Arden Zwelling

Yeah, and it seems to me, just very quickly reading through these, most of these are adjustments to the economic structure as presently constituted.

And I feel like the owner's side is actually going to be looking to blow that up.

It's going to be looking to create a completely different structure that involves a salary cap of some form.

So MLB's proposal might not even look anything like MLBPA's because it looks like

When LBPA is talking about bonus pools and the qualifying offers and pre-art bonus program and minimum salaries, all this kind of stuff, competitive balance tax, et cetera, this is all stuff that exists now.

They're just trying to sort of nudge money.

or move some of the levers of it, the specifics of it, towards a more pro-player side.

Whereas I wonder if the ownership proposal is actually going to look like an entirely new system that doesn't really resemble the one that currently exists.

Yeah, what's difficult for us is a lot of what's said in those rooms stays in those rooms for good reason.

But it's like even background, off-record, whatever, it's hard to pry too many anecdotes out of those conversations.

He got Dylan Carlson to ground out and Felix Reyes hit a single.

And a player whose name I'm not even going to attempt to pronounce right now,

grounded into a force out.

So Josh Fleming's on the mound for the Bisons.

It's at the Letters for Sunday, May 24th, 2026.

Artem Zwelling here with Ben Nicholson-Smith.

We have a whole team of producers on this one that we are recording right after Sunday's Blue Jays loss to the Pittsburgh Pirates 4-1.

Here at Rogers Centre, we're in the Fan 590 studio.

broadcast booth and we are joined by show ali andrew adams and tom young thank you to all three of them for helping us out with putting this thing together fitting it into our busy schedules because it's 17 and 17 for us too ben not just for the blue jays

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