I was very glad to see the vote of the owners to approve the new collective bargaining agreement produced a dissenting vote:
The one nay vote came from Tampa Bay owner Stuart Sternberg, who texted me: “Basically nothing was done to close the huge gap in access to talent. A new approach in the Rule 4 (June) draft would have proved helpful.”
The Rays believe the draft order should be determined by more than just a team’s record. Six times in past eight drafts, AL East powerhouse Boston drafted before its divisional stepchild Tampa Bay.
Bud Selig didn’t like dissent, and would try to get unanimous support from the owners when the group needed to push forward something new. I like this, however. There are other ideas that get squashed, and it’s good to have a public debate. Maybe the draft isn’t as fair as it could be, and putting out ideas allows lots of people, fans, players, front offices, to debate and improve those ideas. Bob Manfred appears to be much more open to putting ideas into the public realm for debate. Now he’s giving the owners a chance to do so, too.
from baseballmusings.com http://ift.tt/2hvad8h
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