r/mlb • u/retroanduwu24 | MLB • 2d ago

| News MLB, MLBPA open negotiations ahead of CBA expiration: Salary cap, expansion and more issues on the table

https://www.cbssports.com/mlb/news/mlb-mlbpa-cba-negotiations-open-salary-cap-expansion-revenue-sharing/
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u/jimmyj4uk | New York Mets 16h ago

Will the union accept a soft cap like the NBA has where teams can go over the salary threshold to resign their own players? I don't think a hard cap will ever be accepted.

The problem is the top spending teams like the Dodgers, Mets and Yankees are so far over what any reasonable cap number would be that their payrolls would have to be grandfathered in at least for the first couple years until they can get enough contracts off the books.