[Passan] Bryce Harper stood nose to nose with MLB commissioner Rob Manfred and told him to “get the f— out of our clubhouse” if he wanted to talk about a salary cap
July 28, 2025
This is what we’re up against, hurray!
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> This is what we’re up against
What do you mean “we,” Kemosabe?
Do we want to be on the side of Nutting or the players? Just move it to Nashville already bro.
Who’s we? Either you’re pro owner or pro player on this situation
Yeah, who cares about the fans, right? What a jagoff.
The richest players/best don’t want a salary cap. They don’t benefit. It’s like hulk hogan pissing on the wwf union. Also fuck hulk hogan.
That tracks. He’s one of the small class of people who would get hurt by it. The vast majority of non-mega contract players would make more. It’s going to come down to whether the union leaders can bully the rank and file to act against their own interest.
The guy with a 13 year, 330 million dollar contract doesn’t want a salary cap?
Shocker.
It’s kind of like college football, once the door is opened to certain things, it cannot be closed.
I vote let the league go on strike. They need a salary cap and floor or else it’s just LA, NY playing in the big games. At the very least put in standard contracts to not allow what LA did with Ohtani, that is ridiculous.
Yes this won’t help the pirates since nutting can’t hire a GM for crap, but at least it will make it a little more fun to watch.
Of course the players won’t want the salary cap, guys like him and Soto would have to restructure their contracts to fit the MLBs needs. It’s needed though to make it fair for any club to compete and get certain free agents.
I couldnt imagine yelling at someone like this in any setting at work
Christ, the cap is for the betterment of the league
Wouldnt Harpers phillies actually benefit from parity? since they always seem to lose in the playoffs to teams with bigger payrolls?
Why are so many people in here saying “make Bob spend more”? Obviously he needs to spend more but if you think they can compete with the likes of LA, Chicago and New York then you’re delusional. MLB is the only non-capped league in all of professional sports. It needs to happen, it’s needed to happen for a long time. Just because Bob needs to spend more doesn’t mean we don’t need a cap.
Leagues with caps are better. In a cap system small
market teams actually have a chance to keep their stars and win championships. Not so in the MLB
God I’m legitimately praying this happens now just so Bryce Harper has to take a 5 million dollar pay cut (he’s still on an 330million dollar contract) so small market teams can compete and make the league better. Also, willing to bet a majority of the league who aren’t on 9 figure contracts are in favor of this
A salary cap does absolutely nothing for competitive balance, it just redirects more revenue towards the owners. It’s also never gonna happen anyway, because MLB doesn’t want an actually negotiated and proper salary cap; they want to unilaterally set a ceiling on payroll, not open up the books for the players to see the way they should if they were negotiating in good faith
An actual cap requires an audit system and total transparency, because the cap number is a set % of all baseball-related revenue. Does that sound like something any MLB owner wants to do? Didn’t think so. If MLB wants to even think about a cap, they better bring something like a re-structure of the arbitration and team control system (along with a salary floor) to the table on top of clarity and transparency. Until they do that as a first step, the players will laugh in MLB’s face, as they should.
14 comments
> This is what we’re up against
What do you mean “we,” Kemosabe?
Do we want to be on the side of Nutting or the players? Just move it to Nashville already bro.
Who’s we? Either you’re pro owner or pro player on this situation
Yeah, who cares about the fans, right? What a jagoff.
The richest players/best don’t want a salary cap. They don’t benefit. It’s like hulk hogan pissing on the wwf union. Also fuck hulk hogan.
That tracks. He’s one of the small class of people who would get hurt by it. The vast majority of non-mega contract players would make more. It’s going to come down to whether the union leaders can bully the rank and file to act against their own interest.
The guy with a 13 year, 330 million dollar contract doesn’t want a salary cap?
Shocker.
It’s kind of like college football, once the door is opened to certain things, it cannot be closed.
I vote let the league go on strike. They need a salary cap and floor or else it’s just LA, NY playing in the big games. At the very least put in standard contracts to not allow what LA did with Ohtani, that is ridiculous.
Yes this won’t help the pirates since nutting can’t hire a GM for crap, but at least it will make it a little more fun to watch.
Of course the players won’t want the salary cap, guys like him and Soto would have to restructure their contracts to fit the MLBs needs. It’s needed though to make it fair for any club to compete and get certain free agents.
I couldnt imagine yelling at someone like this in any setting at work
Christ, the cap is for the betterment of the league
Wouldnt Harpers phillies actually benefit from parity? since they always seem to lose in the playoffs to teams with bigger payrolls?
Why are so many people in here saying “make Bob spend more”? Obviously he needs to spend more but if you think they can compete with the likes of LA, Chicago and New York then you’re delusional. MLB is the only non-capped league in all of professional sports. It needs to happen, it’s needed to happen for a long time. Just because Bob needs to spend more doesn’t mean we don’t need a cap.
Leagues with caps are better. In a cap system small
market teams actually have a chance to keep their stars and win championships. Not so in the MLB
God I’m legitimately praying this happens now just so Bryce Harper has to take a 5 million dollar pay cut (he’s still on an 330million dollar contract) so small market teams can compete and make the league better. Also, willing to bet a majority of the league who aren’t on 9 figure contracts are in favor of this
A salary cap does absolutely nothing for competitive balance, it just redirects more revenue towards the owners. It’s also never gonna happen anyway, because MLB doesn’t want an actually negotiated and proper salary cap; they want to unilaterally set a ceiling on payroll, not open up the books for the players to see the way they should if they were negotiating in good faith
An actual cap requires an audit system and total transparency, because the cap number is a set % of all baseball-related revenue. Does that sound like something any MLB owner wants to do? Didn’t think so. If MLB wants to even think about a cap, they better bring something like a re-structure of the arbitration and team control system (along with a salary floor) to the table on top of clarity and transparency. Until they do that as a first step, the players will laugh in MLB’s face, as they should.