Small Market Teams Can Find Major League Baseball Success

If a salary cap is not the answer to all that ails Major League Baseball, how do small market teams remain viable while teams like the Yankees, Red Sox and Mets treat small market franchises like farm teams? Better decision-making and value-based decisions; General Managers with hands tied due to limited funds must creatively manage the personnel and find ways to maximize the talent and minimize the cost per win.

The current NBA Collective Bargaining Agreement creates an economic system that takes advantage of the poor (rookies) and the rich (superstars) and increases the wealth of the middle class. “In theory, above-max players and players on rookie contracts are the only players in the league that should be underpaid. Everyone else should be bid up to market in free agency,” (Pelton).