(07-13-2021 12:19 PM)Wedge Wrote:  

(07-13-2021 11:47 AM)dbackjon Wrote:  

(07-12-2021 04:36 PM)Nerdlinger Wrote:  MLB really needs to institute minimum and maximum payrolls. It'll probably never happen, but it would be good for the sport.

Yup - with greater revenue sharing.

The minimums would have to be really high in order to justify more revenue sharing; otherwise low-spending team owners will just keep pocketing the revenue sharing money rather than paying for a payroll at or near the MLB median.

Cleveland is a good example. The Indians have the lowest payroll in MLB, yet their team revenue isn't anywhere near the lowest. Their team revenue (ie not including revenue sharing or the national revenue divided among the 30 clubs) is significantly higher than that of (for example) the A's, D-Backs, and Tigers, yet the Indians' 2021 payroll is more than $30 million less than any of those three teams. Indians' fans should be disgusted. And MLB should not enable that with more revenue sharing.

Maybe a condition of receiving any revenue sharing money should be adherence to a minimum payroll that is at least 90 percent of the MLB median payroll. If an owner wants to pinch pennies, then he ought to have to do it without receiving even a dime of revenue sharing money.

I agree. However much revenue sharing money a team receives should be the very least that they'd be required to spend on payroll.