Jesse Rogers of ESPN reports that Major League Baseball’s latest proposal to the Major League Baseball Player’s Association contains a limit for max contract length.
The contract limit would be five years for free agent players switching teams, and six years for players who choose to re-sign with their team. New acquisitions would be have a max salary of 15 percent of the cap in the first year. The max deal in 2027 would be five years, $202 million. The proposal also calls for an elimination for deferrals; a contention that has been brought up after the significant money deferred to players like Shohei Ohtani and Kyle Tucker over the last few years. The qualifying offer would also be removed in this new system, and players would be able to reach free agency in five years if they would have turned 30 years or older. The MLBPA will likely have a response to these proposals shortly.
