{"id":632610,"date":"2026-03-20T00:08:17","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T00:08:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/632610\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T00:08:17","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T00:08:17","slug":"mlb-owners-could-be-unified-over-salary-cap-as-lockout-questions-loom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/632610\/","title":{"rendered":"MLB owners could be unified over salary cap as lockout questions loom"},"content":{"rendered":"

How likely is a lockout? Well, the latest word is that MLB owners just might be unanimous in support of a payroll cap, which is vehemently opposed by the players union.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The biggest-spending Dodgers<\/a> and Mets are believed likely willing to go along with the call for a cap, and one source suggested the lowest-spending teams are actually enthusiastic in their support even though they\u2019d have to raise their player payroll significantly to get above any proposed floor.\u00a0<\/p>\n

While it\u2019s too early to know what ceiling and floor MLB will favor, some early estimates suggest the proposed ceiling might be around $280 million (negotiable, of course), meaning the Dodgers, Mets, Yankees and others would have to work hard to get under a cap, though they\u2019d be given years to do so. (The Yankees support the cap.)\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"NewMets owner Steve Cohen speaks to the media during spring training at Clover Field on Feb. 16, 2026, in Port St. Lucie. Corey Sipkin for the NY POST<\/p>\n

Mets owner Steve Cohen\u2019s spending habits<\/a> and willingness to lose money (an estimated $200M plus annually) in pursuit of a ring suggest he wouldn\u2019t ordinarily prefer the cap route. But other owners believe he\u2019ll be a team player and ultimately be supportive of league plans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"How likely is a lockout? Well, the latest word is that MLB owners just might be unanimous in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":632611,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[5,57,4,2046,61,62,185,430,428],"class_list":{"0":"post-632610","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-los-angeles-dodgers","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-mlb-free-agency","12":"tag-new-york-mets","13":"tag-new-york-yankees","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-sports-columnists","16":"tag-sports-plus"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116258597646988099","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=632610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632610\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/632611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=632610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=632610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=632610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}