Major League Baseball and the Major League Baseball Players Association are reportedly close to an agreement that would change up some of the rules in the game that we all love. Ronald Blum of The Associated Press covered some of the news and ideas that are likely to happen and that were proposed.

The rules won’t take place this season, but will start in the 2020 season. Some are smaller moves, but two are rather large. The rosters will expand by one player, going from 25 to 26 on the active roster. Currently teams can use a 26th player when they have a double header, but only on that day. This will create 30 new jobs across Major League Baseball.

On the flip side of things, expanded rosters in September would be drastically reduced. Currently teams can call up anyone on the 40-man roster for September if they choose. Teams never call up all 40 players, but they could if they wanted to. After this season that number will be cut down to just 28 players. That means that once September rolls around a team will only be able to add two players.

There’s also a stipulation that of the roster size is limited in how it can be utilized. When the roster is at 26 players, there can only be 13 pitchers. When it’s expanded in September it can only have 14 pitches. This is designed to limit the number of pitching changes a team can make during any given game.

One thing discussed, but may not happen until the next collective bargaining agreement relates to the draft. The players union discussed changing something about the draft that would discourage teams from “tanking” in favor of a higher draft position. What change that is, or would be, was not listed.

A week ago, Ken Rosenthal wrote about some of these proposed changes at The Athletic. Along with the changes in the draft, which were only described as “incentives”, the players union also wanted to work with service time adjustments but backed off of both.

The union initially sought to address its competitive concerns by proposing draft incentives and service-time adjustments, knowing more sweeping economic changes were unlikely in the middle of the CBA. Baseball acknowledged the union’s concerns by countering both proposals, but the sides were so far apart the union believed it better to pursue a narrower focus, sources said. The union almost certainly would re-introduce the ideas, along with more far-reaching economic elements, in the next round of discussions.

It’s going to be interesting to see how this particular aspect of things turns out in the future. It’s going to be a few years, though, if this will only be addressed in the next collective bargaining agreement. The current agreement extends through the 2021 season.