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When the lockout comes for MLB on December 1, what will be the main disagreement
Posted on 5/3/26 at 3:36 pm
Posted on 5/3/26 at 3:36 pm
So right now the CBA ends on Nov 30.
The owners want a salary cap
The players want increased spending and sharing
Most of the time people get on side of owners as it drags on.
I know there will be time of service, insurance, and guaranteed payments arguments as well.
ETA:
Does NCAA get another boost and will the owners use non MLB players to force the hand of players?
The owners want a salary cap
The players want increased spending and sharing
Most of the time people get on side of owners as it drags on.
I know there will be time of service, insurance, and guaranteed payments arguments as well.
ETA:
Does NCAA get another boost and will the owners use non MLB players to force the hand of players?
This post was edited on 5/3/26 at 3:38 pm
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Posted on 5/3/26 at 3:41 pm to sms151t
Salary Cap will be a big issue. Teams like the dodgers have only encouraged a strike because of there being no salary cap in recent years.
Posted on 5/3/26 at 4:23 pm to sms151t
Salary cap. The owners are prepared to lose the whole season. They are going to break the union this time.
Posted on 5/3/26 at 4:42 pm to msudawg1200
They better. It’s ridiculous what the players and agents get away with. Let them go play in Japan and see the difference in money.
Posted on 5/3/26 at 4:53 pm to sms151t
Salary cap, it’s been the 2 teams at the top the last couple of years- Mets and dodgers are almost always the last 2 teams fighting for the big free agents
Posted on 5/3/26 at 5:57 pm to OhioLSUfan
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Salary cap, it’s been the 2 teams at the top the last couple of years- Mets and dodgers are almost always the last 2 teams fighting for the big free agents
The cap is part of it but I feel like deferments are going to be a sticking point too. You sign for X amount to play Y years. The math should be simple. I doubt it gets outright banned, but it's gonna be capped hard.
Posted on 5/3/26 at 5:58 pm to LSUJuicer
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Salary Cap will be a big issue. Teams like the dodgers have only encouraged a strike because of there being no salary cap in recent years.
the t.v. deal the Dodgers have gives them a HUGE advantage over every team. Some would argue every other team could have done the same type of deal but that's not even close to the truth.
There was some very good fortune in the timing, but whatever.......their t.v. contract is twice what anyone else's is - and that's before all the other money they make. They can outspend anyone if they want, even Cohen, even the Yankees. You can say that's free enterprise and to some extent that's true, but it's a big problem for baseball.
Posted on 5/3/26 at 6:00 pm to sms151t
Salary cap and deferments (or how they affect the salary cap/luxury tax) will be the big sticking points.
Potentially a salary minimum.
Potentially a salary minimum.
Posted on 5/3/26 at 6:02 pm to LSUBoo
Thats Bagwell's big plan: tank, trade, rebuild quickly after strike
Posted on 5/3/26 at 6:08 pm to sms151t
My conspiracy is that the Mets and Phillies are intentionally tanking so that quiets things down about having a hard cap. 
Posted on 5/3/26 at 6:09 pm to Tiger Ugly
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t.v. deal the Dodgers have gives them a HUGE advantage over every team. Some would argue every other team could have done the same type of deal but that's not even close to the truth.
It isn't. They were allowed to shield a shite ton of revenue from revenue sharing and have another decade or so of that exemption.
Posted on 5/3/26 at 6:36 pm to LSUBoo
Yeah I think the deferments are more of a sticking point than the salary cap. But both will be an issue.
Posted on 5/3/26 at 6:54 pm to Srbtiger06
A strike at this time would kill the MLB..
Posted on 5/3/26 at 7:02 pm to sms151t
The NFL and NBA, two more popular leagues have effectively hard salary caps. There’s no reason why MLB shouldn’t either.
Hopefully the owners crush them.
Hopefully the owners crush them.
Posted on 5/3/26 at 7:09 pm to JoeyP239
But MLB has had more parity over the last 30 years.
Posted on 5/3/26 at 7:42 pm to witty alias
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MLB has had more parity over the last 30 years.
That just means the playoffs are a small sample size crapshoot… the Yankees haven’t had a losing season in 35 years. The Dodgers might have a similar streak if nothing is ever done
Posted on 5/3/26 at 8:26 pm to sms151t
Gambling is the only thing keeping MLB alive
Posted on 5/4/26 at 7:05 am to LSUBoo
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Potentially a salary minimum.
A cap is definitely coming with a floor to make the Rays, Marlins, A's, Pirates, etc spend
Posted on 5/4/26 at 7:15 am to Srbtiger06
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It isn't. They were allowed to shield a shite ton of revenue from revenue sharing and have another decade or so of that exemption.
Yep, and they can afford to take a bath on bad deals like Tanner Scott and Kirby Yates who both shat the bed last year after signing big $$ contracts with the Dodgers and it's starting to look like Tucker may be one of those too, but it's too early - I don't think he'll age well.
But they can absorb bad deals like that and not blink and eye.
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