Good morning, Birdland!
The lockout is not over yet, but it does feel like it’s getting close. The Players Association and the team owners met for most of the day on Tuesday, only concluding talks at 2:30 a.m. when the PA requested to speak to its board prior to coming back with an answer on the latest proposal.
This proposal has finally reached the realm of reasonable from the players perspective. The Athletic’s Evan Drellich outlined most of the details in a tweet thread last night. The basics are that the owners are proposing a CBT threshold of $230 million in 2022 with it increasing each year up to $242 million in 2026, a pre-arbitration pool of $40 million, and minimum salary of $700,000 this season up to $770,000 at the expiration of the CBA.