Strat-O-Matic Baseball 365

And I quote:

Salary dumping. You may not jettison talent from your team, hold a "fire sale", or otherwise make wholesale changes to your roster that reduces the overall salary value of your team. ... If you violate any of the above rules, at our discretion, Strat-O-Matic.com will seize control of your team and you will not be eligible for a refund. Repeat offenses will result in a ban from ever playing the game again.

By that standard, the Miami Marlins should be banned FOREVER from Major League Baseball. I can't count how many times they've ripped apart a good team and replaced it with a AAA squad. Just sayin'.

Except in real life unlike strat you get to pick up the next year where you left off. It is after all a keeper league.
So a team can dump salaries save lots of money stockpile talent and if timed just right with spending some of the money saved right latch on to a championship.

Marlins have done it twice. Who knows this may lead to a third. Regardless two more than say Seattle.

Cubs did similar on a smaller scale leading to a championship.
Houston really took it to the extreme and won a championship.

And Miami is not the only team doing it this year. Seems like half the teams in baseball are on this path of selling out everything targeting rock bottom. It is going to backfire for a lot of them because everyone cannot lose more than everyone else and get that top pick. Several teams are going to find out at the end of this season they did not go far enough and end up with decent teams and middling draft picks.

Baseball for a while had the best parity in all of sports. But the system right now is flawed. Everyone is either a buyer or a seller (tanker) and the middle class in baseball like life is disappearing. I see this as a much bigger threat than the pace of play crap.

Is there a point to be made somewhere on this thread?

Does the original poster think salary dumping SHOULD be allowed?

All I was saying, on behalf of the unfortunate baseball fans in South Florida like myself who've had to endure repeated salary dumps over the years, is that in the interest of competitiveness and fair play, MLB should have similar rules and penalties in place as we do in SOM online.