Welcome aboard the only operating time machine in American sports media. As you read this, you are being throttled forward in time by roughly a year. ("Roughly" because the machine still has trouble with exact dates.) Soon, you will be on the lapsed side of the current collective bargaining agreement between Major League Baseball and the Players Association, set to expire at 11:59 p.m. ET on Dec. 1, 2026 (or exactly one year from today). Soon, you might find yourself in the midst of another owner-imposed lockout.

Although this offseason is only starting to heat up, curious minds have questions about how next winter, and its potentially nasty labor talks, will play out. The top concern, according to proprietary internal surveying, pertains to the possibility of a salary cap. That's predict

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