‘Til Death Do Us Part: Are Outlandish Contracts Good for Baseball?

As baseball continues to evolve and new players crop up, talent is becoming a premium.

Small market teams have to keep a different mentality than their large market counterparts. The Kansas City Royals will always operate differently than the New York Yankees; building a team through the draft and using their better players as trade chips rather than sign the big-name players available through free agency.

But while that fact will probably never change, there is a new, alarming trend in baseball which could prove damaging to the game itself.

More and more, teams are signing players to huge contracts that lock their payroll into a single player, thereby preventing them from growing in con...

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