Dave Roberts may not believe that the Los Angeles Dodgers’ record spending is ruining baseball. But the Dodgers’ manager is open to changes as Major League Baseball braces for a potential lockout after the 2026 season.

Roberts, who appeared on Amazon Prime’s “Good Sports” on Tuesday night, alongside hosts Kevin Hart and Kenan Thompson, said on the show he would be in favor of MLB adopting a salary cap — a key goal the owners have as they are set to negotiate a new collective bargaining agreement with the MLB Players Association — with the caveat that it comes with a floor for spending.

“You know what? I’m all right with that,” Roberts said. “I think the NBA has done a nice job of revenue sharing with the players and the owners. But if you’re going to kind of suppress spending at the top, I think that you got to raise the floor to make those bottom-feeders spend money, too.”

Roberts, a three-time World Series champion manager, oversaw a roster this past season that was the most expensive in baseball history at a $415 million competitive balance tax figure, according to Cot’s Contracts. The offseason before that, the Dodgers committed more than $1.4 billion in salaries, including a $700 million commitment to Shohei Ohtani and a $325 million commitment to Yoshinobu Yamamoto, both of which were records (Ohtani the biggest guarantee at the time to a player, Yamamoto the most ever to a pitcher).

The Dodgers’ luxury tax bill of $103 million after 2024 represented a record, one they will surely smash for their 2025 payroll.

The Dodgers’ willingness to keep spending has turned the club into an avatar for the labor issues sure to come next winter, so much so that Roberts poked fun at the idea after his team won the pennant this past season, saying they would “really ruin baseball” and win the first back-to-back titles the league has seen since the 1998-2000 Yankees.

Capping the Dodgers’ spending on the roster, however, wouldn’t limit the other ways they have outspent much of their competition, including on infrastructure and other franchise elements.