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The Invasion- MLB owners trying to instill a salary cap

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🗓️ 30 May 2026

⏱️ 13 minutes

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May 29th, 2026

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0:00.0

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0:15.5

Let's talk a little major league baseball because we are headed six months from now or so to what everybody believes could be a very

0:29.4

ugly time period for baseball.

0:34.4

Because the collective bargaining agreement expires and if they cannot come to an agreement

0:42.0

with the Major League Baseball Players Association and the owners, then when that current CBA

0:48.1

expires December 1st of this year, the owners will lock out the players until a new deal is in

0:53.1

place.

0:59.4

So the first stages of the negotiation have happened.

1:08.5

The first one was on Wednesday when the union, the players union, sent their proposal to the league, which includes higher CBT thresholds for competitive balance tax,

1:14.4

as well as a higher minimum salary.

1:16.4

And not only a higher minimum salary, the current minimum salary is 750.

1:20.8

They want it at $1.5 million, so completely doubling that.

1:24.4

And a tax on teams that they want a salary floor of $150 million.

1:32.1

So those are kind of the basics that the players throughout, the owners, and this is where

1:41.1

this is going to get ugly, the owners won a hard salary cap.

1:46.0

And yesterday, in their proposal to the union, they proposed their first firm cap

1:52.6

since the last time they proposed one in 1994.

1:57.1

And for those of you who might not have been alive or don't remember, in 1994 when that happened,

2:02.2

I believe it was around August when the players went on strike,

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