Bryce Harper
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@samguenther1987_PSN you do know baseball has had strikes as well right?
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@LHUBison58_XBL He's probably afraid of what most people are that are fans of NY, LA, etc. With a cap you actually need to have smart people making decisions in order to win. You can't just throw 200 million dollars at it. Doesn't take a whole lot of knowledge to be successful with a 250 million dollar budget.
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It's wild that while doing the 'Sabathia' Mini-Seasons, Harp came up to bat on one of the teams!
I was expecting him to park one on us, for me making this thread, so I pitched carefully! -
@olemissnole810_XBL said in Bryce Harper:
I'm personally for both a floor and a salary cap since I think it would help parity.
A salary floor means Braxton Garrett and Anthony Bender are making $8 million a year while the cost of hot dogs and parking triple. And the team is still going nowhere.
Is that "parity" what's best for baseball?
Or would it be better for MLB to force Sherman to sell to an owner willing to invest in the team?
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@LHUBison58_XBL said in Bryce Harper:
I’m a pirates fan, yes I know our owner is cheap, yes I agree with a lot of those points. However, there is zero chance of Pittsburgh consistently being able to field a winning team in this system. Maybe that’s cool if you are on one of the coasts but for the rest of us all hope is typically gone by the 4th of July. Again, why are you afraid of a salary cap? Seems like you have nothing to be afraid of if you’re a big market team fan. Or is the fear of losing the inherent advantages that you exploit that great?
Isn't it fair to say the reason Pittsburgh is having difficulty competing is their lack of developing the players in their own system? They had some pretty good pitchers recently come up and not performed. Look at Cole, Tallon, Glasnow, traded for Musgrove. Liriano performed well. They traded Baz. The same issue on offense. They drafted a bunch of players who just never panned out.
They were a playoff team in 2014 and 2015 under Clint Hurdle, and he was often criticized in Pittsburgh for being too rough. I think it's also fair to say Bob Nutting treats the pirates as a business, as long as he is making money its ok for him.
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@samguenther1987_PSN said in Bryce Harper:
Harper well not being completely right (probably shouldn't have yelled at Manfred)
Harper and other players are angry that Manfred wants to implement a salary cap, so of course the players are against that. Manfred should have known he wouldn't be welcome in a MLB teams clubhouse.
Right or wrong here may not matter. The ownership group may in-fact lock the players out before a new negotiation ever happens. Why have a salary cap when you already have a luxury tax threshold and revenue sharing? MLB revenue for 2024 hit a record of 12.1 billion(see Forbes.com). Let's hold the teams receiving the bulk share accountable to put it back into their payroll.
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@squishiesgirl_MLBTS yep and the last one was 30 years ago; only lockouts since
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@yankblan_PSN yeah just found it odd to use a NHL reference as context
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I don't know how it would possibly work but I would love to see the revenue sharing structure go towards teams trying to keep homegrown players.
Skenes is the obvious example. Find ways to keep these guys where they started instead of going to Dodgers/Yankees/Mets etc
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@Wilbs715_XBL I agree with you. I’m not saying the cap system will make every team a winner, nor should it. It’s about putting all teams in a collective even playing field in terms of economics. The Pirates have made terrible development of hitters, and haven’t had a singular Latin American success story in nearly a decade. That is
on them and their program. At the same time they have no margin for error, they can’t spend their way out of a mistake like the Coastal teams can.
I recognize and admit that. In the NFL you have the Browns. They get in their own way more often than not. But they always have hope. Pittsburgh, and many other teams, have zero hope by the 4th of July. -
@Wilbs715_XBL said in Bryce Harper:
@samguenther1987_PSN said in Bryce Harper:
Harper well not being completely right (probably shouldn't have yelled at Manfred)
Harper and other players are angry that Manfred wants to implement a salary cap, so of course the players are against that. Manfred should have known he wouldn't be welcome in a MLB teams clubhouse.
