Rob Manfred and Sean Doolittle make a lot of sense in this article on the frozen free-agent market:
NYTimes.com
“I think it’s important to remember that the Major League Baseball Players Association has always wanted a market-based system, and markets change, particularly when the institution around those markets change,” Manfred said. “We’ve had a lot of change in the game. People think about players differently. They analyze players differently. They negotiate differently.”
Players should know this instinctively. Pitchers and batters constantly adjust to each other’s tendencies to survive in the game.
Sean Doolittle basically agrees:
NYTimes.com
“Our biggest mistake, I think, was operating under the assumption that the norms that were always in place were going to continue to be respected,” Doolittle said on Friday. “Like, there was always this kind of unspoken agreement, or model, set up where for your first six years, most guys are underpaid because they don’t really have that much leverage. You’re locked into your minimum salary your first three years, and then when you go through the arbitration process for the next three years, there’s no market — it’s just you and one buyer, so there’s only so much you can do to move your value. But then you make it up on the back end in free agency.”
The problem, of course, was those norms turned out of be a poor deal for teams. The players could have fought to shift money to younger players in the last two CBAs, but failed to do so. In fact, by agreeing to draft slotting and limits on international signings, they took money away from young players.
The next CBA negotiation is going to be fascinating.
from baseballmusings.com http://bit.ly/2Efqhpf
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