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A low CBT really would have hurt the Sox ability to add so no, I don’t think we would forget about that if they were basically hard capped and couldn’t fill out the roster.

I tend to agree. The owners appear to have made real concessions. I don't have much faith that they won't regress backwards if this offer doesn't get it done.

I read somewhere before the lockout that it wasn't going to be in the new CBA, but I haven't seen anything concrete since.

Seriously. The anti-owner pessimist in me still expects the other shoe to drop any minute now.

As much as I want a floor and know it’s not happening, I really think this makes those cheap owners happy, or happy enough.

I’ve been reading over everything looking for the catch and so far I’m impressed by the details. I’m trepidatiously thinking this might get it done ????.

Depending on the tax penalties it should make the cheap anti-spending owners happy, hopefully.

I’m surprised it’s that cheap honestly. It’s not terrible, but another annoying cost if you wouldn’t otherwise consume the platform’s content.

Well damn, that’s big if true.

That seems really fair and only hurts the mega spenders. Or am I reading that wrong?

Honestly, I’ll be upset if the players see that as a sticking point. I despise how the owners have played this the whole time but this looks like a legit offer with real concessions from where they were a week ago. I hope the players recognise that and don’t risk this falling apart - assuming that there isn’t some boogeyman in the fine print.

City/metro size/media market size? Sox usually get boned by these definitions.

A few anti tanking measures and a few incentives to promote prospects over manipulating service time. All seem sensible.

Hard to disagree there. A new tier really only effects the ultra spenders. Everything else looks pretty fair from where both sides started.

I’m not seeing a lot of deal breakers here.

A new surcharge level can’t be a deal breaker, right? Please?

This looks like the first legit not a non-starter offer to this point.

Ok, so a flat pre-Arb pool and it counting against CBT are the strings?

Yeah, waiting for the “considerable strings” to be revealed and crush our hopes yet again…

I’d love to see it but I doubt the owners would lift the lockout w/o dry ink on a new CBA.

If MLB is proposing $230M and the other numbers are close to what we’ve seen reported, they have to be close enough to make tweaks and find a deal. Unless owners are trying to slip bullshit in last minute again.