salary cap anyone?

[Donn Beach]

The positioning is beginning for the next collective bargaining agreement and its looking the battle line could be over a cap, even a Steinbrenner is joining the chorus

the Dodgers contract with Scott as the final straw

There was something about the four-year, $72 million contract given to left-hander Tanner Scott in January that infuriated fan bases in every market outside of Los Angeles -- even the only one that dwarfs it.

"It's difficult for most of us owners to be able to do the kinds of things they're doing," New York Yankees owner Hal Steinbrenner told the YES Network a week after the Scott deal.

That the Yankees -- the most valuable franchise in baseball, the game's foremost revenue machine, owners of the highest payroll each of the first 14 years this century -- had joined the chorus typically reserved for smaller-market teams questioning the game's fairness was no accident. Even if formal discussions about Major League Baseball's next collective bargaining agreement are half a year away, the campaign to capture the hearts and minds of the paying consumers has already begun.

https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/462 ... on-lockout

[Vogelbomb]

Will never happen.

I do agree with a salary floor though

[GL_Storm]

I don't think it will happen. But we could lose the 2027 season over it.

[Donn Beach]

I don't think it will happen. But we could lose the 2027 season over it.

yeah, it comes down to resolve, if you have the yankees behind the idea the resolve could deepen

[Pharmabro]

The positioning is beginning for the next collective bargaining agreement and its looking the battle line could be over a cap, even a Steinbrenner is joining the chorus

the Dodgers contract with Scott as the final straw

There was something about the four-year, $72 million contract given to left-hander Tanner Scott in January that infuriated fan bases in every market outside of Los Angeles -- even the only one that dwarfs it.

"It's difficult for most of us owners to be able to do the kinds of things they're doing," New York Yankees owner Hal Steinbrenner told the YES Network a week after the Scott deal.

That the Yankees -- the most valuable franchise in baseball, the game's foremost revenue machine, owners of the highest payroll each of the first 14 years this century -- had joined the chorus typically reserved for smaller-market teams questioning the game's fairness was no accident. Even if formal discussions about Major League Baseball's next collective bargaining agreement are half a year away, the campaign to capture the hearts and minds of the paying consumers has already begun.

https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/462 ... on-lockout

Why not the other sports have it.

[Donn Beach]

The positioning is beginning for the next collective bargaining agreement and its looking the battle line could be over a cap, even a Steinbrenner is joining the chorus

the Dodgers contract with Scott as the final straw

There was something about the four-year, $72 million contract given to left-hander Tanner Scott in January that infuriated fan bases in every market outside of Los Angeles -- even the only one that dwarfs it.

"It's difficult for most of us owners to be able to do the kinds of things they're doing," New York Yankees owner Hal Steinbrenner told the YES Network a week after the Scott deal.

That the Yankees -- the most valuable franchise in baseball, the game's foremost revenue machine, owners of the highest payroll each of the first 14 years this century -- had joined the chorus typically reserved for smaller-market teams questioning the game's fairness was no accident. Even if formal discussions about Major League Baseball's next collective bargaining agreement are half a year away, the campaign to capture the hearts and minds of the paying consumers has already begun.

https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/462 ... on-lockout

Why not the other sports have it.

well i would say mainly you will need to get the players association to go along with it

[GL_Storm]

If the owners want it badly enough, they'll need to agree to financial transparency of revenues. I doubt the bargaining gets past that point. The owners are a pretty arrogant bunch.

[Donn Beach]

If the owners want it badly enough, they'll need to agree to financial transparency of revenues. I doubt the bargaining gets past that point. The owners are a pretty arrogant bunch.

Good point, wonder what the framework could possibly look like, that is it though

[HawkandMariner88]

Would they at least agree to a floor. Why would the players be against it they still make enough.

[Donn Beach]

If the owners want it badly enough, they'll need to agree to financial transparency of revenues. I doubt the bargaining gets past that point. The owners are a pretty arrogant bunch.

by not being transparent they give the impression of making a trailer load of money which might not be the case. The motivation for a salary cap could be mostly raising the value of franchises

At the end of the day, as a large-market owner acknowledged, more than focusing on flattening payrolls and increasing competitiveness, the primary benefit -- and motivation for a significant number of owners -- of a cap is increasing franchise values. If baseball teams are a break-even business, as officials often contend, the easiest area in which owners can make a return on their investment is in the growth of the asset. In recent years, the owner said, the value of MLB franchises has plateaued, particularly when compared with the three capped sports, prompting frustration among owners and impelling the push for a cap.

"That's what this is all about," one longtime labor lawyer said. "That if the costs are fixed, the franchise values will go up."