The thing with the Pirates is, their core in a year or so could look like this: Konnor Griffin Oneil Cruz Paul Skenes Jared Jones Braxton Ashcraft Bubba Chandler Seth Hernandez Mason Montgomery Edward Florentino Esmerlyn Valdez Murf Gray Imagine if Nutting wasn't a loser.

I see a lot of cap talk on my feed lately and I never see anyone mention the fact that if the league does set a cap, I'd assume the penalties on drafting will also even out as well. Below is how the Yankees draft capital has compared with Pirates over the decade. Significantly fewer/less: - Draft pool money - Top 100/150 picks in the draft - IFA money Smaller market fans always complain (although it is very untrue as of late) how big market teams like the Yankees/Dodgers/Mets can't develop their own guys and solely rely on stealing other teams' players. Not only is this obviously untrue through the last 3 years for those 3 teams, big market clubs draft with SIGNIFICANTLY less draft capital/IFA money and have to almost be perfect in their development + draft to really get value out of their system. I would assume given a cap and the equal opportunity for all owners to compete that these draft penalties are weakened a significant bit. I say this as someone whose best friend lives in Pittsburgh and knows how much those fans are dying for good baseball and has wanted to see that market succeed for a while. I've long thought the Pirates/Reds/Rockies/etc... baseball operations were more problematic than their payrolls (which are obviously also extremely problematic). Very poor drafting and development + a lot of surplus value lost in trades, I've felt, has been the bigger plague in most of these systems.

Due to the fact that the 3 teams left standing the Brewers, Rays and Guardians are all considered small market teams change your mind in wanting a salary floor and cap?

Their also ignoring the salary floor of it all. A salary floor is even more important than a salary cap and THAT is pro worker

@RealMichaelKay the NYY need to 🛑 signing/trading for players form LOSING organizations!! Especially players who have ZERO playoff experience Ryan. Colorado. Losers. Jazz. Marlins. Losers. Ramos and Jose came from LOSERS as well!! Brandon Lowe is the man. SB Jeffers must platoon with Wells. Jojo Romero in BP. Lock up Bednar and Blackburn.

But... it doesn't though

Anti-cap Marlins fan here.

Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney (D-NY) gives a speech on the House floor in a full burqa to demonstrate the repressive conditions women and girls face under Sharia Law in places like Afghanistan.

There’s a Japanese dude dressed as Marlins man sitting behind home plate