Small market teams arent forced to do anything. Their ownership is being greedy. There's more than enough shared revenue for any team in baseball to afford one of these big deals.
The Mets are going to pay a $73M tax on what they’ve spent so far. Small market teams with owners who aren’t Cohen can’t compete with that. I don’t see how this isn’t an issue with competitive balance? And even if it’s enough to pay one of these deals they can’t keep the rest of their players. So they sign one guy, lose the rest and then have to deal that guy anyway similar to what the Marlins did with Stanton. And I disagree that ownership is being greedy. Even with shared revenue some of these owners aren’t nearly as flush with cash as you’d think.
