“The league’s proposal is to slash overall player compensation from where it stands now by hundreds of millions, lock it in, and guarantee it can never grow more than revenues again,” Meyer said. “If players had agreed to a deal like the one that has been proposed at any time in the past two decades, their losses would be in the billions.”
Today, during collective bargaining negotiations with the league, the MLBPA made proposals to protect and improve the amateur draft with a series of offers designed to attract elite talent, enhance competition, protect players at all levels of the draft, and support smaller market clubs