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Auggie

(31,816 posts) Tue Feb 28, 2023, 09:37 AM Feb 2023

Salary Cap? Not if the Player's Union has a say.

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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Salary Cap? Not if the Player's Union has a say. (Original Post) Auggie Feb 2023 OP

He is representing the players Casady1 Feb 2023 #1

Baseball needs a salary cap... Wounded Bear Feb 2023 #2

Absolutely! Green Bay, Kansas City, Buffalo, Cincinnati ... Auggie Feb 2023 #3

I generally agree with the Union but arguing players believe in kairos12 Feb 2023 #4

Agreed! ProfessorGAC Mar 2023 #5

Casady1

(2,133 posts)

1. He is representing the players

Reply to Auggie (Original post)

Tue Feb 28, 2023, 09:43 AM

Feb 2023

I guarantee that the players don't want a salary cap.

Wounded Bear

(60,723 posts)

2. Baseball needs a salary cap...

Reply to Auggie (Original post)

Tue Feb 28, 2023, 09:43 AM

Feb 2023

It has served the NFL well.

Auggie

(31,816 posts)

3. Absolutely! Green Bay, Kansas City, Buffalo, Cincinnati ...

Reply to Wounded Bear (Reply #2)

Tue Feb 28, 2023, 09:54 AM

Feb 2023

levels the playing field for small market teams.

kairos12

(13,256 posts)

4. I generally agree with the Union but arguing players believe in

Reply to Auggie (Original post)

Tue Feb 28, 2023, 05:29 PM

Feb 2023

the "market system" while operating in a legal monopoly is face cracking laughable.

ProfessorGAC

(70,123 posts)

5. Agreed!

Reply to kairos12 (Reply #4)

Thu Mar 2, 2023, 07:29 PM

Mar 2023

Also, I find describing their organization as a union.
I worked with & around union people for decades.
Not once did I know one that had a contract different from the others.
It's more a guild of independent contractors that doesn't resemble what my dad belonged to. (Teamsters)
Also, those unions were looking for the best deal, but they weren't trying to harm the employer. They understood the deal has to work for everyone, including those outside the loop.
The MLBPA has never been concerned about the greater good of the game.
Marvin Miller was 50 years ago. The owners are closer to partners than adversaries. The need for militancy ended long ago.

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