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Major League Baseball proposes delaying salary cap start until 2028 in talks with players

Published by NBC Sports on November 3, 2026 at 3:43 PM ET

MLB hadn’t proposed a salary cap since the negotiations that led to a 7 1/2-month strike in 1994 that forced cancellation of the World Series for the first time in 90 years.

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