Salary Cap? Not if the Player's Union has a say. [View all]
Associate Press / 02-27-23
Some owners are arguing for significant change to lessen payroll disparity when the current labor contract expires after the 2026 season, and MLB established another committee to examine economics.
“History would suggest that an economic committee ... is really hyperfocused on a salary cap — or getting to a salary cap when we next sit down to negotiate,” union head Tony Clark said Saturday.
“We’re never going to agree to a cap. Let me start there. We don’t have a cap, we’re not going to agree to a cap,” Clark added. “A salary cap is the ultimate restriction on player value and player salary. We believe in a market system. The market system has served our players, our teams and our game very well.”
Clark suggested some teams maintain low payrolls as strategy rather than because of lack of revenue.
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Words of a greedy, out-of-touch asshole. Few teams can match the BILLION DOLLAR media rights that the Dodgers receive. Wealth disparity is undermining baseball, just as it undermines Democracy.
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