Is baseball broken?

[shopson67]

81 legit?

20 legit?

Whatever let’s you sleep at night.

Of course they were. Every team was under those same circumstances.

 

[calsnowskier]

Of course they were. Every team was under those same circumstances.

Baseball is a marathon. Cutting out the marathon makes it not-baseball.

 

[socaljim242]

Obviously this has been discussed in multiple threads, just wanted to have a dedicated thread

I think there's arguments both ways

Pro: the Dodgers (and Mets and a few others) have obviously ramped up this discussion lately. There have always been big spenders and small market cheap teams but there have been periods where it was more glaring and this is one of those. Yes occasionally a small spender will sneak into the playoffs and even more rarely they win a title. But let's face it unless you are a fan of the 5-6 teams that get all the free agents you're probably pretty disgusted by the situation. Deferred contracts at least should not be allowed, they just add fuel to the fire.

Con: while TV ratings are declining (some of that is people moving from using TV to watch to the internet), or at least far behind football and basketball, overall revenues keep growing, TV contracts keep growing, salaries keep growing, franchise values keep growing. Until that all stops it's hard to argue the sport is "broken" and the owners and players have very little incentive to change it. Players are not fans, they don't care about competitive balance.

There hasn't been a repeat world series winner in ages . The NFL has a team going for its third in a row and has been in the super bowl four out of the last five years. But baseball is broken?

 

[socaljim242]

The "poverty teams" already can compete. They choose not to. All of these owners are billionaires.

The Padres were about as "small market" or "poverty" as it gets...then they decided to try to compete with the Dodgers...did they suddenly come into a bunch of money? Or did they decide to start spending?

As I said earlier, I heard yesterday that the Cubs made $500 million in profits but had a payroll of only $165 million.

The Padres had Snell , had Kirby Yates had Soto and let them walk or traded them. They competed for a year maybe two then let it blow up. That's not the Dodgers fault.

 

[msgkings322]

There hasn't been a repeat world series winner in ages . The NFL has a team going for its third in a row and has been in the super bowl four out of the last five years. But baseball is broken?

GOAT QBs and coaches gonna GOAT