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After the Players Association declined Major League Baseball’s request for federal mediation – dragging out a lockout that then had no end in sight – Max Scherzer laid out the union’s desires.

Consider it the players’ checklist for the new Collective Bargaining Agreement.

“We want a system,” the Mets starter tweeted on Feb. 4, “where threshold and penalties don’t function as caps, allows younger players to realize more of their market value, makes service time manipulation a thing of the past, and eliminate tanking as a winning strategy.”