Dave Roberts, the man who has managed the big-spending Dodgers, says he’s open to a salary cap in Major League Baseball — but he’d also like to see a salary floor if it ever came to it.
Roberts appeared on Sports on Prime’s “Good Sports With Kevin Hart and Kenan Thompson” when he was asked about the idea.
“You know what? I’m all right with that,” Roberts said after Thompson asked about it during the Tuesday night appearance. “I think the NBA has done a nice job of revenue sharing with the players and the owners. But if you’re 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.”
A salary cap is something MLB owners are likely hoping to see when they negotiate a new collective bargaining agreement with the MLB Players Association, and it could be a big sticking point in talks.
MLBPA leadership has indicated it’s a topic they won’t even entertain.
The Dodgers, back-to-back World Series champions, have been the prime argument for those in favor of a cap, with Los Angeles’ payroll somewhere in the neighborhood of $400 million, including their luxury tax bill.
And in the offseason before the 2024 season, the Dodgers signed Shohei Ohtani and Yoshinobu Yamamoto to massive contracts.
The exorbitant spending has also made the Dodgers the modern-day “Evil Empire,” with Roberts even leaning into the criticism about the team’s spending by declaring that the Dodgers would “really ruin baseball” by winning their second consecutive World Series title after defeating the Brewers to take the NL pennant.
MLB is the only North American sports league that does not have a salary cap, though with the current CBA set to expire on Dec. 1, 2026, a change could be coming.
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