NFL Stuff

[Gunner55]

MLB's does have it's own version of the salary cap but they call it a luxury tax, or more specifically it's the Competitive Balance Tax. https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2023/12/eight-teams-combine-for-record-209-8mm-in-luxury-tax-bills.html The #s there are a year old but it also kind of gives you an idea of how it works & how that money is split up.

[Rookie]

That's a joke. Those teams still sign who ever they want. Just look at that signing of Soto.

[Steve-o]

MLB's does have it's own version of the salary cap but they call it a luxury tax, or more specifically it's the Competitive Balance Tax. https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2023/12/eight-teams-combine-for-record-209-8mm-in-luxury-tax-bills.html The #s there are a year old but it also kind of gives you an idea of how it works & how that money is split up.

From the article:
The $209.8MM in tax revenues will be split up in three ways by the league.  The first $3.5MM is devoted to funding player benefits, $103.15MM will go towards funding individual player retirement accounts, and the other $103.15MM will be put into a supplemental commissioner’s discretionary fund and distributed amongst revenue-sharing recipient teams who have grown their (non-media) local revenue over a pre-determined number of years.

What the hell does that mean?     So they take a measly $103MM and split it between 22 other teams and they call that competitive balance?     That's only like $4.7MM per team per year?   

[Rookie]

Baseball needs a Salary Cap not a Luxury Tax to level the playing field and make it equal to make it easier for the smaller city franchises to compete like the Twins.

[dutchboy]

Baseball needs a Salary Cap not a Luxury Tax to level the playing field and make it equal to make it easier for the smaller city franchises to compete like the Twins.

Never happen.

[Gunner55]

I agree, db. This from another pc on MLB's version that's dated 12/22/23.........................This past season, MLBPA executive director Tony Clark took a hard stance against that idea despite believing it eventually will be MLB's goal:

"We’re never going to agree to a cap. Let me start there. We don’t have a cap. We’re not going to agree to a cap.”