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[QUOTE="Alsacs, post: 3681829, member: 652"]
The owners have been on a spending freeze in free agency for multiple years.
Outside of a few the teams aren’t spending that much in FA.

Also MLB has a credit line of several billions with Bank of America available for teams if they need cash.

Most of these teams don’t want to spend in free agency.

As Knicks said their isn’t the same level of revenue sharing in MLB which is why the big market teams claim losses and use their RSNs they own to shelter money. The Red Sox owners can charge themselves whatever they want for broadcasting on NESN and then the payment isn’t eligible for the revenue sharing.

What is happening in baseball is teams are realizing what the Astros and White Sox did works. You completely bottom out and don’t spend anything and sell everything you have of value to other teams for prospects.
Then use the draft rebuild their farm system.

Once the White Sox didn’t trade for Tatis Jr. for James Shields and they didn’t win they realized the Astros strategy worked.
Baseball needs teams to actually want to try and win and just spend their money in manners to try and be competitive.
What the teams have done is freeze spending in Fa and they have knocked the middle class of players from getting decent salaries and just go young and inexperienced to keep money down.
Not because it helps the teams win but keep revenue spending down.
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