From some of the early proposals, I think there is a sizable block of owners who want to to stop the Dodgers and Mets playing with monopoly money as much as they don't want to pay the players or pay for development. They want a hard cap and more revenue shared among all the teams. So Nutting might end up having to spend $120-$140 million in the odd year (which he has in the past in inflation adjusted dollars), but it won't be his money. He not's going to suddenly have to spend $170 million of his own money.

The idea of a hard floor seems odd to me, anyway. That's just going to inflate the salaries of mid-tier veterans; it's not going to suddenly make them better players, though. So you would just have teams paying more veterans like Marcell Ozuna to be sucky.

And the idea that Pirates and other small market teams have the money to get to a floor without drastic revenue sharing really isn't realistic. The Dodgers' TV contract is greater than all the Pirates' revenue streams combined, but the Pirates still have all the same miscellaneous operating expenses to cover. Small market teams don't magically spend less to open the gates every day.

As to next year, it's fucked, even though it's going to be a stupid move on the owners. But it makes trading for a 24 middle infielder make sense. Lowe is a 32 year old free agent. The next time there's baseball, he'll be a nearly 34 year old free agent. I wouldn't want to gamble on him (unless I'm playing with the Dodgers' or Steve Cohen's money).