chpettit19

It's a much better starting point than I expected. Gives me some hope that this won't turn into a completely lost season and there may actually be room for a middle ground that gets the top and bottom closer together and we can stop complaining about payroll and focus on complaining about front office ineptitude. Streamlining complaints would be such a delight!

Some pretty important details missing. Like that floor isn't the actual salary floor. It includes benefits. The actual payroll floor proposed is more like 150. And you mention adding 617 million to player salaries to get teams to the floor, but you don't mention what salary comes off the top to get teams to the cap. The proposal absolutely does not just add 617 million in player salaries. The MLBPA would've signed that the second it was offered if the owners were offering to add over half a billion to player salaries. These were the first offers. They're the starting points. And it actually gives me some hope that we won't miss a season, or even significant part of a season. There's still a long way to go as the MLBPA and owners fight it out, but the initial offers were more reasonable than I expected. Lots of details and compromises to go still, but I actually feel much more optimistic about things after seeing where the 2 sides started.

I would be beyond shocked if Noah Miller is selected. Great glove, but he'd be the worst hitter in the majors by a significant margin. What team is looking to roster a guy you would never want in the batter's box at any point in time? He had a 51 wRC+ in AAA this year. In 242 PAs so it wasn't just a week or something. His hit tool doesn't need to just "catch up," he needs to become a completely different player.