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At least they now get a reasonable housing stipend.Perhaps paying minor league players more generously might convince more athletes to play baseball!
At least they now get a reasonable housing stipend.Perhaps paying minor league players more generously might convince more athletes to play baseball!
I think the window is Valentine's day to March 1st myself (pretty much your prediction), unless enough owners just want to get it over with..
Random question - is it a simple majority that is required on "votes" or does it take a greater percentage for things to pass?
Big sticking points are:
MLB wants a $100m salary floor funded by a 25% tax on payrolls over $180m that gradually increases year to year ending at $220m.
MLBPA wants the tax threshold raised to $245m and no non-tax penalties.
MLBPA wants to eliminate $100m of revenue sharing in an effort to stop smaller markets from just pocketing profits and not reinvesting them into their teams.
MLB wants nothing to do with that.
MLBPA wants to close service time manipulation loop holes.
MLB wants nothing to do with any of their proposals.
Those are the big ones that will take time. Some other lesser items:
MLB wants to keep current FA structure of 6 years or have a universal age 29.5 FA line.
MLBPA wants 6 years of service or 5 years of service and 29.5 age, which ever comes first.
MLB wants to keep 3 years of arb.
MLBPA wants 4.
Both MLB and MLBPA want an expanded playoff to at least 12 teams. Both are in favor of a draft lotto, just not how to go about doing it yet. MLB proposed eliminating the QO and teams losing draft picks to sign guys who reject it, which the MLBPA is all for. Both are in favor of the universal DH. Both have tentatively agreed on further marketing initiatives. Both are in favor of finding additional compensation for pre-arb players through revenue sharing from expanded playoffs or tax on payrolls.
Then there are the on field issues they'll have to hammer out when all of that is figured out.
Can you explain the benefit of four years of arb vs three for the players?
Would figure that would be backwards. Is it to gain an extra year from the renewable?
Snoook... a really fun fish to catch...Maybe I should be blurring his face in the image.
How united are the owners on this? While all of the players would be supporting the points that the MLBPA are seeking, wouldn't the owners of large market owners also be ok with the same points? Wouldn't this basically boil down to the MLBPA + large market owners vs small market owners?Yeah. Big thing the MLBPA wants this go round of CBA negotiations is to get guys paid more earlier in their careers. It's also how arbitration used to be in the 70s and 80s when it was first introduced. Why they want pre-arb bonus money for guys too and a complete overhaul of the player valuation system for arbitration cases.
They figure if guys get paid more quicker it will limit the amount of teams, like Cleveland currently, who are more than willing to sit back and operate over lengths of time with a ton of league minimum contracts for high level production.
This is a sticky point for owners though because some organizations, like Cleveland, have a consistent history of drafting or developing players to kick off their contention and spending windows and punishing a team for drafting/developing well seems stupid.
Both sides are going to have to thread a needle on a lot of these issues, as a lot of the best case scenarios are combos of what both sides want, save for a few areas.
How united are the owners on this? While all of the players would be supporting the points that the MLBPA are seeking, wouldn't the owners of large market owners also be ok with the same points? Wouldn't this basically boil down to the MLBPA + large market owners vs small market owners?
ETA: I was referring more to how revenue is shared, the luxury thresholds, salary floor, etc rather than just the number of arbitration years.
Yes much too simple as you are effectively ignoring the biggest sticking point. Money.So give the players a 4th year of arbitration, give the owners expanded playoffs, make the DH universal, and call it a deal. Everything else is just details or too draconian to get done.
Much too simple, I know.
Yeah, this isn't simple because the primary point of contention is payroll/tax thresholds/tax rates & penalties/revenue sharing amongst the franchises and not the typical MLBPA and ownership split of revenues. It's no longer about how much of the cut they get for the MLBPA, they want more consistent spending and competitiveness league wide and for guys to be better taken care of earlier on in their careers at the MLB level.
Add on top of that service time manipulation and gameplay improvements, which ownership is using as a bargaining chip for players and have already pulled off the table, and it's going to take a good bit of time.
MLBPA spent the last decade stocking their coffers for this set of negotiations specifically. They're loaded up enough to take this thing into the season and well beyond and keep guys paid/secure and happy to stay united.
Both sides are going to have to be very open and very willing to negotiate, otherwise this is going to ruin the game when it starts costing parts of the season.
These are going to be the most contentious CBA negotiations in MLB history...maybe even the most contentious in American professional sports history. The 2 groups are so far a part right now and neither have been willing to move off of their primary outlooks on the previously mentioned issues for over a year now.