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Russ · 10-17-2009, 04:06 PM

If there was a salary cap in baseball, do you think the M's would have been able to keep A-Rod, Junior, Randy Johnson, Edgar, Tino, and Buhner together? They would have been cut to make cap space as soon as A-Rod and Junior needed contract extensions. Look at football and how many players are cut each June and the player movement in that league.

I think you're also overrating the salary cap's influence on parity in the NFL. The NFL season of 16 games is an exercise in small sample size. Anything can happen over that stretch.

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