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Archive for December, 2016

Dodgers Continue to Tip Payroll Scales as Yankees Look to Stay Trim

Posted in Business and Finance, MLB, Yankees on December 17, 2016 | 3 Comments »

The Dodgers opened up their wallets again this winter, but no one should be surprised. According to final payroll data reported by major league baseball, Los Angeles has retained its ranking as the game’s biggest spender for the third consecutive season. 2016 Final Payrolls Note: Final payrolls represent actual amounts spent (salaries, benefits, earned bonuses […]

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Should Baseball Union Be Happy With the Status Quo?

Posted in Baseball, Business and Finance, CBA, MLB, Yankees on December 3, 2016 | 4 Comments »

Most in the baseball media have declared management as the winner in the sport’s latest round of labor negotiations. Over the last two days, I’ve portrayed the outcome as a split decision by illustrating how the new CBA will do little to change the prevailing trends in the game. But, that begs the question: is […]

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Baseball Salaries Should Be Unrestrained by New CBA as Luxury Tax System Is Only a Paper Tiger

Posted in Baseball on December 2, 2016 | 3 Comments »

Was the CBA process hijacked from the players? Are payrolls likely to stagnate? And, is the deal so one-sided that the seeds of future discord have already been sewn? All of these assessments are based on the premise that the new CBA will discourage spending, but is that true? As illustrated yesterday, the additional penalties imposed […]

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International Amateurs Thrown Overboard as MLBPA, Owners Shuffle CBA Chairs

Posted in CBA, MLB on December 1, 2016 | 1 Comment »

Major league baseball owners and players continued their impressive streak of labor peace by tentatively agreeing to a new five-year collective bargaining agreement. Although the final agreement has not been drafted, not to mention ratified, enough details have emerged to allow for an early analysis. So far, the conventional wisdom is the owners were the […]

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