Dave Roberts on MLB having a salary cap: “If you’re gonna suppress spending at the top… make those bottom feeders spend money too.”

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  2. Cap will absolutely never work without a floor. 

    I don’t think a cap will be implemented though. Maybe a second apron type solution like the NBA has but I doubt a hard cap is coming. 

  6. I don’t follow CBA negotiations very much, but I assume the players’ union would be against the cap without some type of floor. Who in their right mind would agree to “owners must spend less money”?

  7. He’s not wrong, but there is no way those…frugal… (trying to be polite) owners will ever agree to a floor.

  11. Nothing groundbreaking here but it is funny to have Dave Roberts straight up call them bottom-feeders. 

  15. We all know this. The issue is that a floor won’t change as much as people might hope because the cheap owners would just spend up to that floor and then no more.

  16. EVERY team, in EVERY city, CAN and are PERFECTLY able to spend like the dodgers. EVERY owner has enough cashflow to spend as much as the yankees and/or dodgers, and OUTSPEND em if they want to.

    They don’t. By choice. It’s a calculated choice to put out a lower quality product.

    “rah rah rah dodgers are ruining baseball” lol

    rofl even.

    Your SHITTY owners are ruining baseball and ruining baseball parity. Dodgers aint got nothing to do with that.

  17. I think at least half the team in the league don’t want a cap. A salary floor is one of the reasons

  20. Anyone with common sense would say we need a salary ceiling and a floor. Teams like the Yankees, Mets, and Dodgers shouldn’t be able to buy every player out there and teams like the Pirates and Marlins shouldn’t be able to get away with fielding a bunch of mostly nobodies and pocketing the revenue sharing money.

  21. Well yeah that should go without saying. Only capping the ceiling benefits the teams who won’t or can’t spend way more. I don’t think anyone seriously expects to cap the upper limit but leave the floor bottomless

  23. If they do this I don’t expect the floor to be significant. Fuckin’ Rockies aren’t going to try to sign guys all of a sudden.

  25. The marlins payroll is a full $100m below the middle ranked Mariners. That’s a problem.

  27. I agree with what he’s saying, but Dave Roberts has been observed to be a rat, so I don’t know what to think

  29. What they need to do is guarantee a certain % of revenue to the players.. But then there needs to also be a pool of money, maybe revenue sharing that goes to pay for player performance.

    Free agents signed above a certain amount would not be eligible for the performance money, but everyone else would. So young players who do well would get a lot more money, but some players who do poorly would not.

  31. Such an inflammatory headline.

    Yes, Dave advocated for a floor, but he also seemed pretty happy with the idea of a cap and a good revenue sharing model.

  33. There. Is. No. Salary. Capped. League. Without. A. Floor.

    Players will receive the same share of revenue. But, gasp, some guys will have to make a lot of money to play in Tampa or Cleveland or Pittsburgh instead of all the high paid guys teaming up in like six cities. Less experienced guys will get paid more sooner. The vast majority of union membership will benefit from the salary floor spreading the butter across teams. A select few will continue to threaten to beat up the commissioner lest they lose nothing and their less elite teammates gain something.

  34. “~~If you’re gonna suppress spending at the top~~… make those bottom feeders spend money too.”

  36. WTF is with dave roberts decor? “Hey, I need some help, do you have any non-de-script white baskets?”

    We sure do

    “I’ll take’em.”

    I bet that top row has dead kittens or some shit.

  37. When did the guy from Good burger and the star of Soul Plane become sports commentators and why was I not informed?

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