The Invasion- MLB owners trying to instill a salary cap
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🗓️ 30 May 2026
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May 29th, 2026
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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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