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Yeah, that’s true I’m not actually suggesting I have a solution to fix Jake Arrieta’s issue. In all reality, he’s likely just hit free agency at the wrong time and he’ll have to eat this one.

Artificially suppressed means not functioning as a free market. That MLB is also a monopoly doesn’t help this. In either case, I’m not arguing how we got here I’m calling where we are what it is.

!!exclamation points!!

Yeah, you can blame the MLBPA as well. They’ve definitely spent the better part of the last decade screwing this up. The point remains the same, however.

Yeah I agree, the issue is that the MLBPA is beholden to current members and have been reticent to trade short term losses for long term gains. The irony is that, at least in theory, it would benefit veterans as well to prioritize these younger players. The thought being that they’re being undercut by people who can…

The argument is that the market for the majority of players (read: less than 8 years service time) is artificially suppressed. Try and keep up homie.

I 100% agree with this. Not only that, but paying younger players fairly will raise salaries for over players. No point in overpaying for a veteran when you can get the same value from someone who is 22 because their salary is artificially suppressed.

Somehow you think “get by on” and “paid fair market value” are the same thing.

Not sure why you think it’s disingenuous considering you have no idea what the offers are. But whatever let’s look at some actual data.

Aging players not being over paid is fine (though we can argue whether that’s what’s actually happening here). What’s not fine, however, is that they’ve had their salaries artificially suppressed for 7 years during their rookie and arbitration years. If you’re advocating for them not making that money up on the back…

No shit you dumb motherfucker. Try looking up the word paradoxically next time.

Paradoxically it seems the best path forward for the MLBPA is to fight for the players not yet in the league. Teams have (correctly) changed course on paying replacement level players in their 30's tens of millions of dollars, and because the young players in the league are getting so fucked for so long into their…

If a big city was so important to him why would he have ever gone to a shit hole like cleveland?

I would pay more money to live next to Dave and his jeeps than to live under an HOA.

Their site is a shit show, but there is no world where the AMP one is better. The line length is a goddamn million miles long because it fills the browser.

Someone let Landon know it’s preferable if cancers don’t grow.

Are we comfortable calling that a freestyle? Cause he 100% wrote that shit.

All we need to do now is to dig up the Sklar Brothers.

Go back to your BLM protest, you fucking cunt.