Owners have been "privately discussing" a salary cap for over forty years. They've been publicly discussing it for equally as long. They've violated the CBA colluding to implement one throughout that time as well. They have violated federal labor law illegally implementing one unilaterally as well.
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Alex Sherman
Sources tell me and @lillianrizzo.cnbc.com that MLB and team owners are privately discussing changing the economic structure of baseball. One idea includes instituting a salary cap and floor to improve competitive balance. But will the MLBPA go for it?
Story here: www.cnbc.com/2025/04/10/m...
Story here: www.cnbc.com/2025/04/10/m...
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The owners love to simplify this to Gate - Salary. Ignore revenue sharing, media rights, Disney's purchase of BAM Tech, the 50 cents in concessions sales they get off the top, tax holidays, publicly financed stadiums, etc etc
keep your credibility and walk away.
If your only argument is equivalent spending=competitive balance, you may be irredeemable.
And, they put out the same PR puff pieces about how it would benefit the players both times.
Last time @evandrellich.bsky.social saw through it. https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/2777830/2021/08/18/sources-mlb-proposes-salary-minimum-funded-by-new-tax-on-teams-spending-180-million/?source=emp_shared_article
The *floor* would need to be $180 million to match the NFLs cap based on total cap vs revenue
Owners are deeply unserious about anything but being cheap
I think players should want it, frankly, and their aversion to it has cost them money.
It's not a leak.
It's not "sources."
It's a concerted PR strategy.
If this were good for the players the owners would not be trying to do this for decades. Restraining costs/salaries is NOT GOOD FOR THE PLAYERS.
It's PR.
Somehow, I don’t think the owners are going to offer any of those.