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>An interesting parallel is baseball. It's funny you choose baseball as the sporting example, as it's without a salary cap. If you look at hockey and basketba
by forgetsusername 11y ago
>An interesting parallel is baseball.
It's funny you choose baseball as the sporting example, as it's without a salary cap.
If you look at hockey and basketball, this has been a strategy for a long time because teams have to remain below the salary cap. As such, bad contracts are traded around all the time to make room for payroll. Stars sometimes change teams for essentially nothing but cap space.
I guess it interesting that a baseball team is doing it in a world where there are no spending caps.
- phamilton 11y agoTrading for cap space isn't using deep pockets as a weapon. It's just balancing the books. When a team like the Marlins has a payroll of $80M and the Dodgers are at $300M, there's a much more predatory effect at play.
- askldfhjkasfhd 11y agoBaseball implemented the luxury tax system, which operates at a soft cap. So while it's technically accurate to say no salary cap, there does exist a financial mechanism by which team payrolls (and by association, player salaries) are limited.