Last week, we talked about how at some point, President Trump was likely to weigh in on the eventual Collective Bargaining Agreement fight between MLB’s owners and players.
“Eventually” turned out to take less than a week:
President Trump said Friday that Major League Baseball should have added a salary cap "a long time ago.""Don't they sort of have one?"The president has picked a side in baseball's labor talks: the owners'. t.co/yBi9Qjt3Lv
— Evan Drellich (@EvanDrellich) June 5, 2026“If you don’t have a salary cap you don’t have a sport, because they can’t help themselves,” Trump told reporters Friday aboard Air Force One, per audio published online by the White House. “They should have done it a long time ago.”
The president added it was “shocking, frankly, that they didn’t put a cap on many years ago.”
Obviously baseball’s owners have had an interest in a salary cap for a long, long time, but the players have fought so vociferously against it (including the 1994 strike and lost postseason) that it hasn’t been a realistic option for the last few CBAs. This time around, it’s clear that the owners are ready to fight for a cap/floor system, as they’ve proposed (and the players have already declined), and it seems they’ll have the President in their corner if it gets ugly this winter.
How much that would matter remains to be seen. President Trump’s voice is a loud one among his followers, but the actual authority to force private companies or private citizens to accept his preferred outcome in a CBA negotiation is difficult to articulate, if it exists at all. Although Major League Baseball does enjoy a judicially-created antitrust exemption and the President could, for example, push Congress to take it away, (1) Congress doesn’t have to act, and (2) taking away the exemption would be more of a threat to the owners not the players.
In other words, that the President is expressing support for MLB’s billionaire owners is not necessarily surprising, but it also might not have much of an impact (compared to if he’d come out in support of the players, for example). We’ll see where things stand when the rubber actually meets the road – the current CBA expires December 1 – and then when/if Spring Training games start getting cut. That’s when it’d be really difficult to predict what this President could or would do to push things along, regardless of which side for whom he’s expressed support so far. He has long been a known sports fan, and also hasn’t been shy about nudging Major League Baseball before.
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