Reply To: Salary Cap By Team

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In fairness there are a lot of fixed costs to running a team or stadium.  So simply attaching a percentage is a little off

 

If  you generate more revenue baseball is a game of escalating returns so you can afford to pay a higher percentage of them to players.  Example.  Everyone’s front office. Stadium.  Parking concessions and promotion might run $100mil a year.  Whether you’re generating $200 mil or $500 mil.

obviously the team generating $500 mil can afford to pay more since they have $300 m more to work with.  Which also bumps  the percentage.

Dodgers have spent. But so have the Mets.  Ya Kees. Phillies.  Nationals for a time. Padres for a few years.  What the dodgers have done is spend wisely and build that farm system.  Those young players are currency and Friedman has used them repeatedly in deals.   Betts.  Edman.  Glasnow.   Turner and scherzer.

LA spending money is only half the story.  Maybe even less than half.  Their player development.  Their scouting.  Their training staff.  And Friedman are the best in the game