if baseball put in a salary cap next year?

What if, for whatever reason, Bud Selig put a salary cap on baseball next year? Do you think that it would dramatically change baseball? I hear all the time about how baseball needs a salary cap, so if it finally was put in place, what do you think would happen?|||It depends on what the salary cap was set at. If it was set at 150,000,000, then yes, the Red Sox would be just as screwed as the Yankees. If the salary cap was set at 200,000,000, then the Yankees could just get rid of someone like Lance Berkman and be under the limit. And then still have some money left over to replace him. (Berkman's 2010 salary- $14,500,000, team salary- $206,333,389. 206,333,389-14,500,000=$191,833,389 total salary) I don't think it would be as catastrophic as everyone thinks it would be, it just depends on what the cap was set at.|||Teams like the Yankees and Redsox would have to sell the farm to get under cap creating a free agent bonanza. After that we don't know who would be good because caps tend to even everything up and potentially change the tide of every team. This doesn't necesarily mean small market teams automatically become winners and big market teams become losers though. It simply sets them on an even plain. The Yankees could spiral, or they could sitll be good, depends on what the replacements do. Hell even the Pirates could be good if they make the right moves. It'd turn the entire leauge on it's head. Anyone can be good, anyone can suck.|||You people just don't understand how Major League Baseball operates. The Commissioner does NOT have to authority to unilaterally put in a salary cap. Plus, if the owners tried, there would be a walkout by the Players Union.





Sarge|||I would severely anger 5 or 6 teams. Make 10-12 teams very happy and be indifferent to the rest. The Players Union would strike. And we would lose out on a year or more of baseball.|||The Yankees would still be the best team. Haters would just claim the Yankees cheated again. It would be no different than before.|||the yankees would **** their pants, they would probably be really bad as all the other teams would secure their players.





i think its a great idea if it means the yankees being even as other teams.|||Simple, and dismal -- amazing no one got this right yet -- 2011 season wiped out by players' strike. And that's all of it.|||The yankees would be ******|||Cheer girl knows a thing or 2 about failing.


@ Cheer girl %26lt;--------- Epic failure at life|||Big market teams would pretty much be screwed. The Yankees would be getting rid of much of their team.





The reason is because there would be so little time to make a decision. If a salary cap was put into baseball, there would be more time........maybe a 5 year thing so teams could prep for it. It would certianly make baseball more even but a salary floor is needed more.|||The Yankees will not be as good. And other teams will be able to compete.|||it would be great. Competition would be more fair.|||yankees = fail