re: Major League Baseball Needs a Salary Cap.

I also think there is a difference between teams that shed payroll in a concerted effort to rebuild via the draft and trades and rebuild in order to compete and those teams that keep payroll low simply because they are cheap and have no interest in competing.

The Cubs the last few years for that profile. Large market team that shed payroll while they were rebuilding because why waste money when you are clearly rebuilding? Difference is the Cubs were still middle of the pack spending and now have a bunch of prospects, are showing signs of the turnaround, and will spend money in the future to win as they've demonstrated. Pittsburgh has no interest in trying to compete.

That's my argument against a salary floor. Sometimes it's part of the plan but the teams really are building to compete.