Strike News
Lots of good stuff in this
update…
The latest proposal from the
owners call for a max contract length of five years for free agent players
switching teams, six years to retain their own players and no deferred
contracts. Qualifying offers are gone and five years to free agency for players
30 or older.
Free agents would be limited
to five-year, $202 million contracts. (That is 15% of the proposed cap number
and would rise.)
Juan Soto's deal with the New York
Mets was for 3x the years and 3.8x the dollars.
MLB proposes that the
minimum salary rises to $1 million,
Union chief Bruce Meyer ain’t
a happy puppy. He believes there will be an MLB lockout Dec.1. Says players
will receive $500M pay cut if salary cap was in place. Calls the MLB’s
international draft proposal, ‘Horrendous.’ Anticipates the union will have one
more meeting with MLB before the All Star Game, which is similar schedule to
the last CBA in 2021. Insists the players will not crack and not accept a
salary cap under any condition.
Full details:
An increase in minimum
salary — up to $1MM from the current $780K but only for pre-arb players who
earn a full year of service or who have already reached two full years of
service. (Twenty-two percent of players who have two-plus years of service are
already arbitration-eligible as Super Two players.) The actual base salary for
pre-arbitration players who don’t accrue a full year of service would be $900K.
Free agency after five years
(rather than six) for players who are 30 or older when they reach that point as
well as elimination of the qualifying offer system. In exchange for this, the
league seeks to have free agent contracts capped at five years for players who
change teams. A player re-signing with his prior team could sign for a maximum
of six years. The size of those contracts would vary based on revenue under the
cap/floor model. Based on last year’s numbers, the “max deal” for a player
re-signing with his own team would be six years, $265MM.
Elimination of deferred
money in contracts.
Creation of a “Cornerstone
Player” provision that draws from the NBA’s Bird Rights provision.
5 comments:
Owners make sensible proposals here.
Once again Billionaires fighting Millionaires I can't wait
The cap on years in FA contracts is interesting. Unlimited AAV gives wealthier teams an advantage, but the ability to stretch out years, knowing that they’ll likely be over-paying for a declining asset later may be an even bigger advantage. I don’t see this 5/6 yr limit as realistic, but not impossible that it could be included in the final package as 6/8.
Either way, I think this will be a long lockout, and while I’m not sure the owners will get their hard cap, I think that it’s the players who will ultimately cave as the 80% who will never get gargantuan numbers prevail over the superstars dreaming of billion dollar deals.
So, no baseball in 2027. Good, I will need a year to detox from this terrible season
Adam, if it is a long lockout, top prospects need to get their acts together and get on the Mets roster for a meaningful length of time THIS YEAR. Foot firmly in door.
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