NEW YORK – New York Yankees chairman Hal Steinbrenner stopped short of explicitly calling out Oakland A's owner John Fisher for dereliction of duty. But at the owners meetings Tuesday in New York, he levied a less specific critique about team owners who fail to invest to the extent of their ability, at the expense of the on-field product.
“I don’t know enough to know about the situation in Oakland, except to know that it’s not a good situation he’s in,” Steinbrenner said when asked if he would publicly decry Fisher’s lack of spending.
“I've always said that fans should not go to the first spring training game knowing that their team has no chance of making the playoffs,” he said. “That's just not good for the game. It's not good for the industry.” That said, Steinbrenner said the issue is more of a “philosophical” one — bad teams are bad for baseball. And while cheap and bad are not always correlated, one can certainly cause the other.
Historically, owners have cited the competitive imbalance created by MLB payroll disparity as a justification for pursuing a salary cap in collective bargaining with the MLB Players Association. Steinbrenner said he would be open to supporting a cap — “depending on what it is, of course” — provided it would be implemented along with a payroll floor.
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