As you probably know, the MLB wants to impose a salary course – as in the other leagues. And the players, they really want to know anything about it.
Result? In 2027, there is a good chance that the season does not last 162 games. We're going to say it like that to stay polite, but the fear of a long work stoppage is real.
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According to Jeff Passan, Bryce Harper said to Rob Manfred, who was visiting the Phillies locker room and who began to talk about the economic situation of the League, to “crowd his cloakroom camp” if he was about to talk about CAP salary. #Ouch
Philadelphia Phillies star Bryce Harper stood nose to nose with MLB commissioner Rob Manfred during a meeting last week and told him to “get the f— out of our clubhouse” if he wanted to talk about a salary cap, sources told ESPN. News free and unlocked: https://t.co/DukJC3i8T5
— Jeff Passan (@JeffPassan) July 28, 2025
He hasn't changed that much.
Manfred, who saw Harper (a client of Scott Boras) say that the players were ready to lose 162 games to achieve their ends if the owners kept their end in the CAP file, replied that he was not going to crowd his camp and that it was important to talk about these issues.
The two men shaken their hands, but the next day, Harper did not take the calls of the commissioner. This is on that I have misery: make a man of you and responds after having japped hard the day before.
Manfred visits the 30 Ligue changing rooms each year. But there, the tensions between the players and the league are more than in the background, as Harper has just highlighted.
Harper has already signed in the long term: it is therefore not for selfish purposes that he wants to prevent a course. It is really for the youngest players who push that he thinks (like many veterans) in this way.
Players think that a salary course would give more value to franchises on the back of the players. The teams say that this would allow you to have a little more parity in major baseball.
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- The rangers do not want to be done.
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