03-26-2022, 08:43 PM
The way to drum up fan interest is to change the way that teams structure payroll. Smaller market teams can certainly win, but they generally go through cycles of being awful when they can't afford to pay players after rookie deals. You end up stringing together 3-5 years of sucking, and knowing that you're going to suck because you can't run with the big dogs in spending and you can't keep homegrown talent.
People always want salary caps, and that's fine, but there need to be floors as well. Stop letting cheapskate owners skimp on payroll. The Reds are bad enough, but look at Baltimore, Pittsburgh and Cleveland. The money they pay to their MLB rosters is absolutely an embarrassment.
Give as many fans of as many teams as possible hope that their team has a shot at being competitive at the start of every year. That's what the NFL does well, and that's what MLB sucks at.
People always want salary caps, and that's fine, but there need to be floors as well. Stop letting cheapskate owners skimp on payroll. The Reds are bad enough, but look at Baltimore, Pittsburgh and Cleveland. The money they pay to their MLB rosters is absolutely an embarrassment.
Give as many fans of as many teams as possible hope that their team has a shot at being competitive at the start of every year. That's what the NFL does well, and that's what MLB sucks at.
