Spreading the wealth spreads the talent, too: baseball's financial playing field probably won't ever be level, but the sport is making progress.(Baseball)

Yankees this, Yankees that--enough already. Major League Baseball's revenue-sharing plan is working, with several have-nots demonstrating greater spending power than in the past.

No one would suggest that the playing field is level; it never has been in baseball and probably never will be. But at least MLB is showing progress in ways it hasn't before.

Progress after only two years of a four-year labor agreement that redistributes money from the rich teams to the poor in unprecedented amounts.

Progress that suggests even greater possibilities if MLB expands its current program and doesn't go all NHL on us when the agreement expires after the ...