The Last 25 Championships--MLB has the Best Model

[PotKettleBlack]

[quote:b6d098fb84="Mr. Baseball World"]As long as we agree that making the economic playing field in baseball more level would not mean fewer different champions nor make the game less competitive, then n argument here.o[/quote:b6d098fb84]

Here's something less thought of.

Perhaps it would.
Perhaps parity prevents rich markets from competing with swift small markets, and so Tampa Bay would dominate the AL East under a cap.

Which might produce a world with TB winning multiple series and thereby reducing the number of teams with hope on opening day or beyond.

I could easily see this happening with a hard cap and revenue share.

[Mr Baseball World]

It is possible that there would be fewer champions. It would not be caused by a level economic playing field, it would be caused by the skill level of each organization from the top down(with some luck always a factor).

[motherscratcher]

Macnole.

I'm ignoring the "facts" huh? Are the referring to the single fact you are presenting (that there are a lot of different teams to win championships) and using that to come to the conclusion that there is parity and no team has an advantage over another?

No mas

[JEROMEWILKINS]

the one thing everyone is missing here in baseball......there are numerous owners that have a tremendous amount of money as the Steinbrenners do. Unfortunately many of these owners choose not to funnel as high a percentage of money into the team as the Steinbrenners do. As long as the Yankees have been owned by the Steinbrenners winning is all that matters. An attitude not shared by all owners. Also if you think the Yankees have not experienced this win at all cost (expense) attitute then see the CBS ownership years and how that affected winning in NY. Also spending money does not always translate to winning in baseball...just look at over the years how the Mets have spent money very unwisely on players that never fit their team right from the start...(Vaugh and Bay just to name a couple recently.) Could there have been a worst expenditure of money than what they spent on Jason Bay...homer hitter in a hughe ballpark coming off a terrible second half with the Red Sox. The Red Sox would have made a much bigger effort to keep him if they thought he was worth it. obviously this happens with all teams but the mets always seem to be signing these guys. Just my two cents here.

[warrenbob52]

Yes I agree that their are other owners that have alot of money But the Yankees have an advantage over every other team in the Major leagues with their TV contract which allows them to pay all their players from that and not dip into their personal wealth. If the TV contracts were shared like in football they would not have this advantage.

[dinsdale]

As we all know from playing strat, the best regular season team does not always win! Baseball allows 8 teams into the playoffs and once you are in anything can happen. In other sports you might make the playoffs but you really have little chance. The nature of the game, anyone can beat anyone in a short series.

To truly assess the impact of money let's look at playoff appearances? Over the past twenty years rank the teams in order of playoff appearances and you will see the disparity.