{"id":314314,"date":"2025-11-28T12:58:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-28T12:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/314314\/"},"modified":"2025-11-28T12:58:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-28T12:58:08","slug":"why-would-hal-steinbrenner-yankees-support-mlb-salary-cap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/314314\/","title":{"rendered":"Why would Hal Steinbrenner, Yankees support MLB salary cap?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Around this time next year, Major League Baseball\u2019s labor battle will be in full swing, likely just a few days away from a work stoppage beginning.<\/p>\n

One of the biggest sticking points between the league and union will be the possibility of a salary cap in the new Collective Bargaining Agreement. Most players and agents almost certainly will argue vehemently against it while smaller-market owners will almost certainly be in favor of it \u2014 and maybe more than just them, considering Hal Steinbrenner\u2019s stance.<\/p>\n

Steinbrenner, the owner of a team that consistently is among the highest spenders in the sport<\/a>, reiterated this week that he would consider supporting a cap as long as it comes with a \u201creasonable\u201d salary floor.<\/p>\n

But \u2026 why? Would instituting a cap eliminate one of the Yankees\u2019 greatest strengths in their ability to outspend other clubs?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Around this time next year, Major League Baseball\u2019s labor battle will be in full swing, likely just a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":314315,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,164516,177804,591,2704,15011,85,735,7306],"class_list":["post-314314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-hal-steinbrenner","tag-inside-the-yankees","tag-mlb","tag-new-york-yankees","tag-post-sports-newsletters","tag-sports","tag-sports-plus","tag-trent-grisham"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=314314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314314\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/314315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}