re: Major League Baseball Needs a Salary Cap.

I can think of many players that were traded or let go because they couldn't afford them, just off of Cleveland alone...

CC Sabathia
Cliff Lee
Jim Thome
Manny Ramirez
Francisco Lindor
Trevor Bauer


Upcoming...

Shane Bieber:

Salary:

2017: $420,000
2018: $545,000
2019: $559,600
2020: $623,200
2021: $679,700

1 year extension:

2022: $6,000,000

Again, like i have been saying, some team like the Dodgers or Yankees will come in and pay Bieber $35 mill like the Yankees did with Cole. How is Cleveland supposed to compete with that? You guys can say all you want about owners making hundreds of millions of dollars...but that's jut being dishonest with the reality of the situations.

New York Metro = 18,000,000
Cleveland Metro = 2,000,000


Cleveland just doesn't have the finances to compete with organizations like the Yankees, Dodgers, Red Sox etc etc....