It seems our last podcast was fairly timely given how well we hit on who would get the qualifying offer and also the general inevitability of a lockout. Berselius shared this on the last post, and there’s also a tweet screenshot highlighting the main point from Passan’s piece below:
The gist I get is that MLB and ownership are doing the near-unilateral thing where they introduce a new rule and then just implement it the next season whether the players like it or not. In this case, they’re hoping to shoehorn in all the other stuff already proposed, perhaps including the last bit where they suggested shortening the schedule again.