Salary Cap

Should there be a salary cap in baseball? That has been a topic for many years now to try and balance out the competitive balance in the MLB. Every other pro team has one why not baseball it would make a lot of sense to do so. In MLB you have teams with payrolls of 100 plus million dollars and teams with payrolls of less 30 million dollars, its not fair to the smaller market teams because they can not get the best players during free agency like the big market teams can which tends to lead that the bigger market team will have a better season than the smaller market team. A-Rods salary for this year alone 22.7 million http://www.sportsline.com/mlb/players/playerpage/8023 is almost as much as the entire payroll of the Tampa Bay D-Rays 24.1 million http://www.sportsline.com/mlb/salaries. With a salary cap there would be a more balance the payrolls of the teams. But there are some teams that did or will make the playoffs with smaller payrolls like the Indians with a payroll of 61.7 million http://www.sportsline.com/mlb/salaries and they have the second best record in the AL. That is one of the few cases that smaller market teams can make the playoffs but it is few and far between so there should be a salary cap in baseball to fix the competitive balance in the MLB.