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It was just really hard to commit Aaron Donald money to a guy who was just very good, but also inconsistently that. I was hoping with eating all the guaranteed money we’d get a first for Mack but this is about what I figured. I doubt it’s a fill year down, it’s just a difficult year with limited space and picks.

This is awesome. hilarious that the executive subcommittee voted 8-0 against lol

The players agreed to that deal

Please, we’ve known an international draft was likely for …what 6 years? If the players didn’t agree to a CAPPED budget I’d think it’s reasonable but this system is horrendous. The players are being dumb, and the reporters are lapping it up due to their own experiences in a shittier system.

It’s amazing how much fake cause and effect stuff gets taken as gospel and regurgitated in these discussions.

Good for the players like Ortiz. Use your clout to make sure the academy’s have a softer landing from the unwinding of this horrendous system that allowed them to profit on the backs of children. Won’t somebody please think of the buscones?

Yeah drafts are good, because they are fun. Wouldnt following international markets be more fun if we knew of these guys before a draft and then saw who are team picked, instead of getting a list of the top thirty players in January that all already have handshake agreements in place with the teams? Of course it would. We should also ban trades. Just make a really miserable sport to follow.

I really am not sure how you could argue the draft would kill bonuses more than the last one. Top 30 players it will be very similar, the rest were already in the meat grinder.

I'm not gonna lie, I kinda agree. It will be hard to argue to hold out for more considering the percent raises so many would get and what is likely to be a frothy market to follow the end of the lockout. BUT the introduction of an INTL draft likely just needs to be executed through. Players already gave up the goose in terms of Compensation to that group of players with the hard cap budget, but freedom of movement now would be taken away. That said, hard to give up all that for some 16 year olds and I think they all know this system sucks.

This seems reasonable. I’m sure harsher penalties. Hope this wraps it up.

Today might be the last day to get a full season of baseball in and nobody cares and is talking about the nfl and it's the offseason for that sport.

I actually think it's a no brainer deal for where they are and what the QB situation is in this draft. Their team is young and talented but you don't stay young and talented for long so they would be on the road to rebuild without any sort of QB sooner or later.

Best of luck to Codi

looks like the idea that seahawks would trade Wilson wasn't so 'stoopid' after all.

I guess I'm just less convinced then ever that correlates to winning. I kinda want to give the yanks enough rope to hang themselves. I'd rather dodgers go gangbusters in free agency then their spending on like 6 GMs within their front office at one point. That disparity is a lot harder to overcome for the white sox, but likely diminishing returns since the Rays can keep up. If smaller owners pushed for a front office spending cap, likely a much bigger wedge in the disparity of outcomes.

Have fun dude

You should ask the players whether they will offer non-guaranteed contracts on the table in exchange for higher share of revenue since it doesn't matter.

MLB contracts are guaranteed and their benefits are much more generous than NFLs.

That's the same thing though.

Eh, don't mess with the NFL's golden goose and expect to get off lightly, Cal.

I mean, exactly. You weren't re-signing your stars at a cbt of $210M, Oakland Athletics. It won't change if you raise the minimum CBT to 225 or 230.

He makes it look so easy they don't recognize the adjustment. If he could just adjust his health.

Eh. Isn't the bigger problem that the MLB has the worst marketing engine of any of the major sports? Some of that is structural, there are only 16 games in football and it's all high drama. But before we try to re-do everything, maybe the MLB could try to make Mike Trout a household name? What are they doing to promote Juan Soto? They have more exciting young talent than in recent memory don't do anything to make people want to watch. Instead manfred blamed Trout for being boring.

Yeah. Odds are I jump back into place where I was at end of last season. But maybe not, I was drawing blanks on who was even in our bullpen last week. I coulnd't remember any free agents until I looked it up. who knows what happens when they stop giving obssessives things to be entertained by. I think Baseball may be run by the obssessives more than most leagues right now. Play around with them at your peril