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Post by yankeesgm on Jan 2, 2019 6:43:35 GMT -5
Should we think about increasing the salary cap? $120M was established 7-8 years ago and real salaries have climbed since then.
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Post by Steve (Padres) on Jan 2, 2019 9:08:49 GMT -5
Should we think about increasing the salary cap? $120M was established 7-8 years ago and real salaries have climbed since then. I don't disagree - makes it a tougher call to outright franchise a Harper-level stud. I'd be a little worried that simply raising the salary cap would mess with the rest of the ecosystem since we don't really have any sort of inflation built in to the rest of the market. I'm of the opinion that we're not to the point yet where a Harper-type contract is the normal, and until then I think holding steady at 120M is perfectly fine. |
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Post by visor on Jan 2, 2019 11:30:26 GMT -5
How about a cap on Franchise salaries? We could take an average of top 10 salaries to establish the cap.
i.e if Harper signs for 30 million a year and the cap was established at 25 you sign him for 25 million.
you could assign a penalty if it goes over a certain percentage say $10 Million. i.e Harper signs for $40 and the cap is $25 then you pay $5 million penalty for each year over percentage cap.
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Post by Jay - Reds on Jan 2, 2019 13:17:26 GMT -5
Managers start to budget their team Well before the end of the season. I think if the cap goes up we should all know what it’s gonna go to 2-3 years in advance. Some players were traded knowing they would be difficult to sign or keep in the following season.
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Post by Jay - Reds on Jan 2, 2019 13:26:10 GMT -5
I do like the max of 25M AAS Suggestion
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Post by Steve (Padres) on Jan 2, 2019 14:46:18 GMT -5
How about a cap on Franchise salaries? We could take an average of top 10 salaries to establish the cap. i.e if Harper signs for 30 million a year and the cap was established at 25 you sign him for 25 million. you could assign a penalty if it goes over a certain percentage say $10 Million. i.e Harper signs for $40 and the cap is $25 then you pay $5 million penalty for each year over percentage cap. I definitely like this idea pretty much without changing anything. |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 2, 2019 16:10:54 GMT -5
I think with how the rest of the salary structure isnt changing to account for inflation, the cap is only really affected by players that are franchised with a RL salary structure. The capping of franchise salaries is interesting though and think it might work. Cap at 25M like in UFA and pay a signing bonus to make up the rest of the actual AAS that the player actually signs for and give signing team an opportunity to spread it out over life of contract.. ie. Harper signs for 33M AAS for 8yrs.. our cap is 25M... signing bonus would be 8M x 8yrs = 64M... pay out the 64M over life of contract or maybe put a max on the signing bonus and spread it out. Something to think about.
I also still want to revisit the realigning of league or elimanation of automatic division winners to get playoff seeds. Its very apparent that there are some divisions that are MUCH stronger than others and seems like some of those teams are penalized for being in those division. We arent a true 32 team league so trying to keep these divisions isnt really necessary, IMO. We could easily keep just an AL and NL conference. That alone would help fix the problems with some divisions being strong than others because its really just one AL and one NL division that separate themselves.
I think there was something else, but I forget atm. Will post again if it comes back.
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