Sports Take

The Los Angeles Dodgers signed Mookie Betts to a 12 year $365 million contract extension, that will average out to $30.4 million a year. To spend that much on a single player and to still be able to afford putting your team on the field says that you have the money to do it, what about the other teams in MLB? For that matter what about in the past with the Yankees of old, or the Red Sox who could pay anyone and everyone to play with those teams. The MLB is a league of who has the money, who has the most to spend on their players. The game has become somewhat corrupt and a little unfair to the smaller market teams like Tampa Bay, Minnesota, San Diego. When was the last time you thought of those teams and went “they have a shot this year.”? You wouldn’t have. Implementing a salary cap would allow those teams who don’t necessarily have the finances to field reasonably competitive teams, it’ll also make the games more enjoyable because if you watch the Dodgers and the Padres for example, well you wouldn’t watch it because the Dodgers would probably win. By a lot. The answer to the heading question is yes, MLB does appear to need a salary cap if for nothing else than to make it more competitive for franchises that need it desperately. Hopefully the league notices how this would be the best course of action for the league and makes the change to help the game.