Slow Offseason around MLB

[Can_of_corn]

Passan:  https://sports.yahoo.com/heres-baseballs-economic-system-might-broken-224638354.html

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Over the last month, as Yahoo Sports spoke about the state of the market and the possibility of collusive behavior with more than four dozen people – officials from MLB and the union, agents, executives and players – what emerged was a game asking itself questions far more important than whether collusion exists: Is the foundation of the sport, a structure in place since the advent of free agency in the 1970s, still viable? Or is baseball’s economic system, its underpinning, broken?

What’s clear is the free agent impasse represents a reckoning long in the making – one that marries shifting power in labor relations, the emergence of analytics and cookie-cutter front offices, and the willingness of teams to treat competitiveness as an option, not a priority. Combined, they pose the greatest threat to a quarter century of labor peace and have people at the highest level of the sport asking whether a game-changing overhaul in how baseball operates isn’t just necessary but inevitable.

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Whether on account of a rebuild or the desire to profit, at least eight teams have no intention of being serious players in the current free agent market: the Atlanta Braves, Chicago White Sox, Cincinnati Reds, Detroit Tigers, Miami Marlins, Oakland A’s, Pittsburgh Pirates and Tampa Bay Rays. The Kansas City Royals and San Diego Padres could join them.

That’s 10 teams, a full third of MLB. The Marlins, Braves and Pirates haven’t spent a penny on a major league free agent this winter. Neither have the Rays nor the Baltimore Orioles. Both harbor playoff aspirations; each is waiting for the market to cave deeper. Players are panicking. Some are threatening to fire their agents if they don’t have jobs by the end of this week. It’s fertilizer for bargains.

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The inefficiency of the operation and the expectation that they must spend money there offends their sensibilities. And they’re not wrong. Players’ best years come in their 20s. Most free agents, then, are asking teams to guarantee them large sums of money for multiple years based on the performance of years they’re statistically unlikely to repeat. It’s not impossible, sometimes not even improbable, for them to do so. It’s just a risk, and as teams weigh the risk against that of seeking the same production from low-cost players they have developed, it’s one they’re less and less willing to take.

 

[Il BuonO]

23 minutes ago, Can_of_corn said:

Passan:  https://sports.yahoo.com/heres-baseballs-economic-system-might-broken-224638354.html

 

“Neither have the Rays nor the Baltimore Orioles. Both harbor playoff aspirations; each is waiting for the market to cave deeper. Players are panicking. Some are threatening to fire their agents if they don’t have jobs by the end of this week. It’s fertilizer for bargains.”

And there’s dancing in the streets of Baltimore.

 

[Il BuonO]

2 hours ago, Number5 said:

Yabba dabba dooo!

 

[Luke-OH]

Pretty interesting.

[Il BuonO]

45 minutes ago, Luke-OH said:

Pretty interesting.

Really don’t see how that benefits him.

[joelala]

46 minutes ago, Luke-OH said:

Pretty interesting.

Very interesting.

[Luke-OH]

32 minutes ago, Il BuonO said:

Really don’t see how that benefits him.

No, but it speaks to the extent of the reluctance to delve out big free agent contracts that a player would be seriously considering something like this in January.

[Bahama O's Fan]

I wonder how this player is determining what he thinks he is worth? Analytics? Agent? Comparison to other players?

[backwardsk]

My money is on this FA's name rhyming with Lake Carietta.  Just a guess.

[Larry18]

1 hour ago, backwardsk said:

My money is on this FA's name rhyming with Lake Carietta.  Just a guess.

I thought it was Martinez when I read the story. However, Jake fits the bill as well.

[MDtransplant757]

1 hour ago, Larry18 said:

I thought it was Martinez when I read the story. However, Jake fits the bill as well.

Either fits. It's going to be a BORAS client. 

[bpilktree67]

Doubt it is Jake.  He is so close to getting that deal in his words.

[interloper]

I think whoever signs Arrieta is going to seriously regret that contract. 

[spiritof66]

On 1/16/2018 at 11:23 AM, OsFanSinceThe80s said:

Yikes who let Dan leave the house dressed up like that.  Looks like he blindly pulled his outfit from the closet.  

"I need a tie for this interview. Anybody here have an extra one?"

"Yeah, but you can't wear this tie with that shirt."

"Oooh, that is pretty bad. But it's not like five years from now anyone's going to be looking at the shirt and tie I'm wearing today."

[esmd]

13 hours ago, Luke-OH said:

Pretty interesting.

I knew it was only a matter of time before the C word came up...