San Diego Padres players are taking a firm stance on a potential MLB salary cap with this latest message. <\/p>\n
Padres second baseman Jake Cronenworth revealed players across the league wholeheartedly agree on one thing: there should be no salary cap in MLB. <\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve taken a pretty hard stance on that,\u201d Cronenworth, who is a member of the union\u2019s eight-player executive subcommittee, said to the Times of San Diego<\/a>. \u201cNot just this year, but forever. I think that shows the unity and the strength of the Players Association. Everybody can agree on that, absolutely.\u201d <\/p>\n Padres right-handed pitcher Nick Pivetta also explained why the league shouldn’t follow in the steps of the other three major sports. <\/p>\n \u201cI think you see what NFL, NBA and NHL players have to deal with on a daily basis with their contracts,\u201d Pivetta, who is one of the Padres player representatives, said. \u201cI don\u2019t think we want to follow in that direction. We allow the market to be what it is and allow it to be a free market and make the adjustments in the CBA to help the guys who are being taken advantage of.\u201d<\/p>\n MLB Potential Salary Cap Explained <\/p>\n The league’s collective bargaining agreement expires on Dec. 1, 2026. The main point of contention is whether the two sides will agree to implement a salary cap, which has sparked rumors of a potential lockout for the 2027 season. <\/p>\n There will be familiar names on both sides of negotiations, as explained by MLB insider Jeff Passan. <\/p>\n “There is a 38-member executive board of players, made up of eight elected, high-ranking subcommittee members (Cy Young winners\u00a0Paul Skenes\u00a0and\u00a0Tarik Skubal, plus veterans\u00a0Chris Bassitt, Jake Cronenworth,\u00a0Pete Fairbanks,\u00a0Cedric Mullins,\u00a0Marcus Semien\u00a0and\u00a0Brent Suter) and one representative from each team — the delegates for the rank-and-file,” Passan wrote. <\/p>\n “For the league: Deputy commissioner Dan Halem is the lead negotiator, commissioner Rob Manfred the ultimate authority. The league’s labor policy committee — headed by\u00a0Colorado Rockies\u00a0owner Dick Monfort, who is joined by Hal Steinbrenner (New York Yankees), John Sherman (Kansas City Royals), Jerry Reinsdorf (Chicago White Sox), Ray Davis (Texas Rangers), Jim Pohlad (Minnesota Twins) and Mark Attanasio (Milwaukee Brewers) — is the proxy for the 30 owners.” <\/p>\n If the league does enter a lockout, this won’t be the first time a season is delayed. MLB’s Opening Day was pushed back in 2022, but a full 162-game season was still played. Games haven’t been missed due to a lockout since 1994-95.<\/p>\n For more Padres news, head over to\u00a0Padres on SI<\/a>\u00a0and follow us on\u00a0X\/Twitter<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"San Diego Padres players are taking a firm stance on a potential MLB salary cap with this latest…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":521691,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":["post-521690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521690","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=521690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521690\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/521691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=521690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=521690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=521690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}