Dodgers supervisor was a guest Wednesday night on ‘Good Sports with Kevin Hart and Kenan Thompson’ on Amazon Prime, and was requested if Major League Baseball ought to have a wage cap.
“I’m alright with that,” Roberts stated. “I think the NBA’s done a nice job of kind 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’ve got to raise the floor to make those bottom feeders spend money, too.”
The collective bargaining settlement between MLB gamers and house owners expires at 11:59 p.m. ET on December 1, 2026. The history of ownership wanting to limit player salaries is long and voluminous, courting again to the nineteenth century.
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Speaking of MLB labor historical past, Dayn Perry at CBS Sports did a deep dive into commissioner Rob Manfred’s decade-plus at the helm of the sport. “Since taking over from Bud Selig, Manfred has in some ways been a transformative leader, but at the same time he’s reinforced some of the worst traits of his office,” Perry wrote.
Katie Woo lined the St. Louis Cardinals for the final 5 seasons at The Athletic. She’s staying at The Athletic but now joining the Dodgers beat as well, alongside Fabian Ardaya.
Felina on the And They All Went to the Ballpark e-newsletter wrote about the joys of visiting the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum in Kansas City.
To spherical out your morning, right here is (a returning) Miguel Rojas speaking about his baseball glove for a couple of minutes.