Baseball Salary Cap: Does It Really Work For Baseball? by Kenny Watkins of http://www.sports-gift.com Many years people have complained that baseball needed a salary cap. Well baseball answered everybody's request and now people are still complaining. So what is a salary cap? Does it really work?
So what is a baseball salary cap? It's a figure that Major League baseball determines that you can't spend on your team in players salary. It usually changes every year. If you do go over the salary cap there is a heavy fine imposed.
The salary cap was put in so the smaller market teams could compete with the larger market teams. Teams from Los Angeles and New York seem to get all the good players so this was a solution that Major League baseball has tried.
Has it worked? No not really. The big market teams still get the big name players. The salary cap doesn't bug the big market teams because they have the money to pay whatever fine that is imposed on them.
Is there a solution to this? I guess a yes and no answer will have to suffice here. Yes the only real solution is to enforce a set amount for a salary cap, but the major teams will never agree to it.
I guess a salary cap is a good item if it's implemented right, maybe one day Major League baseball will do it the right way. Let's hope it's soon so everyone has an equal chance of seeing their team in the World Series.
The way that it is set up now it is still not working just look at the New York Yankees. They were already over the salary cap and paid a hefty fine every year and they still went out and got the most expensive player in baseball Alex Rodriguez. Alex makes 25 million dollars a year by himself, in some cases this is close to what whole teams make combined like the Milwaukee Brewers and the Washington Nationals.What baseball needs to do is get a salary cap like the NFL or NBA has. This will never happen because of the baseball players union.
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About The Author Kenneth Watkins is an avid college football fan as well as a successful sports author and regular contributor to http://www.sports-gift.com. A free service for people to find the best sports fan gift idea for the sports fan in their life. | 
