{"id":263763,"date":"2025-11-05T17:15:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T17:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/263763\/"},"modified":"2025-11-05T17:15:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T17:15:07","slug":"kansas-city-royals-vinnie-pasquantino-says-mlb-salary-cap-isnt-the-answer-you-may-think","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/263763\/","title":{"rendered":"Kansas City Royals\u2019 Vinnie Pasquantino says MLB salary cap \u2018isn\u2019t the answer you may think\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-leagues-and-governing-bodies \">Baseball fans have taken to social media in recent days to call for MLB to institute a salary cap, but Royals 1B Vinnie Pasquantino yesterday responded to the discussions on X by writing that a cap \u201cisn\u2019t the answer you may think it is,\u201d according to Pete Grathoff of the K.C. STAR. When a fan responded that Pasquantino\u2019s stance was \u201cbased on his desire to get a big contract,\u201d Pasquantino wrote, \u201cThe type of player I am actually thrives in salary cap leagues, so I am technically hurt by the system we have.\u201d The conversation then \u201cturned to deferred salaries,\u201d which Pasquantino acknowledged \u201cis a problem, but said it was beneficial to the players.\u201d He wrote, \u201cAs far as competitive balance goes I\u2019m with (you) on deferred contracts being an issue. As a player though it makes a lot of sense, especially tax wise if you\u2019re in California or a high income tax state because on the deferrals you get paid where you live.\u201d He added, \u201cIt\u2019s not as simple as a cap. \u2026 There\u2019s a reason we push back on it so much. \u2026 We\u2019re not pushing back against this simply for fun.\u201d Grathoff wrote MLB players \u201cworry that a salary cap could suppress how much money they earn,\u201d and that owners \u201cwould get a larger share of the financial pie\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kansascity.com\/sports\/spt-columns-blogs\/for-petes-sake\/article312769692.html?tbref=hp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.kansascity.com\/sports\/spt-columns-blogs\/for-petes-sake\/article312769692.html?tbref=hp\">K.C. STAR, 11\/4<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Baseball fans have taken to social media in recent days to call for MLB to institute a salary&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":263764,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[3307,49,48,462,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-263763","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-mlb","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=263763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263763\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/263764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}