Grow: Assessing what we know about the new CBA
From SABR member Nathaniel Grow at FanGraphs on December 1, 2016:
After nearly a year’s worth of negotiation sessions, and with little more than three hours remaining before the deadline, Major League Baseball’s owners and players came to terms on a new collective bargaining agreement Wednesday evening. Not only does this agreement avert a possible work stoppage, but it also means that teams will head into next week’s Winter Meetings with a better sense of the economic ground rules under which they’ll be operating in the coming seasons.
It will be at least a few weeks, if not a couple months, before the final written version of the new CBA is released publicly. Indeed, while the owners and players reached a consensus on the core components of the deal last night, many of those verbal agreements must still be reduced to writing, a process that will take some time.
Still, many of the core components of the deal have already been reported in the press. Here’s what we know so far about the new CBA.
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Originally published: December 1, 2016. Last Updated: December 1, 2016.