In a report from ESPN – Major League Baseball proposed delaying the start of a salary cap until 2028, saying teams have too many commitments for next season that wouldn’t allow them to reduce spending quickly enough. A day after the start of free agent negotiations for the 2026-27 offseason, owners on Tuesday proposed to players that the sport adopt a hard cap of $258.2 million for 2028 and a floor of $180.2 million, using luxury tax payrolls with average annual values.
(The Pittsburgh Pirates had an opening-day payroll of just over $104 million this year. (Their reported Total Tax Payroll/Luxury Tax information showed an ending payroll of $137 million.)
Baseball’s five-year labor contract, reached in March 2022 on the 99th day of a lockout, expires December 1st and management is expected to again lock out the union.
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