Buster Olney wonders if the power struggle between MLB and the MLBPA is shifting in favor of the owners.

Wealth might have eroded the determination to enforce Miller's core principles, however. The sport is generating billions; the players are making millions. The respectful and cooperative relationship that has developed between Michael Weiner, players' counsel, and Rob Manfred, baseball's labor guru, is often cited by peers as being as asset.

But soon enough, we will know whether the owners will look to take back some of the financial landscape ceded in past battles.

I don't think so. My favorite book from college is The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. In that book Thomas Kuhn discusses how paradigm shifts happen becuase the old, hard-line believers in the previous theory die out. That happened in baseball. With George Steinbrenner stepping down, there are no owners who operated under the old reserve clause system. (George was always cool with free agency, so it was the departure of Selig from the Brewers that really ended the line.) Today's owners never knew the joy of being able to renew players year-to-year, so they really don't think about going back to that system. They operate in the confines of an agreement that allows them to keep most players under control through their prime seasons, and sign the best and the brightest when they become available. Owners today are much more interested in taking down the rich teams than the rich players. It's the unions job to make sure that taking down the rich teams doesn't hurt the players as well.