Jeff Passan

But in order to do so, there's going to have to be some what the union would look at as malicious actors convincing them that that's the case, because all of the rhetoric that they're going to be hearing from the union and from the union's message that it sends out will be continued that salary caps are bad for players and that this is going to be a net negative at the end of the day.

No, they're 100% would be some sort of grandfathering mechanism put into place because, you know, it's not like they're going to invalidate any of these contracts that have been signed.

I think they understand, but

I'll say this, if it's a $245.3 million cap, which is what MLB proposed, now that's its first proposal, certainly it will be willing to deviate from that if the players are on board.

But theoretically, if it's that...

We also have to subtract $23 million in benefits.

Right.

Yep.

So in reality, it would be a $222 million physical payroll that's going out to players.

Are you telling me that Jays would have traded for Andre Jimenez if they knew he was going to be taking up 10% of their payroll?

That's, you know, that's, that's,

That's the kind of thing.

And Vladdy is going to be taking up, you know, at $40 million a year, going to be taking up, you know, 16, 17% of the payroll.

And all of a sudden there, between those two, you have a quarter plus of your payroll taken up.

Then if we're looking at, again, 2027, Dylan Cease, $29 million.

Jose Barrios, $24 million.

Santander is in there.

Jeff Hoffman's getting paid.

We should probably just stop there.

We should probably just stop there.