That should do nothing but help the Braves. They are building through their farm, as they should, but the Two Johns keep saying the club eventually is going to spend on free agents to fill holes on the big-league roster. The new CBA should make the Braves more competitive in that regard because it at least makes the mega-spending clubs think harder about overspending and it makes qualifying free agents a little more attractive to the Braves.
Those kind of deals still would hurt the Braves under the new CBA but now clubs like the Dodgers will feel a little more pain for their own bad contracts. Eventually the tighter spending decisions of the richer clubs should trickle down market to benefit the Braves.
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