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https://www.mlb.com/news/teams-with-mos ... lb-history

5 of the 10 are within the last 7 seasons. Changes to free agent compensation, amateur draft and internation signing have all benefitted big market teams. Lack of a payroll cap is another factor.

Small and mid market teams need to stand firm when the collective bargaining agreement expires in December.

Baseball built itself as the national passtime over a century, not without challenges but with leadership that protected the integrity of the game to ensure long-term success. We live in a short-term success era, where MLB routinely makes changes to impact the immediate and without much thought to long-term implications. MLB is starting to face some of the long-term implications of decisions made within the last 2-3 decades and it's going to get worse. I don't know how this can be avoided or resolved favorably for the long-term. Idiots like Manfred will apply band-aids, without even giving a thought to any cans they're kicking down the road.

Mathematically, if MLB expands to more teams, it opens the door for further dilution of talent. Payroll, draft picks, etc, are factors into that. Inevitably there will be bigger potential losers in some years with further expansion.