MLBPA submitted an initial collective bargaining agreement proposal, with owners expected to respond the next day. The union proposal includes increased player benefits and ideas aimed at improving competitive balance. It proposes making recipients of revenue sharing more incentivized to spend money and win games by socializing stable television revenue through revenue sharing, while privatizing more performance-responsive stadium revenue. It also includes withholding revenue sharing from teams that do not spend it toward winning. Owners rejected the proposal, arguing it does not achieve competitive balance and instead emphasizes raising spending floors and strengthening incentives to win. Dramatically raising the luxury tax ceiling is a difficult sell, and changing service time rules to make players over 30 free agents after five years is a clear nonstarter. Separately, a Braves prospect list refresh highlighted Eric Hartman’s rise.
"MLBPA submitted their initial CBA proposal Wednesday, as the owners are expected to make their initial proposal Thursday. The union proposal includes some interesting ideas, some increased benefits to players, and at least one clear nonstarter for the owners. The owners positioned themselves as advocating for fan desire for competitive balance and rejected the proposal, criticizing its ideas towards achieving competitive, which focused on raising spending floors and creating stronger incentive structures to win games, rather than limiting the top spending clubs."
"I think the union's ideas about making recipients of revenue sharing more incentivized to spend money and win games by socializing the more stable TV money through revenue, while privatizing more performance-responsive stadium revenue is a strong idea. I am also sympathetic to the concept of withholding revenue sharing from teams that don't spend it towards winning games. Dramatically raising the luxury tax ceiling is going to be a tough sell for owners and fans, however, and the proposed changes to service time rules, making players over 30 free agents after 5 years of service time instead of 6 is a clear nonstarter for owners."
"The owners positioned themselves as advocating for fan desire for competitive balance and rejected the proposal, criticizing its ideas towards achieving competitive, which focused on raising spending floors and creating stronger incentive structures to win games, rather than limiting the top spending clubs. I think the union's ideas about making recipients of revenue sharing more incentivized to spend money and win games by socializing the more stable TV money through revenue, while privatizing more performance-responsive stadium revenue is a strong idea."
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