MESA, Ariz. – The question to Kyle Schwarber about how money changes people wasn’t even finished when a first baseman with rabbit ears piped in from four lockers away Wednesday morning.
“Money talks,” Anthony Rizzo said.
If that wasn’t a tone-setter for the start of Cubs spring training, consider it at least another voice in a growing chorus of players critical of the game’s economic squeeze on salaries — and more focused on upcoming collective bargaining negotiations than players have been in a generation.
“I think the luxury tax wasn’t meant to be a salary cap, and teams are treating it like that,” Rizzo told the Sun-Times.