“Over Our Dead Bodies”: MLB Agents Set Aside Differences to Tackle Upcoming Salary Cap Decision

Pitchers Chris Sale, Zack Wheeler and Yoshinobu Yamamoto all share one representative, and he just drew a hard line. Agent Joel Wolfe of The Team opposes a proposed $258.2 million cap that would force eight clubs to shed $528 million. His message was blunt. That truce began behind the center-field fence, where league officials corralled agents together and cap-sport reps compared how their NBA clients fared. In an interview with The Athletic’s Ken Rosenthal and Evan Drellich, Wolfe made his stance unmistakable.