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  1. Brock Beauchamp
    Okay, that's enough. You're just making stuff up now. The players backed off their free agency demands weeks ago, it was one of the first things they conceded when negotiations began. Were they supposed to back off their demands while owners refused to talk to them? You're allowed your own opinions but not your own facts. If you continue to just make stuff up, I will remove your ability to post in this thread and future threads about labor negotiations.
  2. Brock Beauchamp
    I don't think this is true. The Twins were essentially the Rays in the 2000s. If a team is simply smarter and better at finding and developing players than everybody else, that team will do more with less money. That has always been the case in baseball, the only thing that has changed is how teams are smarter. While the Twins were being smart and good without analytics, the A's were being smart and good with analytics.
  3. Brock Beauchamp
    If anyone wants a good, nuanced take on the lockout and where the two sides are right now, Effectively Wild (as usual) does a great job of it. Today, they brought in Evan Drellich, who has probably been the best reporter through this process. https://blogs.fangraphs.com/effectively-wild-episode-1818-smile-youre-on-manfred-camera/
  4. Brock Beauchamp
    Given how players have basically toed the line across 100% of the MLBPA, it's hard to envision there's much, if any, strife between players at different points in their careers. For good or bad, players appear to be united. As for the player reps, not all of them are highly paid veterans... for example, Taylor Rogers has been the Twins rep for the past couple of years. He made $6m last season and less than $2m the previous season. He's not going to be following the likes of Max Scherzer without considering how that impacts him and people like him.
  5. Brock Beauchamp
    I'm having a really hard time deciding whether I dislike Bill Madden or Scott Boras more and which one is less believable in this situation. But I know that if Scott Boras has an outsized voice in the CBA negotiations, the MLBPA is run by idiots. Scott Boras is phenomenal at getting his clients the money but will actively burn down everyone else around them to do it. He is one of the last people who should be leaned on for advice in this situation.
  6. Brock Beauchamp
    The problem with a cap and floor is that they don't work without increased sharing. Unless the Pirates are receiving a boatload of money from the Dodgers and Yankees, the floor has to be set so low that its impact is diminished to the point of it not helping the players much. If more MLB teams were on equal footing financially, I suspect the players would drop their anti-cap stance. If the Pirates were forced to spend $140m and the Yankees could spend up to $220m and both were profitable doing so, a bunch of these corollary problems over minimum salaries, free agency control, arbitration, etc. go away with minimal fanfare because they simply don't matter as much anymore. The situation cascades at that point; fix the big, perpetual problem and the smaller negotiating points are easily resolved and with a hell of a lot less animosity.
  7. Brock Beauchamp
    Owners, for the good of the sport, could voluntarily offer to increase revenue sharing in trade for keeping a lower CBT and a salary floor. The owners are the only ones who can fix the biggest issue in the sport. Even if their fix isn't perfect or complete, they only need 23 votes to implement a policy. If there was a will to increase sharing in trade for concessions they want, it could be done. They don't need the votes of the Yankees or Dodgers to get it done, they only need to make it a positive factor for the Cardinals, Twins, Braves, et al. Yet we haven't even heard a peep about making this kind of drastic change to the game, a change the majority of fans would eagerly support.
  8. Brock Beauchamp
    Yeah, just like they do in other, more successful and growing, professional sports leagues around the world.
  9. Brock Beauchamp
    The real, permanent fix for baseball needs to come from ownership, as the players have zero control over it: the revenue disparity between teams. In a situation where the Dodgers are receiving $250m from television and the Brewers are receiving $40m, literally every other fix is a band-aid working around the elephant in the room that everyone refuses to acknowledge. If the owners shared revenue for the good of the sport and its competitive balance, the fix involving the players becomes incredibly easy: Give the players 50% of revenue, set a cap and floor, and let players sort it out amongst themselves. Let them dictate how much the base salary is, how much arbitration is worth, how quickly it happens, all of which would be decided with the knowledge that any significant increases to the salary of young players comes at the expense of veterans.
  10. Brock Beauchamp
    Literally LOLing over here.
