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Give me another covid stimulus and throw in a couple Coors lights and I might consider it.
Washington Nationals star Max Scherzer became the latest major athlete in the sport to dismiss Major League Baseball’s reported economic plan of a sliding scale salary to start the coronavirus-shortened 2020 season.
The World Series champion pitcher, a member of the MLB Players Association’s executive subcommittee, tweeted Wednesday that players are not going to take a pay cut beyond the prorated salaries they already agreed to when the league shut down during spring training.
Given the average ticket price across MLB of $ 33 and an average attendance of 28,000 for an entire season games, the total revenue stream for MLB is around $ 180 MM for an industry that typically approaches $ 10 BILLION dollars in total revenue. Thoughts?..
I want to add to this conversation before I step into some meetings (ie interviews) this afternoon. Below is a post I made on another chat board last night. I think there is relevance here for this conversation.Scott Boras should not be involved at all. He represents a select number of players, not them all. The MLBPA can represent themselves just fine. Boras should go pound salt.
Also, unless I missed it, Scherzer hasn't commented on Boras. Everything beyond Boras that Bauer has spoken on, Scherzer echoed.
Scott Boras should not be involved at all. He represents a select number of players, not them all. The MLBPA can represent themselves just fine. Boras should go pound salt.
Also, unless I missed it, Scherzer hasn't commented on Boras. Everything beyond Boras that Bauer has spoken on, Scherzer echoed.
aside from the math..My first thought is that I'd really like to see your calculations for that total of $180M in lost gate revenue. Because using your own numbers of average ticket price and average attendance, I came up with $2.25B. But the actual number for total gate revenue in 2019 was even larger -- $2.86B.
MLB league revenue 2021 | Statista
In 2021, Major League Baseball, the North American professional baseball league, had an overall revenue of 9.56 billion U.S.www.statista.com
And if concessions, etc., were even half that, you're talking a full-season loss of $4.3B. For a half season, that means owners would have to pay players their full per-game salaries, while having somewhere around $2.15B less in revenue. It's not quite that high because you'd still get playoff revenues, but we're still talking perhaps 10 times your estimate of $180M. I think the owners would have to be nuts to hold a season in which they are guaranteed to lose that much money. Guys like Dolan would go belly-up.
The players' apparent insistence on full pro-rated salaries is simply asinine. The owners won't be making anything close to the same pro-rated revenue for each game because there won't be any fans, so paying the same pro-rated salaries on substantially less revenue is a non-starter. If the players truly insist on that...there won't be a season at all.
aside from the math..
insisting on full pro-rata dovetails into the sacrifice already befalling the MLBPA membership. The players have already lost half a season f
Looking at this from another direction.. the decision to NOT allow fans, technically, has nothing to do with the players playing the games.. The players are still subject to injury, replacement etc.. all the risks and less than 1/2 the remuneration.. won't fly..
While this may not be the most popular position.. Scott Boras, like Hyman Roth, always makes money for his clients. Without input from Boras, the owners and the MLBPA have agreed to a $ 170 MM fund to pay the players during the Covid-19 hiatus. While that seems like a lot of money for the average person ( a little under $ 2,000/day per 40 man rostered player over a 90 day period).. that's one one hundredth of what a guy like Mike Trout typically earns. The owners have proposed payment of just over 40 % of the players salary under the auspicies the owners revenues are significantly cut by not having fans in the stands. Given the average ticket price across MLB of $ 33 and an average attendance of 28,000 for an entire season games, the total revenue stream for MLB is around $ 180 MM for an industry that typically approaches $ 10 BILLION dollars in total revenue. Assume for a microsecond that the revenues for parking and concessions and other are two times ticket revenue (it's not) and cut that in half for a half season, then the revenue stream should support at least more than 80 % of the players salaries. Being offered half of that.. is disrespectful.. and why a guy like Boras.. who preaches fiscal respect for his clients, says this can't be done..
Boras is right.. Scherzer is right (btw... Bauer is wrong..) The MLBPA desperately needs to have strong representation into their right to a fair and acceptable compromise. The MLBPA must also understand that over playing their hand... ie. having the season concelled, could be the outcome.
A difficult case... to be sure..
Thoughts?..
Talk about a conflict of interest.
....and if individual players dont think its worth the risk, then fine. They can sit things out and not get paid. But there are a lot more players in MLB that need to be playing, than those that have a build up of millions of dollars.