For several years, Major League Baseball teams (often the same ones) have been spending big dollars to seek championships.
We can think of the New York Yankees, the Houston Astros, the Los Angeles Dodgers or more recently, the New York Mets.
For a New York-area fan who doesn’t know much about baseball, bringing in stars to one of the city’s two rosters and putting in place new rules to speed up games are pretty appealing ideas. .
However, this rain of millions of dollars in major league baseball creates an obvious “imbalance” against teams in small and medium markets.
This phenomenon, which is growing over the years, is well known to the great manitou Robert Manfred and it was there before him.
He still believes that there is good and less good in this situation. Manfred takes example on the case of Steve Cohen and the Mets.
What Steve (Cohen) spent during the off-season is completely within our rules. He had every right to spend every one of those dollars. There are benefits to doing what he did. It offers something interesting for the Mets fanbase.
– Rob Manfred
“However, the disparity in teams’ ability to spend is a phenomenon that we need to analyze further. It has increased since I started in 1987 and it creates challenges for markets that benefit less from it, ”he admitted to the microphone of the Jon Heyman and Joel Sherman podcast.
As baseball enters a turning point with the new rules, will the next step for the commissioner be to look at the financial side or things will stay as they are?
By then, the Oakland Athletics’ mass is $77.1 million, while Max Scherzer and Justin Verlander’s combined salary is higher.
“Steve wants to win, that’s what we can say,” concluded Manfred.
- Big day for the Orioles receiver.
- Steve Cohen loves baseball.
- Jacob deGrom did not finish the fourth round.
- 105 MPH for the Reds pitcher.
- It was unexpected, that.
