Ken Rosenthal reports that the new collective bargaining agreement is complete and will be announced Monday:

The new agreement will not be perfect; several GMs already are livid over the new restraints on draft spending. Other details, including the creation of two additional wild-card playoff berths, also are certain to spark debate. But while reasonable people can disagree over parts of the deal, the players and owners at least understand that no issue is big enough to bring down the entire sport.

So much has changed since the days when the owners pushed clumsily for a salary cap, or something close to it, driving a wedge between the two sides.

The union, created by the single-minded vision of Marvin Miller, was unyielding. The owners, meanwhile, were divided between big markets and small, creating additional problems.

As it turned out, the owners never got a cap, unlike their brethren in other professional sports leagues. But together with the union, they created greater parity by adopting revenue sharing and a luxury tax.

At the moment, baseball is in better shape than the other sports. Baseball offers the most freedom for its players, and that makes the sport better.