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Anthony Castrovince I work for MLB obviously. But I can understand, in theory, why a cap/floor is a + for fans and, by extension, revenue growth. I don’t understand how MLBPA proposals (so far at least) are a + for fans and growth, though I welcome explanations.
Call the ambulance but not for me meme
The owners in Major League Baseball aren’t entitled to a profit just because the last few decades have provided one. Owners like to say that baseball is a business, that capital is entitled to its profits because it takes all the risks. Ownership has certainly taken the profits over these last few decades, but now that they are in question, they’re asking players to share the pain; owners seek to inoculate themselves from the very risk used to justify their percentage of the profits. More succinctly, they’ve privatized the profits, and now want to socialize the losses.
Brick Top from Snatch
My kids love the magic tree house books. What should they read next?
Lenyn Sosa of the Toronto Blue Jays. His first name is pronounced Len-een.
three players are down on the field, the umpire is kneeling calmly
Australian officials ask fans to respect the privacy of Neil, a 1-ton seal who respects nothing “It’s Neil’s world and we’re just living in it,” one local said...
Advertising Lullabye Now a lot of these company names and product names are influenced by marketing and advertising people and this next thing is about advertising. *By the way, if you should have any cognitive dissonance about the fact that I do commercials for 10-10-220 and still attack advertising up here, well, you’re just gonna have to figure that shit out on your own okay?* Now this is called “Advertising Lullaby”, keeping in mind of course that the whole purpose of advertising is to lull you to sleep.
Who benefits? (Most players and fans) Citation needed. The union argues that trickle-down economics work in MLB. Yes, elite players have functioned as price setters in the baseball labor market as their earnings influence the free agent, arbitration, and extension markets. But those trickle-down economics do not reach the largest cohort of players: the pre-arbitration players. They play at or near the league minimum. [angry goose meme] Why do they play at or near the league minimum. WHY DO THEY PLAY AT OR NEAR THE LEAGUE MINIMUM?!?
"For decades, baseball’s labor system delayed access to the open market. This proposal moves in the opposite direction." Reader, I will be frank with you. This is where I broke down. “Baseball’s labor system delayed access to the open market” has been nominated and unanimously elected to the passive voice hall of fame. The five-year waiting period has been waived. It is the first non-police-involved headline to receive such treatment.
Over the long term, this economic framework could be a massive tailwind. Combined with a salary floor and cap, and shared media dollars, there would likely be an increase in revenues because there would be more fan bases invested. *More balance would almost certainly lead to greater TV deals* as it would be a less bifurcated sport.
The MLBPA's top objection is that salary caps reduce the earnings potential of the league's highest-paid players. Significant restrictions are placed on the top of the player pay pyramid in this proposal. But the disagreement is less about whether players should be paid more or less in aggregate, and more about which point in the career curve the marginal dollar should be concentrated.
Who benefits? (Most players and fans)
Players are debuting later, and spending fewer years in the Major Leagues. Over the last 40 years, average player age is on a slow descent, declining by 0.7 years from an average of 28.6 years over the 1986-88 seasons, to 27.9 years over the last three seasons. Meanwhile, the average debut age increased from an average of 23.7 (1986-88) to 25.1 years over the last three seasons. Player careers are being pinched at their beginnings and endings.
Reasonable people can debate whether this proposal strikes the proper balance. But the larger point shouldn't be overlooked. For decades, baseball's labor system delayed access to the open market. This proposal moves in the opposite direction. And it needs to.
The headline item in the reserve proposal is allowing players to reach free agency earlier. In Thursday's proposal, MLB agreed to reduce the service time required to reach free agency to five years instead of six for players 30 and older. It's tied to the acceptance of a cap-and-floor system. The six-year standard has been in place since free agency itself was introduced in 1976. Getting to free agency a year earlier is a big deal.
