Manny Machado Will Not Hear A Decision Until January.

As Manny Machado and Bryce Harper offer their wares on baseballs open market, both are a decent bet to exceed the existing plateau for largest contract among North Americas major sports leagues.

Yet even though Major League Baseball does not have a salary cap, unlike its counterparts in the NFL and NBA, its chokehold on salary dominance among the three leagues is wobbling, as revenues boom in the NBA and a relative sense of austerity ripples through baseball.