well then you’re either bad at evaluating things, or made a series of poor choices. Either way, right there with you.

I know you’re joking but we lost Lin for maybe the rest of his contract with us the first game of this season after he was out the majority of last year AND lost DLo for 34 games on an injury that looked like nothing.

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.

The arbitration process is not fair. Mookie Betts was just awarded $10M in arbitration, and that was seen as a milestone amount. That’s less than half the $22M Hanley Ramirez will be paid next year since Hanley was allowed to negotiate is own salary on the open market while MVP candidate Betts has to just take…

You sound jealous. Too bad you weren’t really good at anything.

The arbitration process is fair? That’s absurd. Players can only negotiate with their own team and they are still paid below what the market would offer.

Oh hon. You should’ve just stayed down.

You’re factually incorrect on that. The arbitration system in years 4, 5, and 6 roughly follow the 40/60/80 rule, i.e. that the player gets 40% then 60% then 80% of their fair market value. By definition, players do not get their fair market value in arbitration.

I’m not sure you understand exactly how negotiations work or what “starting asking price” means. Also, Hosmer and Arrieta are both represented by Scott Boras, that’s one agent, not “agents”. Citing these two supposed asking prices, that are coming from one agent, that you just read about and were sourced from rumors…

“The agents this year are asking for far above true value though... I mean, not even close. It’s disingenuous to state otherwise.”

If you got paid a fraction of your value for three years you’d be singing a different tune.

...I mean, no, this isn’t tin foil hat land but rather a preliminary diagnosis based on the league’s previous behavior. The only way to answer this question is to do discovery; and the problem here is Trump’s NLRB will make Reagan’s look like a hypothetical NLRB consisting of, like, Romanian communists and…

...which is relevant as a major example of the deep history of collusive and anti competitive behavior displayed by the MLB. Precedent matters in these cases

The CBA negotiations are a different issue. The MLBPA absolutely should rearrange the weighting to favor younger players

MLB revenues have increased as the players’ share of that revenue has decreased. So when are the players supposed to get paid? They don’t get paid much as rookies, and most don’t get big paydays during the arb process, so when? At what point should the players expect to get their fair share of MLB revenues?

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.

Libertarianism is Astrology for douchebags.

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