Travis Sawchik: "This century, baseball increasingly is a sport where value is created early but compensation arrives late. Younger players are producing more wins than ever before while veterans continue receiving a disproportionate share of payroll." Something has to give. An analysis:
Mariners GM Justin Hollander
@mikefossey: "its stupid when girls say they cant find a guy, yet they ignore me. its like saying youre hungry when theres a hot dog on the ground outside" r/TrollXChromosomes - @mikefossey: "its stupid when girls say they cant find a guy, yet they ignore me. its like saying youre hungry when theres a hot dog on the ground outside"
I'd like to formally invite the Pope to subscribe to Baseball Prospectus (no discounts)
Colin Kaepernick had the right to protest. So do the Giants’ Bible-verse pitchers. Scott Ostler
Oklahoma University pitcher Cord Rager
Mother Tongue by Sara Novic on the shelf at Politics & Prose
Picture of a form that says "all about my dad" and then it starts with: my dad's name is "Crig"
@Homestand #BlueJays GM Ross Atkins "when you're talking about free agency you're talking about aging players and the trend of overpaying a player's aging curves has come to an end across baseball" 9:09 PM · Feb 1, 2018
Jeff Passan: MLB today proposed an overhauled domestic amateur-entry system that removes high school players from the draft, makes college players eligible after sophomore year, shortens the draft from 20 to 12 rounds, and cuts bonus pool from current $358.7M to $200M, sources tell ESPN.
Look. The city is best when we all work together. The Mets and Knicks are intrinsically linked. Their success is our success. Our failures are their failures. Someday soon, maybe they could take some more of the failures off our plate. Or we could just both be good. Who knows, who cares. It’s a perfect exchange; we celebrate them, they know about us. Presumably.
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Craig texting: Nick Martinez got an awkward swing out of Tucker. Tucker might be cooked.
Iran War Live Updates: Agreement Brings Relief but No Resolution on Biggest Issues
Angus Gunn, Scotland's World Cup Goalie
STL P Gabriel Chinchilla https://www.baseballprospectus.com/player/171893/gabriel-chinchilla/
Post from October 2016 Once again I would like to propose a system like Hawkeye in tennis where everyone claps as a simulation takes place and we all move on I have made a radical turn from "getting the call right" to "making a decision everyone accepts" and I think you should join me.
@jayhaykid Ben Brown since moving to the rotation this season: 31 ⅓ 16 H 5 R 8 BB 34 K 1.44 ERA/1.89 FIP. He has not allowed a HR since March 26 and has not allowed a HR in a game he *started* since July 27 of last season.
Curious George ordering 100 dozen donuts
Sasaki is also throwing more sliders to right-handed hitters over his last three starts. Usage of the pitch has jumped from 24% to 35%, and it’s generating the most whiffs in his mix right now.
"and even if it is largely perception it is still a problem."
“We actually have spent a lot of time on this topic, and teams that go through periods, particularly longer periods, of non-competitiveness, not only have lower revenues, but they are slower to recover once they become competitive,” Manfred said Wednesday. He didn’t offer specific figures.
MLB app widget thing that says "Sánchez breaks scoreless innings record for lefties"
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Foul Territory: A smaller gap from top to bottom in a capped league is going to reveal "who's really stupid and who's not," says @DavidPSamson. "You're never going to legislate away stupidity."
At my spin class tonight, they asked if I'd move up a few bikes because it was a small group, and I told them I had "very strong back row energy." The guy asked what that meant and I didn't know how to answer, so I just moved up, which is the most back-row-energy move of all
The Padres' haul does show progress for MLB: it suggests the league’s revenue multiple is growing. “The Padres were (sold for) seven times revenue, something like that, which is great relative to the rest of baseball,” Greenberg said of the $3.9 billion figure. “But as big as that number seems — they have done a terrific job, have really high revenue — as a multiple, it's still south of the NHL, probably south of Major League Soccer as well. And we think the reason for that is systemic.”
The average baseball team is worth $2.9 billion, more than double MLB’s $1.3 billion average from a decade ago, per Forbes’ annual estimates. But some franchises are appreciating at a much slower rate than others. When they put their teams up for sale in recent years, the owners of the Los Angeles Angels, Washington Nationals and Minnesota Twins were disappointed by the bids that came in.
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I assure you, despite this, there will be roles for all of you in the future of baseball. For instance, someone will have to fire all the human umpires. Just kidding. That was the first thing we made AI capable of doing. All right I will admit that I wrote that joke before I thought you were going to boo so much. Thankfully, the applause breaks I wrote in are covering for it but you all need to go home, take a good look in the AI mirror, and ask yourself why you hate progress as the mirror flags and points out each of your worst physical traits unprovoked. Oh, stop using your newly crafted ‘you’re outta here’ gestures to try and “eject” me from the ceremony.
No one believed in us at the beginning of the season. Make sure you fucking remind them all summer. Be insufferable, enjoy it, we waited a long time for this.