Someone Explain Ceiling and Floor Concept

[casey1024]

Good morning.

I’m kinda in bed with it. I think I gotta a handle. It’s gonna be a big deal soon, so we might as well understand the process.

My take-

Floor. Every olayer on the 26 man makes at least floor money. Nothing less.

Questions- is the floor a team event, a olayer event or are there two floors. When a player gets called up from farm. Does he get floor money.

Ceiling. Same idea. A player or team cannot go over a particular line. So many players could all make the same amount. No highest paid player anymore.

Question- how does trades affect ceilings. If you are at the ceiling team level then what:

Just a few. Thanks in advance.

MLB has a 2026 minimum player salary of $780,000. That's unrelated to the salary cap/floor discussions that will likely surface in negotiations over the next CBA. The cap and/or floor if enacted would be at a team level. Individual salaries would vary. As for going over a hypothetical cap with a trade that's entirely TBD by negotiations.

Will the CBA holdup be for this issue- cap/floor. Or is there another huckleberry.

I think the issues of player minimums and free agency and so I will also be discussed. If this was the NBA then bringing up a player like JJW probably already have a guaranteed four year contract worth multiple millions per year. Not what a veteran would make, but exponentially higher than the rookie minimum today. Skenes would have been making 8 figures since his debut.

Players like Noot and Gorman and Libby would already be free agents in most other leagues. This idea of player control lasting longer than the average career, is one that’s going to go away sooner or later. Probably sooner. It benefits ownership much too heavily at the expense of the talent.

You may be right.....but something to think about in the longer control thing is the fact that the NBA and NFL use the colleges for farm systems and the MLB has that expense over it's head. I watch a ton of MILB games where there are less than 50 fans at a game. Something would have to change there.