  11. Brock Beauchamp
    Don't even get me started down that path. Both sides have some really simple quality of game fixes but both are too busy hitting the other over the head with a foam mallet to implement those fixes.
  12. Brock Beauchamp
    The universal DH is good for the sport, IMO. I wish the players and owners could agree on this type of thing with more frequency. But I also don't give either side credit for agreeing to such a no-brainer decision because both sides benefit. The players get more money and extend careers while owners get more protection for their fragile and highly-paid arms. It's a win all around for everyone and it should have happened years ago.
  13. Brock Beauchamp
    Half the teams in the AL don't even have a dedicated DH, what makes anyone think the NL is going to be any different?
  14. Brock Beauchamp
    Yes, please.
  15. Brock Beauchamp
    Is anyone actually making this argument, though? All I've seen is condemnation for how the MLBPA treats its young players, both the pre-arb guys and the minor leaguers. It's literally the biggest (and probably most valid) complaint I see about the union.
  16. Brock Beauchamp
    The players wouldn't have walked out in April but they almost surely would have walked out in August. But no matter what the players would have theoretically done, the owners locked them out. That is a fact. Mike is correct that players would be in Florida and Arizona right now had the owners not locked them out.
  17. Brock Beauchamp
    As soon as owners do this, I will support them whole-heartedly. While we're just making up fairytale scenarios, I'd also like to be able to fly. That sounds fun.
  18. Brock Beauchamp
    Sure, the owners that are pushing hard to preserve tanking, want less revenue sharing, would love to go back to indentured servitude of players, want to expand the postseason to include 50% of teams, while also implementing a hard cap have the sport's best interests at heart. You go ahead and keep believing that nonsense. Unlike your fetishization of the owners' motivations, I hold no pretenses that the MLBPA has the sport's best interests in mind, I simply realize they're not the biggest villains right now. You claim to want baseball back yet you're actively cheering on the side that locked out the players, then didn't negotiate for 45 days, then ran right to their own artificial deadline by making incremental moves of less than half a percentage point in a year when inflation is nearly 5%, all while demanding a really bad postseason plan that would devalue the regular season so they could put an additional $150m+ in their pockets. If the owners were even half as benevolent as you seem to believe, they'd offer a 50/50 split with revenue in trade for a hard cap and floor, just like other sports do. Except owners won't do that because the players would agree to it before they finished the sentence. Tell me again how you're such a baseball fan and on the side of light again, please.
  19. Brock Beauchamp
    This is exactly how I feel and far more politely stated than I care to state. Well said.
  20. Brock Beauchamp
    Why are you such an obvious shill for billionaires who don’t love the sport you seem to love? I would rebut most of what you typed but why bother? It only validates the gross nature of your opinion.
  21. Brock Beauchamp
    This is such a garbage take, Chief, and you should be embarrassed for it. Have you looked at what the owners have done for the past 2+ years through Covid and these "negotiations"? They've been straight-up union-busters, nothing more. As the MLBPA caved through concession after concession, the owners did things like raise the CBT by less than inflation and then asked for expanded playoffs in return. Yours is the worst of worst takes. If you want the sport to be better, crushing the union is not the way to get there. The players have their own issues, of which I've complained about ad nauseam, but right now the owners are the biggest problem in the sport and it's not close. They're so busy protesting and protecting their $80m payrolls and the lack of competition that they can't even see the fans that stopped caring ten years ago. And now you want even more fans to stop caring so those multi-billionaires can make a few million more. Huzzah and cheers for that.
  22. Brock Beauchamp
    Everything we should need to know about the owners' position is the fact their lead negotiator is Dick Monfort, owner of the Colorado Rockies, perhaps the most obviously incompetent organization in all of baseball.
  23. Brock Beauchamp
    Well, the best we can hope for at this point is for the media to accurately report what the owners did here and rightfully blast the **** out of them for it. It won't be hard to spot the owners' lapdogs over the next few days.
  24. Brock Beauchamp

    I am so pleasantly surprised that the two sides are closing in on a deal. I thought the chance of that happening was close to zero.

  25. Brock Beauchamp
    No, this is definitely not the CBA we need but it's probably the one baseball deserves.
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