MLB players appear to have no sense of humor:
Major League Baseball Players Association executive director Tony Clark scolded the MLB and its teams for making a game out of the arbitration process by awarding a toy championship belt to the team deemed having done the best to keep salaries down.ESPN.com
“That clubs make sport of trying to suppress salaries in a process designed to produce fair settlements shows a blatant lack of respect for our Players, the game, and the arbitration process itself,” Clark said in a statement issued Friday.
Other players weigh in with similar sentiments.
Guess what, the people who inhabit MLB front offices are just as competitive as professional athletes. The GMs job is to produce a winner at as low a cost as possible.
Arbitration is an adversarial process. It is a process the player’s union wanted instituted, because they realized that it would help them earn free agency and raise salaries. Now they are upset because the teams ended up to be very good adversaries, and compete among themselves to see who can be the best?
Please.
I think the toy belt is hilarious. If players don’t like it, then win your arbitration cases!
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