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“While commissioner Bud Selig is proud of the game’s financial prosperity, he tells Mike Bauman of MLB.com that his favorite achievement is “competitive balance.” Bauman cites revenue sharing and the luxury tax as mechanisms that have, in Selig’s words, brought “hope and faith” to more major league fanbases.”
“Competitive balance” will not be achieved in this league until there is a hard salary cap. Until MLB reins in the big spenders, ie. Yankees, Red Sox, Dodgers, etc. all this talk about competitive balance is a sham. Sure the Yankees and Red Sox don’t win every year but they win A LOT.
The league eventually has to decide what they want. A competitive league where teams can keep home grown talent, continuing this pattern of big spenders and AAAA teams (Royals, Pirates, Reds, etc.) that develop talent only to have them leave via free agency to the big market franchise. OR contract all the small market teams and leave the big teams on the coasts.