Why MLB Needs a Salary Cap, Why Star Players Hate the Idea

And while everyone out there are certainly fans of small market teams, and I'm sitting here in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, a small market city, a small market team resides here.

Getting excited that it seems like we're destined for this cap system.

And again, maybe we are, but we aren't going to get there without a really, really, really serious fight from the MLBPA, from star players who are not going to shut up about their position disdain for a cap and even what just happened in the other league that has very strict rules on contracts and salaries and has a salary cap and something called aprons and second aprons and rules and the league really gets behind not wanting

all the stars on

one team we just saw a star player And Victor Weminyama with his value sky high, an international star, young defensive player of the year who just led his team to the NBA finals at 20 freaking two and didn't win and wasn't great in that series, but got there incredibly young.

And just on his own, outside of even his play, is probably worth a billion dollars for the league in terms of what he brings, the eyeballs he brings, the intention he brings globally.

And as great as he is, likely one of the future faces of the league if he is not that already.

We just saw that guy take upwards of 50 plus million dollars less than for a new contract so his team can get back to another finals can maybe win that championship can stay a contender for years to come because there are other star players on his team not as good as him but other star players on his team and you got to have a team to win not just led by one guy that are going to need new deals coming up too Now, those players may feel pressured.

Maybe they will.

Maybe they won't take less money coming up because they're not worth a billion dollars just based on what they are as a global sensation.

That's Victor.

That's Wemby.

That's not them.

But we just saw a player that in a free market of pure on capitalism with no cap, nothing would be getting an Otani deal, if not even more and put together in a more favorable way.

And yet he took a lot less because of the rules, because of a cap, because of an apron, because of restrictions do not allow anybody to get a billion dollars to play basketball because you got to work within the parameters of their cap system.

He took less than even the max of the current system.

to keep his team together and to win.

And a lot of NBA media and NBA people are now speaking out on how this is unfair to the player and why is he doing this when the owners are certainly not going to be taking any less.

He's going to be reeking in all the benefits and taking all the money.

And then Victor, at the end of the day, will be the cash cow that won't get the most money he should in terms of if this was a free market.

It is not in the NBA.

Really, it is in Major League Baseball.

How much longer will that be the case, though, is a major question now.

And what was said here going into the All-Star game, going into maybe the last All-Star game before we lose a season, before a lot changes in the future of the league and kind of this being that last season that people have been waiting for for a while, thinking this would be the season and this would be the debate and conversation that would turn the tide and would get us that salary cap.

Well, you had some comments that make you feel like we are not any closer at all.