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Lesky’s Notes: Lockouts and projections

Your weekly lockout update is that the two sides at least spoke yesterday. It wasn’t a good conversation, but it was a conversation. That said, we’ve reached a point when just talking isn’t enough. When the owners made their proposal to the players, I think it was probably a lot less ridiculous than the initial reports that only focused on minimum salary and the luxury tax, but those also seem to be the most important points for the union, so… I still say that the number of items agreed on is at least sort of encouraging. They agree on expanded playoffs (I still hate it), universal DH, a draft lottery and a pre-arbitration bonus pool.