Another winter of “big-money free agents” is shifting the balance of power in both leagues somewhat, but there continues to be one constant in the free agency game; the domination of the large market franchises upon the game of baseball. This winter Mike Mussina, top pitcher on the free-agent market and the New York Yankees, baseball's most successful team, agreed to a six-year contract worth and unbelievable 88.5 million dollars. Manny Ramirez requested a 10 year 200 million …showed first 75 words of 1730 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1730 total…to salaries is an important but secondary concern” (92). Major League Baseball needs to establish a salary cap. With out a salary cap who knows how many more World Series the Yankees could win in a row with no other teams dishing out as much cash as they do. Baseball needs to establish a salary cap for the sake of competition; so all teams have at least some chance at competing for a world’s championship.