Yankees’ Jazz Chisholm gets brutal contract update due to expected MLB lockout

The potential lockout in Major League Baseball will definitely impact some players. 

There still don't seem to be any real thoughts on what could happen, other than teams potentially not being able to spend as much money as they have in the past. The expectation is that players on current contracts and current rosters will be allowed to stay on their current teams and go from there.

A lot of players will be impacted by whatever happens in the offseason, though, from a pure baseball standpoint, I hope there isn't any salary cap. If anything, I believe there should be a salary floor, and we go from there. 

Regardless, it doesn't seem very likely, which will lead to many problems for somebody like Jazz Chisholm Jr. of the New York Yankees. Chisholm is a free agent in the offseason, and according to ESPN, while there's a possibility that he could get nine figures, this expected lockout might have a major impact on that.

“The assumption is that a lockout will happen again. That naturally leads to two questions: Which teams are eager enough to spend to sign big-ticket players before Dec. 1? And which players are important enough to get the offers they'd want to sign before the CBA expires? 

“Before his injury, Skubal was the top free agent, but now his market might be muddier, which could lead to his camp opting to wait a bit. There might not be another slam dunk nine-figure player, with Freddy Peralta and Jazz Chisholm Jr. having the strongest cases at the moment among the other pending free agents,” Kiley McDaniel of ESPN wrote.

I'd be a bit surprised to see Chisholm get more than $100 million at this stage of his career because of how much he's struggled in 2026. 

There's definitely a possibility that a team pays him well, but if major changes are made around Major League Baseball, he's definitely the typical guy who would get impacted by all these problems, as teams will be reluctant to pay $100 million to a guy who is good, but probably not elite.

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