The issue of spending within baseball teams has continued to be a problem in MLB. It has long been a part of America's pastime, stemming as far as collusion against the players in order to manipulate the market prices of free agents. Nowadays, it mainly takes the form of team owners refusing to spend big money on their teams. New San Francisco Giants outfielder Joc Pederson is not having any of it.

Pederson posted a tweet that blasted the cheap owners of the league for spending so little on player salaries. The Giants' recent signee showed the three highest team payrolls compared to the three lowest, which reveals insane differences.

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Having such massive discrepancies is a disgrace to the sport. Although baseball partially allows such discrepancies by having no salary cap, they also have no salary floor, allowing teams to cry poor and spend much less than other teams. Even Pederson's Giants, who are just outside the top 10 of MLB team payrolls, pay over $100 million more than each of the bottom four teams in salary money.

The Baltimore Orioles' payroll is less than that of 14 individual players. Spending less money on a team while it's rebuilding is commonplace among all sports and is a reasonable strategy. But doing so on scales this massive is a strong indictment against those teams' owners. Owners who resort to slashing payroll at drastic rates should simply sell their team. The issue is also a huge blemish on MLB commissioner Rob Manfred and the league for allowing it to persist.

San Francisco doesn't show such cowardice, which allowed them to lure Pederson away from the defending-champion Atlanta Braves.