Major League Baseball commissioner Rob Manfred acknowledged that a salary cap may be the answer to a growing discrepancy between big markets and small ones that's creating a gap in on-field competitive balance.
"I don't think anybody on the club side has made up their mind that a salary cap (system) is necessarily the answer. We have, over a long period of time, avoided making the salary-cap proposal," Manfred said Tuesday on the "The Show" podcast when asked about the system in place in the NFL, NBA, NHL, and MLS, according to Mark W. Sanchez of the New York Post.
"But there is one truism that is hard to ignore: There are arguably … five major professional sports in North America. Four of them have one system. One of them has a different system. I'm sort of a believer in the idea that the majority eventually gets it right. When you're the outlier, you have to ask yourself the question of: Does somebody else have the system right?"