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What’s also funny is why wouldn’t the owners just pay their employees? A fund only makes sense if it’s coming from a 3rd party and not the employer.

Oh look, the owners are creating a fund for impacted employees. The PR battle wages on why we fans stay losing!

Yup, smart PR move, but this really doesn’t help those impacted all that much. If there are 1,000 people in need of assistance, this is basically $1k/person. Nice gesture but not going to move the needle a ton.

Can’t wait to hear what people think about The Batman. I really liked it but don’t think it will be for everybody.

My understanding is missing April games doesn’t cost the owners TV money, but it will once the calendar hits May. As for the players, they will eventually break once they realize the owners will not make them whole for a shortened season and they start to run out of reserves. Give it a month and I think both sides get serious, but for now just us fans suffer.

I’ll keep saying it, but we’re fucked with Manfred as commissioner. He’ll never get the small market owners to agree with the large market owners, which means he’ll never have a serious offer to present to the players. It’s going to take a month of lost games for one side to concede IMO.

You realize how operating leverage works right?

Overextended?

Yeah I don’t want to know what it would take.

@ChiSox59 - Don’t be laughing bud, Sheets for Bieber is coming!

Shane Bieber’s father starting following ChiSoxMike and Sox on 35th…?

They still owe Cano $48M over the next two years and have a few guys like JD Davis & Dom Smith who can rotate through there. I’d be pretty surprised if they signed a $20M AAV OF, but you never know with Cohen at helm.

The Mets really don’t need another OF after signing Marte & Canha.

Best and final is only relevant in an open bidding process where on the “final” offers will be accepted. When each party needs the other, there is no such thing until a deal is reached.

I fully expect one of Burger or Sheets is moved for a rental starting pitcher.

Let’s be honest, Manfred’s entire strategy was let’s wait out the union until they break. He will continue to cry poor on behalf of the owners and will make minimal concessions while they continue to “negotiate” over the coming the weeks. Unless the players feel the pain of no paychecks and fold, it’s going to take a few more weeks before the owners get serious and we fans are the ones who will suffer. The complete lack of caring for their customer base is disgusting.

100% agree.

Are you actually against the principals of WAR?

I’m honestly content with my pay even if I don’t think it’s 100% equitable, so while I’m not looking elsewhere at the moment the opportunities I’ve received due to promotions do provide flexibility. From my perspective, being paid a little bit less than what’s fair is fine if there is a long-term benefit to the experience being gained.

We have a performance management system and the top performers receive no direct benefit in terms salary or bonus over their peers who simply meet expectations. As such, people with similar jobs / responsibility receive similar financial benefits regardless of performance and are more or less paid at a market-based rate. Do people make more as they move up the corporate ladder and take on more responsibility? Of course they do, but that’s how any org structure is going to work. I’m really struggling to understand your point here. Should lower level Walmart & Amazon employees receive a wage that allows for a reasonable standard of living? Of course they should, but what the fuck does that have to do with major league baseball players earning $600k or more at minimum? You’re so anti-ownership that you’ve somehow convinced yourself that being paid for performance is a bad thing. Should Dylan Cease get paid less than Reynaldo Lopez? How is that a good thing?

New to the pay grade and salary increases are capped when promoted, so you usually start below the median unless you come from the outside. They do give merit increases at higher rates if you’re below the median salary, but that really has nothing to do with actual performance but rather experience. Ultimately at my company high performance is rewarded with faster promotion opportunities and the occasional spot bonus. But it never feels good when you know you’re outperforming a specific peer but realize he’s making more than you.

I have no idea how you’re linking this to wage suppression. What were the owners proposing to pay per win and how does that compare to the current arbitration system? And as a top performer at my company I get paid less than the median for my pay grade, so yes I’d much rather prefer a compensation system that rewards actual performance than years of experience.

Again, you have no idea how the real world works if you actually think an objective, data driven performance management system is somehow worse than the subjective bullshit most of us have to deal with in our professions.

Your complete lack of reality when it comes to labor relations. Please explain to me how Fangraphs is being used to devalue and commodity players.

???…you crack me up Parkman