{"id":423936,"date":"2025-12-04T10:57:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T10:57:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/423936\/"},"modified":"2025-12-04T10:57:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T10:57:12","slug":"dodgers-manager-dave-roberts-says-hed-be-all-right-with-mlb-salary-cap-after-record-415-million-payroll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/423936\/","title":{"rendered":"Dodgers manager Dave Roberts says he’d be ‘all right’ with MLB salary cap after record $415 million payroll"},"content":{"rendered":"

MLB’s next collective bargaining agreement negotiations are still a year away from needing to be done, but it has been made very clear that the biggest topic of conversation will be the potential imposition of a salary cap<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Fueling the arguments in favor of such a system is the presence of the Los Angeles Dodgers, who recently won their second straight World Series with a payroll in the neighborhood of $400 million. You would imagine that few members of the Dodgers would want anything that could limit spending, but manager Dave Roberts had a surprising perspective on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

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Appearing on Prime’s “Good Sports,” Roberts was asked by host Kenan Thompson if baseball should have a salary cap. He didn’t say yes, but he also said he’d be fine with the change:<\/p>\n

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\u201cYou know what? I\u2019m all right with that. I think the NBA has done a nice job of revenue sharing with the players and the owners. But if you\u2019re going to kind of suppress spending at the top, I think that you got to raise the floor to make those bottom-feeders spend money, too.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

That’s the same man who, a month and a half ago, openly mocked detractors who said his team was “ruining baseball.”<\/a> He apparently also has some thoughts on the “bottom-feeders.”<\/p>\n

The suggestion of a salary floor in addition to a salary cap, as Roberts throws out, has been speculated as the compromise that could get players to consider the idea of a cap, which has been a nonstarter in MLB labor negotiations going back to the advent of free agency. If team owners dig in, it would make a labor stoppage a near certainty.<\/p>\n

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MLB remains the only major North American sports league to not have a salary cap. In 2025, CBT payrolls range from the Dodgers and New York Mets ($338 million) to the Chicago White Sox ($92 million) and Miami Marlins ($85 million).<\/p>\n

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When counting only players who were on the Dodgers’ 40-man roster at the end of 2025, their payroll came in at $347 million, per Cot’s Contracts<\/a>. However, when adding in the factors that go into a CBT payroll, such as player benefits and salaries for players no longer on the roster, that number goes all the way up to $415 million, the largest in MLB history. The Dodgers will also pay about $167 million in luxury tax, meaning that, from a CBT standpoint, they just won a title that cost $582 million.<\/p>\n

The team already has $320 million on the books for 2026 and is likely to add more, given holes in its outfield and bullpen.<\/p>\n

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However, it’s hardly a given that a salary cap would spell destruction for L.A.’s current run, as it also possesses one of the most advanced player development pipelines in MLB and a farm system considered to be one of the best in baseball.<\/p>\n

Roberts is well aware that if the Dodgers suddenly need to lean on young, less-expensive talent, they have the resources to do so. A salary cap would remove only one way the Dodgers are outpacing the competition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MLB’s next collective bargaining agreement negotiations are still a year away from needing to be done, but it…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":423937,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[197705,1274,875,2502,1286,1266,1305,17000,52483,197706,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-423936","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-agreement-negotiations","9":"tag-chicago-white-sox","10":"tag-dave-roberts","11":"tag-los-angeles-dodgers","12":"tag-miami-marlins","13":"tag-mlb","14":"tag-new-york-mets","15":"tag-payroll","16":"tag-salary-cap","17":"tag-salary-floor","18":"tag-sports","19":"tag-united-states","20":"tag-unitedstates","21":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115660943952823506","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=423936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423936\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/423937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=423936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=423936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=423936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}