MLB Owners Drop a Bombshell with Hard Salary Cap & Floor Counterproposal

It's going to get really ugly.

Seems like a specific percentage of revenue should be palatable to the PA. The main problem with that is clubs not having open books. Who determines what is revenue? What percent of revenue is supposedly going to the players now? If it is 47% now and MLB offers 50%, that sounds fair. Sticking point is determination of revenue and who checks the books. 

A long lockout will really hurt baseball in a major way. Soccer will push baseball aside possibly just as football and basketball passed baseball in the past.

Yeah, this is going to get ugly. I think we can be pretty much certain that we will have a shortened or delayed season in 2027. We have a long ways to go, and I really doubt either side will be willing to make any compromises for a while. I really hope they get something figured out because as an avid baseball fan, a shortened season would be bad for players, owners, and  fans

About time they bring parity to this sport

This could turn into the ways Politicians get paid on the side by outside income with special deals. They are all supposed to make about 200 k per year, yet they are all multi-millionaires. 

41 minutes ago, BrianBrewerFanatic said:

This could turn into the ways Politicians get paid on the side by outside income with special deals. They are all supposed to make about 200 k per year, yet they are all multi-millionaires. 

Is there info baseball players have that isn't public that would allow them to front run markets and insider trade?

I doubt it.

Source of revenue is not relevant. The floor and cap is what's relevant. The overall revenue of MLB is roughly estimated by a number of sources.

Any floor will come with a cap. Seems like a pretty generous offer from the owner side of things. I wonder if it's an overpay intentionally just to get the cap in there?

I'm not sure where this goes, but it ends with a much lower floor/cap/spending if there's another lockout with missed games. Baseball is already bleeding fans. After the last strike, it took years to recover with help from historical accomplishments fueled by PEDs.

This IS going to get ugly, and I have to agree that I was surprised by MLB owners making such a seemingly generous offer.  I say "seemingly" because I have no idea what each team's specific financial situation is, just that there are quite obvious HUGE gaps between what the Dodgers/Yankees spend on salary vs. what Cleveland or the Reds do. 

A few years ago, the Dodgers discovered they were were Godzilla.  I'm not sure why it took so long and I'm not sure they will be willing to give up that hammer in their hand, but something needs to be done to close that gap and compel the Reds, Guardians, Twins and others to step it up from a payroll standpoint.  

But from a Public Relations standpoint, the owners have fired the first shot across the bough of the MLBPA and it seems to have put the MLBPA in a defensive posture.  The response by the MLBPA's interim director was pretty weak.