Never trust journalists with math.
Minimum salary
The minimum is no small matter in baseball, affecting a sizable number of players as the league skews younger. As Travis Sawchik wrote in November, 571 players (63.2 percent of all MLB players in 2019, the last season in which complete full-season data was available) had between zero and three years of service. All but the Super Twos — the 22 percent of two-plus players who qualified for arbitration — were essentially bound to salaries at the minimum or slightly above.
Even if they bump it a full 200k per player that is $114M or 3.8M per team. About 3% of the average payroll. But that's somehow a deal break.
