In a conference call with media, interim MLBPA executive director Bruce Meyer outlined why the players in Major League Baseball are adamantly opposed to a salary cap system. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)
In a conference call with the media today, MLB Players’ Association interim executive director Bruce Meyer outlined why the union is adamantly opposed to a salary cap system.
"Our union has never been broken, and never will be."
That may have summed up Meyer’s and the players’ position on a recent salary cap proposal as part of labor negotiations ahead of the expiration of the current CBA on December 1st.
Meyer said that the players have fought a cap system for decades based the belief “that it's bad for players at all levels, and not just monetarily,” but bad for the freedom of the players, bad for the fans, and “bad for players at every level – particularly bad for the middle class, who sometimes you hear that somehow that kind of system is going to benefit them.”
