I' m not sure about a soft cap, would need to hear more (I'm opening to learning tho), but I can easily get behind a salary floor. I definitely hear you there.

But there's ere offering the same or similar terms as other teams for those players. So it isn't JUST a willingness to spend.

My buds and I call that the tipping point. What would those Top 5 be?

Remarkable restraint, and a cruel tease surely achieved by the gods of baseball conspiring with the patron saint of literary self indulgence (probably British)