Defending the best interest of baseball

Salaries are sky high, but one player has the potential to blast the market into space. Alex Rodriguez has the option to opt out of his record setting contract to set a new one. No player in the game today has a yearly salary in the 30 million dollar range, but A-Rod has the possibility to do that. Players continually state that they're not looking to cash in just want what they're worth, they want market value (http://epaper.tfponline.com/WebChannel/ShowStory.asp?Path=ChatTFPress/2007/02/21&ID=Ar02904). If Alex does opt out and get 30 million per year the market value will rise. Mediocre players will be adding an extra five million onto their overpriced contract. For example, Ted Lilly has a contract of four years for 40 million. He has a career record of 74-65, hardly over a .500 win percentage, and if A-Rod had gotten 30 million last year Ted Lilly probably would be looking at four years for 60 million dollar contract. One record setting contract will increase the market value, which will raise the already sky high salaries. The MLB commissioner's job is, "defending the best interests of baseball", which gives Bud Selig the power to nix any deal he thinks is out of line. I think that if A-Rod opts out of his contract and is offered a 30 million dollar deal Bud Selig should nix the deal. The MLB doesn't have a salary cap, like the NBA, NFL, and NHL, and even if it were to happen it would take a long time to take effect. For the "best interests of baseball" a salary cap needs to be implemented to stop these inflating salaries. Until then Bud Selig should continue to nix deals that will increase the market value.