@SaveFarris_PSN said in Bryce Harper:
@LHUBison58_XBL said in Bryce Harper:
A greatly expanded revenue sharing system, a floor and a ceiling is fair. The players will still get paid, but the elite 3% won’t get as much.
Expanded Revenue sharing won't work (at least the way MLB currently defines it) because they base it on revenue, not market size. A team like St. Louis is punished for being a small market with enormous revenue while a team like Washington is rewarded for being a large market with smaller revenues.
The problem isn't people like Harper and Ohtani getting mega-contracts Their respective teams have already earned their investment back and then some. It's teams like Miami, Oakland, and Tampa getting outdrawn by a college baseball team 5 years running.
I was 8 when the Marlins won in 1997. Many Marlins fans have never seen a team be good for more than just a brief period. The team screwed the fans over from day 1. It's hard to support a franchise that doesn't give a [censored] about the fans or the product on the field. We are likely trading Sandy Alcantara away this week. Add him to Miguel Cabrera, Christian Yelich, Derrick Lee, Josh Becketts of the world. I don't know why the Rays don't get more support, but I can explain the Marlins. It's just hard to invest in a team when the ownership won't do the same and this is coming from someone who watches just about every game. Driving an hour into Little Havana to watch Eric Wagaman stike out 5 times a game is not something that I'm willing to do when I know that any other team would've acquired a better option at 1b when the team is just 6 games out of the wild card and they have gotten nothing out of a position that should be producing much more offensively.