Right or wrong here may not matter. The ownership group may in-fact lock the players out before a new negotiation ever happens. Why have a salary cap when you already have a luxury tax threshold and revenue sharing? MLB revenue for 2024 hit a record of 12.1 billion(see Forbes.com). Let's hold the teams receiving the bulk share accountable to put it back into their payroll.
Because the luxury tax isn't working, and for the upteenth dozenth time, it isn't merely a salary cap but also a salary floor that will FORCE owners to pay for player talent to keep their teams competitive. That's what the owners want and while I'm not representing the owners in any way, shape, or form, the players are being their typical hostile selves to what I think this time is inevitable.
MLB will play with a salary cap and floor after the end of the 2026 season. Precisely how many current MLB players will choose to play in that system and when the next season starts are the ONLY open questions.
The details of that conclusion have already been provided in this thread. It's all there for people to read for themselves. Manfred is actually trying hard to do the players a big, fat favor. He isn't representing merely the owners in this, but as much the players. He is starting this communication now (two years ahead of time) precisely to impress on the players how different this lockout is going to be.
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Keep in mind Manfred works for the owners. He would not be talking about this if they didn’t want him to do so.
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Also keep in mind that Boras has an overwhelming presence in the MLBPA. He has rigidly fought against any system, including the current luxury tax model because he doesn’t want to hurt “his clients”. Which is good from his client’s perspective, but hurts the other 85% of players in the league.
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To be fair to the Pittsburgh situation:
If:
Horwitz didnt get hurt and instead improves on 2024
Reynolds doesnt suck [censored] this year
Bart performs like he did in 2024Then:
Bubba Chandler is in the majors
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I’m speaking selfishly here, but I’ve suffered through 33 years of bad baseball with a 4 year blip in the middle. I’ll gladly watch no baseball to see the economics of the game fixed and brought to par with the other three major sports leagues in America.
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It really does suck that two of the best ball parks in the majors are in Pittsburgh and Denver, which are good sports towns, but have the cheapest owners
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@SaveFarris_PSN said in Bryce Harper:
@olemissnole810_XBL said in Bryce Harper:
I'm personally for both a floor and a salary cap since I think it would help parity.
A salary floor means Braxton Garrett and Anthony Bender are making $8 million a year while the cost of hot dogs and parking triple. And the team is still going nowhere.
Is that "parity" what's best for baseball?
Or would it be better for MLB to force Sherman to sell to an owner willing to invest in the team?
I think you would have to start with the floor to see how the teams react. If you decide to overpay a Bender or Garrett rather than bring in a solid MLB player, then you would probably have to force an ownership change. This year the only FA was the 5mil they gave to Quantrill. That's not an attempt to win. It's just filling the roster.
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Lot's of people tossing around this concept of "force an ownership change." Folks, unless the owner in question violates a written rule of the league, one that explicitly states that violation may result in the league taking over the team to sell, the owner is a courtroom away from having MLB told to pound sand.
Absent the clearly worded rule, there is a word for what is being tossed around. It is called theft of private property! There are laws against that. A salary floor with a specified penalty for failing to meet it is the only way MLB could take a team away from an owner because he chooses to keep his payroll low.
The players are salaried employees working on a service contract. The owners actually own the teams. The league is formed by the owners to enforce agreed upon rules of the game and game structures. Seems there are a great many players who need to better understand that.
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@olemissnole810_XBL said in Bryce Harper:
This year the only FA was the 5mil they gave to Quantrill. That's not an attempt to win. It's just filling the roster.
So you admit that cheapo owners are ALREADY "filling out rosters" and not attempting to win.
Thanks for agreeing!
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@PriorFir4383355_XBL said in Bryce Harper:
Lot's of people tossing around this concept of "force an ownership change." Folks, unless the owner in question violates a written rule of the league, one that explicitly states that violation may result in the league taking over the team to sell, the owner is a courtroom away from having MLB told to pound sand.
That's why MLB needs to write a rule. Or have a Landis-level Commissioner with the power to enforce it unilaterally. (Obviously less likely but still technically doable.)
