New CBA Reached

[revo]

Just hours before the midnight deadline....no lockouts or strikes for another five years.

[madducks]

I wonder if there is any new contract language about arbitration, super two, etc that would affect rookie callups?

[mjl]

Home field for the World Series now goes to the team with the better regular season record, not the league that won the All-Star Game. Minimum DL stay reduced from 15 to 10 days.

[TranaGreg]

Home field for the World Series now goes to the team with the better regular season record, not the league that won the All-Star Game. Minimum DL stay reduced from 15 to 10 days.

10-day DL. cool.

[revo]

Qualifying Offers -- players can only get a QO once in their career. Teams over the luxury tax threshold will lose a 2nd & 5th rounder & $1m in int'l bonus budgets. Teams under the luxury tax threshold will lose a 3rd rd pick. Teams that lose a QO player will gain a pick only if the payer signs a contract greater than $50m, and the pick is determined by market sizes of the teams.

International Draft - didn't happen, but budgets for signing int'l players are capped at around $6m a year.

Luxury Tax Threshold - going up from $189m to $195m-$210m over the next five seasons.

26th roster Spot - not happening.

Schedule - Opening Day moved to mid-week to allow for more off days during the season.

Rev Sharing - some changes, most notably to the A's being phased out as recipients, due largely to the way they've used the money. Ouch.

Smokeless Tobacco - now a banned substance.

[Controller Jacobs]

Wow. PA, Commish Office and other owners must all despise A's ownership. They were a playoff team in 2012, 2013, 2014

[TranaGreg]

love this tweet ...

While my efforts to eliminate pitchers from having to throw to 1B didnt pass, I'm proud of the PA & Owners for coming together on a new CBA!
- Jon Lester (@JLester34)

[BuckyBuckner]

Qualifying Offers -- players can only get a QO once in their career. Teams over the luxury tax threshold will lose a 2nd & 5th rounder & $1m in int'l bonus budgets. Teams under the luxury tax threshold will lose a 3rd rd pick. Teams that lose a QO player will gain a pick only if the payer signs a contract greater than $50m, and the pick is determined by market sizes of the teams.

International Draft - didn't happen, but budgets for signing int'l players are capped at around $6m a year.

Luxury Tax Threshold - going up from $189m to $195m-$210m over the next five seasons.

26th roster Spot - not happening.

Schedule - Opening Day moved to mid-week to allow for more off days during the season.

Rev Sharing - some changes, most notably to the A's being phased out as recipients, due largely to the way they've used the money. Ouch.

Smokeless Tobacco - now a banned substance.

Is there a salary cap floor? If so, what is it?

The only thing I wish they did was lower the September roster expansion number to 30 or something.

[chancellor]

Wow. PA, Commish Office and other owners must all despise A's ownership. They were a playoff team in 2012, 2013, 2014

I'd say that's long been known. They get screwed by the Giants and the owners that support the Giants constantly.

That being said, there's still no reason a smart, capital conscious ballpark hasn't been constructed yet.

[mjl]

Wow. PA, Commish Office and other owners must all despise A's ownership. They were a playoff team in 2012, 2013, 2014

This has been coming for quite a while: http://www.smallmarketball.com/2012/...ng-for-as.html (note this article is from March 2012, before the playoff run)

[Fresno Bob]

I'd say that's long been known. They get screwed by the Giants and the owners that support the Giants constantly.

That being said, there's still no reason a smart, capital conscious ballpark hasn't been constructed yet.

Either the City of San Jose needs to hand the Giants 200M and buy out their "baseball rights" or the A's need to move to Sacramento

[rhd]

26th roster Spot - not happening.

But they can almost use the new 10-day DL as a 26th spot for pitchers, unless there is other language restricting or inhibiting this.

Smokeless Tobacco - now a banned substance.

I wonder what the penalties will be for violation? Same as recreational drugs seems too harsh.