For as long as baseball has been around it was a sport without salary caps. With the last CBA it seems like there is a hard salary cap for both domestic and international drafts as well as payroll. Literally every team is treating these caps (and the punishments for going over) as “hard caps” including big money teams like the Yankees and the Sox. It’s even more apparently when we see marquee FA sitting unsigned thru spring training, when that never happened in past CBA’s.
The MLBPA must be kicking themselves for what they agreed to. And I bet negotiations for the next CBA will be even uglier as players realize they are screwed. I also highly doubt that the owners will give up this defacto “hard cap”
Hopefully it doesn’t end up in a long strike. Baseball kind of recovered from the last one, i don’t think they will be as lucky now.
The MLBPA must be kicking themselves for what they agreed to. And I bet negotiations for the next CBA will be even uglier as players realize they are screwed. I also highly doubt that the owners will give up this defacto “hard cap”
Hopefully it doesn’t end up in a long strike. Baseball kind of recovered from the last one, i don’t think they will be as lucky now.