The 2025 World Series could end as soon as tonight, which means baseball’s offseason could begin as soon as tomorrow. That means a lot of dates and deadlines and transactions and fun are coming, as they always do this time of year.
But this offseason, it also means the drumbeat of labor strife is going to begin again. The current Collective Bargaining Agreement expires after the 2026 season, and everyone knows what a profoundly thorny negotiation that is going to be. We’ve already seen some of the negotiations happening via the press, with talk of a salary cap popping up periodically over the past few months, but the postseason has a bit of power to quell the ugliness. Nobody really wants to dig in on these topics when they can instead just watch Vladimir Guerrero Jr. and Shohei Ohtani do incredible things, you know?
So, that is to say, you can brace yourself for an uptick in labor talk, reports, leaks, and whatnot in the months ahead, the final full offseason before the CBA’s expiration. It is not fun, but I would argue that it’s better for a lot of this stuff to come up now than have it be total silence for the next 12 months. Then you’d REALLY be assured of a lengthy lockout when the CBA expires at the end of November next year.
With all that in mind, I was happy to see a little positivity come across my transom today, and I thought you might want to see it, too.
The Athletic’s Evan Drellich, who just dropped a crazy report on an alleged agent “mole” working with the Commissioner’s Office back in 2020, was recently on Foul Territory to discuss the state of the game. There, among other things, he talked about the appetite around the league to really dig in heels to fight for a salary cap in the next CBA, even at the expense of months of games or an entire season.
It’s not all sunshine and rainbows, obviously, but Drellich does not necessarily see a massive, lengthy fight as more likely than not:
There's no way Rob Manfred doesn't realize a work stoppage would be damaging to baseball, given its current momentum, says @EvanDrellich."I have little confidence at this moment that anybody is gonna want to drag this out for months, where people can turn away from baseball." pic.twitter.com/NmbcYTtiaZ
— Foul Territory (@FoulTerritoryTV) October 27, 2025In some ways, Drellich’s read on the situation tracks a bit with something we’ve heard from ESPN’s Jeff Passan, who hinted at the possibility that a lost season will simply be too much for owners to stomach at this particular juncture, when national TV rights are going to be so important after 2028. A salary cap has significant value to the various organizations, yes, but imploding the rest of your revenue streams to get there might not be worth it.
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