Twitter is buzzing with lots of opinions about what baseball needs to thrive and a lot of tweeters are spouting gloom and doom about a work stoppage in 2027.
And I can see why people are concerned, given what it will take, just from an approval perspective:
1. The owners have to UNANIMOUSLY approve the new CBA that will be proposed?
2. That a majority of players have to approve it and that vote can be influenced by the thirty union reps (one for each team) and the executive committee of the MLBPA.
And that is after the negotiations between the MLBPA (led by their new Executive Director), and the Labor Relations Department within the office of the Commissioner of Baseball.
Just from a numbers and personalities perspective it seems impossible to believe that this could get done.
Still, let's assume reasonable heads will prevail and both sides WILL want to hammer out an agreement to save the 2027 season.
How would an agreement come about that the owners and the players would be able to approve?
From some good, old-fashioned horse trading, that's how. The trick is to know what compromises will have to be made on each side and how those compromises fit together.
The thing that rankles me is that the Labor Relations Departament and the MLBPA do not appear to be seriously negotiating yet. Now when I began college my preferred study method was all-night cramming before an exam. But as I got a little older I saw that if I just studied more along the way it made preparation for tests a lot easier.
So I think the the MLBPA and the MLB owners need to do less crammng and more work along the way, starting today.
Part 2 will lay out, using my 7 part series on how to fix baseball, what points will be horse traded. That is, what points I think the players union and management will be willing to compromise on, including sub-groups within each group.
So, look for part 2 soon. I am working on it now.
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