re: MLB owners propose salary cap

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MLB will not be played. If owners push for the salary cap, then the players will refuse. Now, the player union is kinda dumb, so if the owners offered them better health coverage with an opportunity to reach FA faster, they would probably agree to it. Really focusing on the here and now instead of the future.

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Depends if you're on one of the teams under the floor. I know there are trades and free agency every year, but there are 30 teams and 15 were under. Seems like a good time to be in a contract negotiation if your team has to come up to the floor.

Now I get it from the other side too, if I'm on the Dodgers, Yankees, Mets etc and they're going to start releasing players and signing cheaper contracts, you wouldn't like to be in that situation, but it would benefit far more players.

Someone else said in here, raise the league minimums, more benefits, and it would work for everyone.

Unless players can hit FA earlier, you will have more and more Anthony Rendon-type contracts, where players who are closer to 30 get big deals, so teams can reach the floor. Could see owners then asking for fewer guarantees from the contracts to give them an out.

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