Disgusting Baseball, a Cleveland Guardians Podcast
May 30, 2026 · 1 hr 4 min · 10 segments
The looming CBA negotiations are upon us as owners and the MLBPA have initiated their first drafts towards a new collective bargaining agreement. Matt (@BelowAverageOPS) and Nick (@nickakaravolos)…
Matt SeeseHostAll right, so I think that there are I'm just going to do a rundown of the proposals from each side.
All of the information that I'm about to give you has been synthesized from like five different sources and then At the center of it, there's a great article from Fangraphs written by one of their authors, Ben Clemens, that tries to break down all this information and make it a little bit more digestible.
But the union, so their proposal emphasizes more than anything else revamped revenue sharing and fixing early career pay and basically just increasing it.
So to the revenue sharing aspect, one of their headlines was changing the distribution of TV money.
And local TV revenue sharing under the current CBA comes out to around $1.1 billion in the centralized and redistributed money.
So under the new proposal, it's a little bit weird um they have it like in a bracket system so the first 50 million dollars from each team's tv contract um is pooled plus 66 percent of everything above that 50 million is pooled along with all 100 of all national tv revenue um so that takes it from what it has been in the past at 1.1 billion to 2 billion which is about 30 million dollars um a team added in TV revenue for reference, the guardians, it's not exactly clear, but it's estimated that the guardians under their current TV deal make somewhere between like 10 and $25 million a year, which is a huge, um, obviously downgrade from what they used to have with Bally then FanDuel, um, which was more like 45 to 60.
All right, so I think that there are I'm just going to do a rundown of the proposals from each side.
All of the information that I'm about to give you has been synthesized from like five different sources and then At the center of it, there's a great article from Fangraphs written by one of their authors, Ben Clemens, that tries to break down all this information and make it a little bit more digestible.
But the union, so their proposal emphasizes more than anything else revamped revenue sharing and fixing early career pay and basically just increasing it.
So to the revenue sharing aspect, one of their headlines was changing the distribution of TV money.
And local TV revenue sharing under the current CBA comes out to around $1.1 billion in the centralized and redistributed money.
So under the new proposal, it's a little bit weird um they have it like in a bracket system so the first 50 million dollars from each team's tv contract um is pooled plus 66 percent of everything above that 50 million is pooled along with all 100 of all national tv revenue um so that takes it from what it has been in the past at 1.1 billion to 2 billion which is about 30 million dollars um a team added in TV revenue for reference, the guardians, it's not exactly clear, but it's estimated that the guardians under their current TV deal make somewhere between like 10 and $25 million a year, which is a huge, um, obviously downgrade from what they used to have with Bally then FanDuel, um, which was more like 45 to 60.
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