I don’t understand being worried about the draft and tanking but doing nothing about major market teams being able to just outspend everyone? You’ve basically set up a system where small market teams are forced to either trade their star players to the major market teams for prospects or just risk losing them to those same teams on the open market however you punish most of these same teams by having a draft lottery. What the Mets are doing is silly. It shouldn’t fly in any sport if you truly wanted a competitive balance. If you’re going to punish these small market teams that thrive off of rebuilding through the draft then you should at least implement a salary cap so these major market teams can’t just buy everyone they want. It’s ridiculous.
