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Should MLB Have a Salary Cap? No. Baseball Needs a Floor
Should MLB have a salary cap? No. Over the last 20 titles, the NFL, NBA and NHL haven't crowned more different champions than baseball, and both World Series teams spent less than the owners' own proposed floor. The fix is a floor, not a cap.
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