Okay, enough is enough! MLB has to institute a salary cap! It just plain
isn't fair!

The Yankees, yes the dreaded Yankees who many love to hate, are simply being
given a raw deal here. The Yankees players are being put in the very
difficult position of having to defeat opponents who actually love what
they're doing more than the money they're being paid to do. This simply
isn't fair to the Yankees. A salary cap would eliminate the psychological
disadvantage the Yankees have to endure year after year under the present
unfair system. So for the Babe's sake... let's have a cap!

gig
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I think they should have 7 pay levels. Period.
Example:
Rookies = $.1 - .5 mil. per year
2-3 year = $1mil
4-6 year = $3mil
6-10 yr = $4mil
over 10 yr = $5mil
God = $7mil
Better than God $9mil
#1...All levels get an automatic 5% yearly increase.
#2...5 man arbitration board.(there are always a few exceptions to the rule:
Ken Griffey III, or Ryan Howard, etc)
After 2 full seasons a player can appeal to skip one level if he's really
good. But "The Board" decides if he's worthy. Or a team may want to move a
player down one level if he's a real dork. Maybe the guy just got lucky one
year. Again, "The Board" decides. Some 10yr players (Bonds)are "better" than
other 10yr players, and some young guys are better than some old guys. "The
Board" decides if they're worthy. And if a player switches teams (his
request), he drops two levels and must wait a full year for any board
action.

Who to have on the board? Naturally me, and 4 Cubs fans. Take the names of
all Cubs season ticket holders (what a waste of money), put them in a hat,
draw out 4 names. (I picked the Cubs because they would know what a looser
looks like). We would meet every Tues night at the Nome, ND bar after my
darts match. Highway is usually deserted after 8pm. No problem for a small
plane.
This system would eliminate holdouts, players moving from team to team, or
having a team 'buy' a pennant. And most importantly, it doesn't matter which
team you're on, you get the same pay.

"Hank Jr" <Bart@bartland.com> wrote in message
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Works for me. :-)

....Actually, I always though if I was starting a league from scratch, I'd
pay everyone a base salary, say 2.5 million dollars. Then I'd pay by
performance. So much for a single, so much for double, a homer, etc., etc.
If you're not playing, your still get a base salary of 2.5M, so who could
complain after that? Then have individual team bonuses for each win.
Increase them in the playoffs. This system would pay the best players and
winningest teams the most money, while even the worst players and teams
would still earn a pretty good living.

Hank Jr <Bart@bartland.com> wrote in message
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How would you decide which rookies would make the maximum and which the
minimum? By the round in which they were drafted? By their rankings in
Baseball America? If that were the case, David Eckstein would have made the
minimum in his rookie year, Dewayne Brazelton the maximum -- and who had the
better year? The standard minimum salary for rookies is one thing about
MLB's salary structure that actually makes sense.

Howard, the Rock Cats fan

Hank Jr wrote:

But you still ahve the problem of a guy having a great year and then
getting a great contract, and then sucking air for the rest of his
career. So how about this: Everybody gets a minimum (say $300,000).
At the end of the season, each player is paid according to his numbers
for that year. As a lineup player you get so much per rbi, so much per
hit, per walk, per stolen base. Then maybe you get deductions for
strikeouts and caught stealings and errors. Pitchers would be
compensated using the same sort of method.

In fact, to make it really fair and create great incentives every day,
you could have a machine on the clubhouse wall. After every game, each
player's statistics are fed into the machine, and it issues checks
right then and there.

Brian J

On Oct 11, 8:49*am, "Brian J" <firstp...@turtlecreek.net> wrote:


Yep, that'll build teamwork. Can you imagine the whining everytime
someone was asked to sacrifice bunt?

powrwrap wrote:

Heck, pay 'em double for a sac bunt or sac fly. Oh wait. No, then
they'll all be doing it.

Brian J