2025-2026 offseason thread

[chop2chip]

If you don't think they discuss the estimated revenue share going to the players in these meetings, I'm not sure what to tell you. That's literally the main topic of labor discussions.

of course but it’s solutioned indirectly.

The players will get more money if they change qualifying offer rules, etc.

The owners will make more money instituting a luxury tax, etc

This is not the same as an explicit guaranteed revenue split which is what the other leagues have.

Which truth be told I don’t care about. The players can make as much money as they want. Same for owners. They can do whatever they want, but I want it to end up where the variance in team spending is eliminated. I promise you I really don’t care about the fight between the millionaires and billionaires.

 

[Carp]

However they have been satisfied with it for the last 100 years. The MLBPA has a good idea of revenues generated, and they know what players are paid. They've always had the same amount of information, and have always been satisfied with their revenue share. That's literally what they discuss for every new CBA.

Folks act like this is some special time where some teams outspend others. It's not.

The divide between the haves and have nots has grown wider than it ever has in my memory. Even the mid 2000 Yankees didn't have this great of a divide.

The Dodgers combined payroll between luxury tax and actual payroll is 546 million. That is more than double the actual payroll of all but 4 teams. Their 146m in luxury tax payments is more than the entire payrolls of 11 teams, and essentially the same as the Reds. There is a larger gap between the Dodgers and the Blue Jays (#5 currently) than there is the Blue Jays and the Miami (the cheapest team in the league).

 

[Metaphysicist]

What do you guys expect AA to say at this point? “Please, I am desperate to add a starter and will pay any price!.” Even if he is still working on something, his negotiating position has to be “we are fine going into the season with the guys we have.”

Frankly, my default expectation was Holmes and Lopez in the rotation because they were successful in that role prior to their injury and now they are supposed to be healthy—they were going to get that shot unless we got somebody obviously better (not just more reliable).