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Resetting the luxury tax penalties this year ultimately doesn’t matter

From a purely baseball fan perspective, the months of May and June were pretty brutal to watch in a few different lenses, which wasn’t ideal because the world around us was also not super fun! In our little corner of the universe, we were constantly inundated by very public, very tense and very unfruitful negotiations between the players and the owners to try and get a 2020 season off the ground. As it was happening, the question of whether it should even be happening amid an ongoing pandemic was also in the air, with honestly fair arguments from both sides.