Bruce Meyer Breaks Down MLBPA Position on Salary Cap

Bruce Meyer at SLA annual conference in Chicago.

Bruce Meyer, the MLBPA's interim executive director, appeared on a panel last week at the 2026 Sports Lawyers Association's annual conference in Chicago. As negotiations toward a new Collective Bargaining Agreement get under way, Meyer outlined the Players' long-held opposition to a salary cap in baseball. 

"It's a cap on player salaries,'' Meyer said. "Not a cap on the commissioner's salary. Not a cap on the commissioner's private jet. Not a cap on the owners' profits. Not a cap on their franchise values. It holds down their labor costs. They want it because salary caps make their franchise values go up. Franchise values go up because the cap holds down their labor costs because it artificially suppresses salaries.''