While the NBA lockout rolls into day 136, Major League Baseball’s players and owners are moving closer and closer to reaching a new labor deal.
According to Ken Rosenthal of FOXSports.com, the two sides have a “near-agreement” on draft-related issues, thought to be the last remaining significant hurdle in the ongoing negotiations.
There will not be hard-slotting, but the new deal is expected to carry restraints on the amount of total money a team can spend on draft picks from year to year. There will also be “significant changes” in draft-pick compensation for free agents, according to Rosenthal, meaning the Type A and Type B classifications might be restructured or completely dismissed.
An agreement must be reached by December 11. The way talks are going, it could be done this week.
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- fellspointbird - Nov 13, 2011 at 12:10 PM
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The bad thing is that this will not limit how much 1st round picks ask for, but how many total picks a team can sign.
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- JBerardi - Nov 13, 2011 at 12:49 PM
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“There will not be hard-slotting, but the new deal is expected to carry restraints on the amount of total money a team can spend on draft picks from year to year.”
Sigh. At least we avoided a complete apocalypse (hard slotting).
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- clydeserra - Nov 13, 2011 at 1:48 PM
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Why should a person not be able to ask for and get the money the money the market says he deserves?
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- The Common Man - Nov 13, 2011 at 1:20 PM
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Millionaires and billionaires conspiring to screw over young amateurs who have yet to make a dime, and who maybe never will. Hooray for capitalism.
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- clydeserra - Nov 13, 2011 at 1:51 PM
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that’s why there should be salary caps, think of the poor Wilpons. they have suffered so much, if only they didn’t have to pay Jason Bay so much.
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- The Common Man - Nov 13, 2011 at 2:09 PM
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I do enjoy the occasional public outcry that owners need to be protected from their own idiocy with a salary cap.
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- cowboysoldiertx - Nov 13, 2011 at 1:51 PM
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I am just thankful we didn’t go the basketball or football route. That would have been ugly.
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- Detroit Michael - Nov 14, 2011 at 9:22 AM
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What’s the significance of the December 11 deadline (or quasi-deadline)?
