Figured Jimmy or someone might know the answer to my question : During a lockout, are players who are on the injured list still able to get medical attention and rehab or are they also impacted? I started thinking about this when I got the Vasil news. One would think they could but logic doesn't enter into a lot of labor disputes.

Injured players could not rehabilitate at team facilities. Players would be free to sign and play in international leagues during a lockout.

That just seems so stupid.

IIRC, this is what chased Burger into the semi-pro situation.

https://www.yahoo.com/sports/articles/dodgers-just-pushed-mlb-closer-001124687.html

Dodgers warming up to salary cap

Why even the Dodgers stand to benefit from a salary cap

Do I think that Walter is actually too concerned with parity? No, not really. He's not a stupid man; he knows that MLB has about as much parity as every other major American sports league. But he also knows that the institution of a cap is a great way to keep your costs in check, and that, like any business, keeping costs in check is good for the bottom line - and, more specifically, the value of your franchise.

While the effects of a cap on competitive balance are mixed at best, the effects of a cap on an owner's net worth are crystal clear: With annual spending largely fixed, the line basically only ever goes up, which is why owners from the NFL to the NBA to the NHL have seen their investments multiply in value over the years. Walter wants some of that for himself; the arrival of a salary cap in baseball means a rising tide that will lift all boats, and fatter profit margins against the next round of broadcast rights agreements. Whether it's actually good for the game or its fans is an afterthought, at best.

Edited March 30Mar 30 by caulfield12

I've always had a thought about salary caps where the players you sign or draft and develop don't count against it. Only other teams free agents. So the owners get a little something. The players still can get paid if the say with their original team, or they even mess with that a bit and say a specific service time with a team waives it.

A salary cap would not have helped the Sox at all under JR's reign of terror.

It's going to be a long, cold winter next off season.

Simply can't see under any circumstances the MLBPA agreeing to a salary cap.

2 hours ago, Dick Allen said:

A salary cap would not have helped the Sox at all under JR's reign of terror.

WHY IS IT SO HIGH?!?!?

2 hours ago, southsider2k5 said:

WHY IS IT SO HIGH?!?!?

You can look at how he runs he Bulls and figure out what he would do with the Sox, with one exception. The Bulls, even when horrible, draw like the Cubs, and he refuses to reward them by ever getting in luxury tax territory. One reason the Sox never had sustained success is because JR refused to pay the price.

1 minute ago, Dick Allen said:

You can look at how he runs he Bulls and figure out what he would do with the Sox, with one exception. The Bulls, even when horrible, draw like the Cubs, and he refuses to reward them by ever getting in luxury tax territory. One reason the Sox never had sustained success is because JR refused to pay the price.

And the Bulls are profitable AF.

5 minutes ago, southsider2k5 said:

And the Bulls are profitable AF.

The Bulls are an out and out goldmine. I find it amazing that Bulls fans pay big money year after year and they have bad teams. I realize in a metro area of 9 million it should not be hard selling out if somebody wants to see NBA basketball but still I think its insane to pay that type of money for a bad product.

On 3/30/2026 at 5:26 AM, Dick Allen said:

I've always had a thought about salary caps where the players you sign or draft and develop don't count against it. Only other teams free agents. So the owners get a little something. The players still can get paid if the say with their original team, or they even mess with that a bit and say a specific service time with a team waives it.

This is an inspired idea. Love it.

As such, the likelihood Manspread will ever even consider it is near 0%.

On 3/31/2026 at 4:26 PM, DoUEvenShift said:

Talk about a potential waste. Just drop me off a cool mil and I’ll do a major Internet media blitz for you.

Or maybe I should just position myself as a sports attorney and get paid. 😆

8 hours ago, ron883 said:

But everyone can just do what the Dodgers do!

Whatever happens with the CBA, I just hope the Sox get more beefed up in their scouting departments:

https://www.mlb.com/news/top-2027-mlb-free-agents

Yuck Yuck Yuck

On 3/30/2026 at 7:49 AM, Lip Man 1 said:

It's going to be a long, cold winter next off season.

Simply can't see under any circumstances the MLBPA agreeing to a salary cap.

I think it's a smokescreen. If one is not a baseball fan they could care less. I think it is different with the NFL. I think gambling is more popular than the game. Rare to see those gambling commercials that feature baseball.

5 hours ago, hi8is said:

Whatever happens with the CBA, I just hope the Sox get more beefed up in their scouting departments:

Yeah I don't think this list tells us anything, not sure what the purpose of this exercise was from Jake Mintz.

The Braves has 0 pro scouts? The Brewers only have 2? I find that very hard to believe, and if the list isn't an accurate count, then what's the point?

On 3/30/2026 at 12:58 PM, WBWSF said:

The Bulls are an out and out goldmine. I find it amazing that Bulls fans pay big money year after year and they have bad teams. I realize in a metro area of 9 million it should not be hard selling out if somebody wants to see NBA basketball but still I think its insane to pay that type of money for a bad product.

You are a White Sox season ticket holder, are you not?

24 minutes ago, Tony said:

Yeah I don't think this list tells us anything, not sure what the purpose of this exercise was from Jake Mintz.

The Braves has 0 pro scouts? The Brewers only have 2? I find that very hard to believe, and if the list isn't an accurate count, then what's the point?

If I am picking up the theme, the places listed as "without" have largely automated with data versus human interactions. In this case it is algo vs scout, which has been a fight for a while now. I know it is being presented one way, but I read it completely as which teams have pushed all in on proprietary data versus human interaction.