MLB’s proposal to reduce minor league reserve lists is a really bad idea

Frank Schwindel was fun to watch with the Cubs in 2021, and hopefully will be in 2022. But would he even get a chance under MLB’s proposed reduction of minor league reserve lists?Over the last couple of days, you have probably read about a MLB proposal to the MLBPA which would limit the number of times a player could be optioned to the minor leagues. On its face this sounds good — players would potentially make more money if they couldn’t be jerked up and down on the so-called “Iowa Shuttle” more than five times a year, the number in the proposal.

But as Jeff Passan of ESPN wrote, that wasn’t all that was in MLB’s proposal, and it was tied to another one, as BCB’s Sara Sanchez noted here…