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When will fans understand that hell will freeze over before the union agrees to a salary cap. They’ll go on strike before they’ll ever play with a cap. It’s the hill they’ll die on before any other issue.
Unfortunately, you are correct.
Considering it would require the owners opening up their books, I don’t think they really want one either.
The mistake the MLBPA made was agreeing to a flexible cap with penalties, but not demanding a flexible floor with penalties. Financial penalties are the only thing that will force the bottom teams to spend, which would have benefited the players.
Trading for CHC-Nico Hoerner would make sense for ATL, if giving up pitching prospects. Having Arcia is a decent floor that could allow Nico to come back at his own pace and transition to SS, while giving the offense more contact skills (career K-rate: 12%) at the lower-end of the lineup. I’d love to see him take Bob Horner’s #5, but someone else made it his own (tear).