With the latest deal, A-Rod to the Yankees, all but complete and their payroll which will be around 190 million.
I wonder would baseball be better off with a salary cap or atleast a much large
penalty "luxury tax", where teams cannot just brush it off. What is it now is
17.5% for every dollar over the threshold, set at 117 million, and on the second
time over its 22.5%. In 2004 the threshold rises to 120.5 million.
Now in 2003 the Yankees's taxed payroll value was at 184 million and obviously the 11+ million they
paid had no effect on them.
Just a question would baseball be better with:
Hard salary cap: Like football, you don't go over or its a million dollars a day, and the nfl has the right to cut
players starting from the lowest salary up until your under the cap.
Soft salary cap: Like basketball, where with certain exceptions allows teams to be over the cap, allowing
players to stay with teams for long periods of time. Which is much harder with a hard cap.
Luxury tax system with a bigger penalty for being over. Make the penalty much bigger, something that
even teams like the Yankees cannot just brush off.
Same system they have. Basically the system is working fine and has no problems.
Nothing. We don't even need a luxury tax.
Just curious what ATOT thinks. Also for all intensive purposes, to not make this a Yankees vs Red sox argument,
lets say that the cap level/threshold would be below whatever the current Red Sox payroll is. So they would
have to cut payroll too.
I wonder would baseball be better off with a salary cap or atleast a much large
penalty "luxury tax", where teams cannot just brush it off. What is it now is
17.5% for every dollar over the threshold, set at 117 million, and on the second
time over its 22.5%. In 2004 the threshold rises to 120.5 million.
Now in 2003 the Yankees's taxed payroll value was at 184 million and obviously the 11+ million they
paid had no effect on them.
Just a question would baseball be better with:
Hard salary cap: Like football, you don't go over or its a million dollars a day, and the nfl has the right to cut
players starting from the lowest salary up until your under the cap.
Soft salary cap: Like basketball, where with certain exceptions allows teams to be over the cap, allowing
players to stay with teams for long periods of time. Which is much harder with a hard cap.
Luxury tax system with a bigger penalty for being over. Make the penalty much bigger, something that
even teams like the Yankees cannot just brush off.
Same system they have. Basically the system is working fine and has no problems.
Nothing. We don't even need a luxury tax.
Just curious what ATOT thinks. Also for all intensive purposes, to not make this a Yankees vs Red sox argument,
lets say that the cap level/threshold would be below whatever the current Red Sox payroll is. So they would
have to cut payroll too.