If MLB loses the 2020 season, a salary cap should be part of its vision for the future

It’s a cap!

In no other major American team sport is success tied so inextricably to market size. To put it in language any fan can understand: There are no Green Bay Packers in Major League Baseball. There are no New Orleans Saints. There are no Kansas City Chiefs. And there never will be.

Unless — hold on for a second, because saying this out loud has been known to send certain segments of the baseball community into apoplexy — the team owners and players association agree on revenue sharing and a salary cap.

Big-league baseball is the only one of the five male major leagues that operates without a cap and with big-market teams blessed with bountiful local TV deals. It is the only one that has evinced no sense of partnership among the players and owners both within the confines of the COVID-19 pandemic and through broader recent history.