question: "Why does MLB want a salary cap? The league is positioning its salary cap stance as the panacea to competitive balance issues. Regardless of some small-market, low-revenue teams' ability to construct some of the best teams in baseball -- the Tampa Bay Rays, Milwaukee Brewers and Cleveland Guardians are perennial winners under the current system -- large-market, big-payroll teams have won the past 10 World Series. Combine that with the dominance of the Los Angeles Dodgers and league polling that shows fans want a cap-and-floor system like the NFL, NBA and NHL, and it has emboldened the league to pursue change, even if the union regards a salary cap as a declaration of war. Multiple owners and high-ranking team officials have told ESPN that stagnating franchise values are every bit as much the motivation for a number of owners as whatever competitive balance a salary cap would ostensibly bring. Perhaps the tepid growth of MLB valuations compared with the other three major men's professional sports is changing -- the San Diego Padres recently fetched $3.9 billion, a record sale for a baseball team -- but owners' calculations are simple: Fixed costs make a business more attractive for prospective buyers. And for organizations that claim to be cash poor, the sale price is paramount to their investment." I found the second paragraph a little more interesting since all owners likely share those same beliefs regardless whether they are a big or small market team.