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MLB won't ever get a salary cap and it's no wonder why the sport has lost popularity and people don't show up to games for the lesser franchises. Good for the Dodgers to keep pushing, but there is a cost in terms of the sport's fanbase as a whole for not trying harder to make sure these franchises are on somewhat even footing. There's no way you should have franchises at the same level be over $200 million apart in team salary. MLB would be much better if franchises had a higher salary floor and also a lower ceiling. This sport is made for parity, and yet some franchises never win. That's a huge problem.
 
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DZ83CK said:
MLB won't ever get a salary cap and it's no wonder why the sport has lost popularity and people don't show up to games for the lesser franchises. Good for the Dodgers to keep pushing, but there is a cost in terms of the sport's fanbase as a whole for not trying harder to make sure these franchises are on somewhat even footing. There's no way you should have franchises at the same level be over $200 million apart in team salary. MLB would be much better if franchises had a higher salary floor and also a lower ceiling. This sport is made for parity, and yet some franchises never win. That's a huge problem.
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On the other hand, being small market doesn't seem to stop the Rays or A's from fielding competitive to down right good teams year in and year out. Having good teams in small markets also doesn't seem to do much for attendance.

Big market teams have more room for error but like most things in life, I don't think you try to penalize the successful to make it "fair" for the unsuccessful. Punish teams like the Reds and Pirates for consistently failing to have a front office that can identify and develop talent.
 
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ScriptOhio said:
Gone are the days where I'd go to the newspaper's (i.e. Columbus Citizen Journal) sports section before school (or Columbus Dispatch on Sundays) to check out the box scores and major league averages:



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You can tell that's early in the season (probably 1977) as Manny Trillo and Paul Dade significantly outperforming their personal mean....
 
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AKAK said:
You can tell that's early in the season (probably 1977) as Manny Trillo and Paul Dade significantly outperforming their personal mean....
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Finally in 1977, Carew began to believe he could hit .400 as well. In 1977, after losing a tight batting race in 1976, Carew was ready to challenge the .400 mark. Carew began the season red-hot, and continued his pace into June. On June 26th he collected four hits against the White Sox, raising his batting average to .403. His highest mark was .411, on July 1st. After slumping a bit in August and early September, he caught fire and raced to the finish line to bat .388 – the highest mark since Ted Williams hit the same in 1957.
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https://thisdayinbaseball.com/rod-carew-page/

I'm guessing it's from Saturday, July 2, 1977.
 
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Jaxbuck said:
On the other hand, being small market doesn't seem to stop the Rays or A's from fielding competitive to down right good teams year in and year out. Having good teams in small markets also doesn't seem to do much for attendance.

Big market teams have more room for error but like most things in life, I don't think you try to penalize the successful to make it "fair" for the unsuccessful. Punish teams like the Reds and Pirates for consistently failing to have a front office that can identify and develop talent.
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In any other competitively "fair" pro sport does a team trade a player near the start of his prime like Trae Turner solely for financial reasons? It's one thing if a player wants traded. It's quite another thing that it is so common that MLB teams trade players in their prime solely because the players are about to be free agents and the teams know they won't pay the cost to keep them due to wildly different financial situations amongst teams in the league. It doesn't have to be this way.
 
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In any other competitively "fair" pro sport does a team trade a player near the start of his prime like Trae Turner solely for financial reasons? It's one thing if a player wants traded. It's quite another thing that it is so common that MLB teams trade players in their prime solely because the players are about to be free agents and the teams know they won't pay the cost to keep them due to wildly different financial situations amongst teams in the league. It doesn't have to be this way.
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I'm with you that the economics of baseball are unique but I don't think the solution is as simple as a salary cap.

You have a lot of small market teams that use it as an excuse to rake in the money and put a shit product on the field decade in and decade out. Find a way to make it hurt financially to suck on a 5 year weighted curve or something to go along with the current luxury tax and competitive draft pick tools. See if that wouldn't shake some of these nickel and dime owners up from putting their great great grandson in as the GM and shit like that.
 
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Field of Dreams Game: MLB unveils uniforms, stadium for White Sox vs. Yankees in Iowa

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Next Thursday, the Chicago White Sox and New York Yankees will meet in the long-awaited Field of Dreams Game in Dyersville, Iowa. The game was originally scheduled to be played last Aug. 13, but was delayed by the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Field of Dreams Game will be the first ever major-league game played in Iowa, and MLB constructed a temporary 8,000-seat ballpark adjacent to the property used in the film. The White Sox are prominently featured in the film, hence their inclusion in the event. The Yankees are the Yankees and a ratings draw.

On Thursday, MLB released updated images of the temporary ballpark, and also revealed the special edition uniforms the White Sox and Yankees will wear during the Field of Dreams Game. Here's the ballpark:

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Entire article: https://www.cbssports.com/mlb/news/...rms-stadium-for-white-sox-vs-yankees-in-iowa/
 
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