Major Premier League Baseball: Fixing Baseball’s Competitive Balance

 An issue that has been plaguing baseball is massive inequalities of teams' abilities to compete consistently. High spending teams such as New York Yankees and Boston Red Sox can buy playoff berth (AL East team has held wild card 7 of the past 8 seasons). Small market teams, on the other hand, discount winning altogether and build teams with minimal payrolls to maximize revenues sharing profits.Both of these trends have hurt the appeal of baseball as up to a third of MLB cities' fan bases are already out of contention by mother's day.

 Baseball is a sport in a unique position. It is the only major sport that lacks both a salary cap and a promotion relegation system. With the strength of the ...

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