2026 Offseason and Beyond Trade/Free Agent Ideas

[wiguy94]

2 minutes ago, owbc said:

I’m assuming the floor would be below our current payroll, so a floor would force more spending by our competition without giving us any boost.

Even distribution of local media revenue would be incredibly good for the Brewers (historically last in local revenue) and crippling for the Dodgers (first in local revenue). Sign me up. 

There's absolutely no chance a floor would be below where the Brewers are spending.

[tmwiese55]

FYI on this for the Dodgers. I really only learned of this specific perk recently, I'd always thought they just got the normal treatment that all get with their local TV deals. Theirs is even moreso due to the bankruptcy when sold.    From what I understand, there's nothing MLB can do about it until the deal expires.  IDK how that would apply to whatever they're getting from Japanese deals

https://www.forbes.com/sites/maurybrown/2026/01/26/mlb-didnt-cut-the-dodgers-a-6-billion-revenue-sharing-shelter-bankruptcy-court-did/

[cragi]

What the dodgers are doing right now is wildly out of control and has the potential to cripple baseball if it keeps up. I can't imagine the new CBA won't seriously reign this in

[owbc]

31 minutes ago, wiguy94 said:

There's absolutely no chance a floor would be below where the Brewers are spending.

Apparently the proposal from MLB was a $171 million floor which is higher than I thought it would be. 

I'll believe it when I see it in the approved CBA. 

[nate82]

1 hour ago, owbc said:

I’m assuming the floor would be below our current payroll, so a floor would force more spending by our competition without giving us any boost.

Even distribution of local media revenue would be incredibly good for the Brewers (historically last in local revenue) and crippling for the Dodgers (first in local revenue). Sign me up. 

Last I saw the floor would be something around $170mm which only about 10 teams in MLB are at or above. The cap would be at $245mm.  But the caps also includes player benefits which MLB put at about $20-25mm.  I saw $23mm reported somewhere but I can’t find where I saw that.  So the floor is really around $150mm and the ceiling at about $220mm.

I really like the MLB proposal but I don’t see the players agreeing to an international draft or including the players benefits into the salary cap and floor.