Hot take: baseball already has parity. Small market teams are excelling. Expanded playoffs, weak central divisions and good analytics departments accomplished almost everything you would want from a salary cap. The Reds and Pirates are the only true small market doormats. Neither has fielded a competitive team in almost 40 years. But they are the exception. Those owners need to sell the team instead of pleading poverty. I suppose you could throw in the Twins into this category, too, but they’ve at least made the playoffs with some level of regularity, despite early exits. The other perennial doormats—Rockies, Marlins, White Sox, Orioles, Angels and Athletics (when they were in Oakland)—are actually middle-to-big market teams (albeit some sharing another team in the same TV market) with ownership that isn’t willing or able to invest the amount required to win. And the other small market teams—Royals, Cardinals, Indians/Guardians, Tigers, Rays—have won at least one pennant in the last 15 years. In a 30 team league, that’s parity.