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I don’t want to see a cap system in baseball because I believe open competition for talent produces the best competition for championships. I also don’t want to see a cap system in baseball because it would make analyzing the off-field game a miserable slog.
So I am approaching these next nine weeks with anticipation, in the hopes that most teams will go into the freest talent market in domestic sports and try to get their share of players from it. I am hoping for more deals like the Mets and Rangers just pulled off, matching needs in the hopes that both teams can get better. Give me creative contracts, give me aggressive one-year pillow offers, give me some of the league’s bottom feeders surprising us by doing more than checking for their next revenue-sharing EFT to hit. Give me trades that make me write my hands off.
