Trump says it's 'shocking' Major League Baseball still hasn't implemented a salary cap

There's a batch of speech astir whether the MLB needs to follow a wage cap, and present President Donald Trump is giving his sentiment connected the matter.

And helium is rather firmly successful the wage headdress camp.

OutKick's Dan Zaksheske asked the president astir the MLB's existent concern aboard Air Force One.

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"If you don't person a wage cap, you don't person a sport," Trump said. "They can't assistance themselves. In sports, they can't assistance themselves. Football has a wage cap."

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Not lone does the NFL person a wage cap, truthful excessively bash the NHL and the NBA, leaving the MLB arsenic the lone 1 of the 4 large North American nonrecreational sports leagues without one.

President Donald Trump speaks with reporters connected his mode to Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin, connected Friday. (Photo by Samuel Corum/Getty Images))

"They should've done it a agelong clip ago," the president said. "I cognize truthful overmuch astir sports, they should've done it a agelong clip ago."

Trump past mentioned his administration's efforts to enact laws regarding NIL, thing helium likened to a wage headdress successful nonrecreational leagues, and pointed to large schools losing hundreds of millions of dollars.

"You can't person that," helium said. "Nobody tin spend that."

The president circled backmost to baseball.

"Major League Baseball — it's shocking, frankly, that they didn't enactment a headdress connected years ago," helium said. "They had a accidental to bash a cap, and they blew it."

MLB players privation to rise the payroll floor, situation inexpensive owners and reshape the wage headdress statement earlier the CBA expires successful December 2026. (Justin Edmonds/Getty Images)

The MLB and MLBPA are successful the aboriginal signifier of corporate bargaining talks, and the archetypal connection for immoderate benignant of wage headdress came this week.

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The league projected a wage headdress of $245.3 cardinal for 2027.

This season, the league's highest Opening Day payroll belonged to the Los Angeles Dodgers astatine $415.2 million, portion the lowest belonged to the Miami Marlins astatine $81.8 million.