Cubs’ Anthony Rizzo: ‘Luxury tax wasn’t meant to be a wage

MESA, Ariz. – The query to Kyle Schwarber about how cash modifications folks wasn’t even completed when a primary baseman with rabbit ears piped in from 4 lockers away Wednesday morning. “Money talks,” Anthony Rizzo mentioned. If that wasn’t a tone-setter for the beginning of Cubs spring coaching, think about it not less than one other voice in a rising refrain of gamers important of the sport’s financial squeeze on salaries — and extra centered on upcoming collective bargaining negotiations than gamers have been in a technology. “I think the luxury tax wasn’t meant to be a salary cap, and teams are treating it like that,” Rizzo advised the Sun-Times. “Are you sacrificing winning a championship