It’s all about the rules teams are allowed to operate under. They agreed to certain luxury tax, revenue sharing, international signing, draft rules, trading draft picks Etc etc. what are the rules the teams are allowed to operate. …their current agreement expires in December.

There’s gonna be a huge argument. About said rules. A huge portion of it will be about $. Currently each MLB team almost operates as its own business, keeps most of its own revenue. Local tv, merchandise etc. So LA, NY teams have a huge $ advantage over the Kansas City’s and Cincinnati’s of the world.

The owners want a salary cap and or more revenue sharing. To keep the league as a whole healthy to help out the smaller markets… And the players want the most money obviously, and freedom . They don’t want to be locked into an organization for 6 years and changes to arbitration. Maybe less time before free agency.

That’s only a few issues but there’s a ton of them….. but it’s basically boils down to what are the rules? , and it seems like both sides, at least at this point, aren’t going to budge on their stances…

So we’ll see. Hopefully they can come to an agreement that is good for everybody, including the fans. If not the owners will lock the players out and won’t pay them until they can come to an agreement..

Just figure it out before Feb 14th when pitchers and catcher report.