MLB Owners Seek Salary Cap to Cash Out on Franchises
MLB owners opened the next CBA talks with a salary-cap demand, a move the author says is really about increasing franchise values for a future sale and letting owners cash out; they frame it as cost certainty, but the piece argues the tactic shifts costs to players and won’t replicate the valuation boom seen in the NFL/NBA, citing The Athletic's Evan Drellich, and suggests the owners are likely to lose this fight.