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Solving Baseball’s Free Agency Freeze Requires Addressing a Crisis of Competition

Posted in Baseball, tagged , , , , on February 2, 2019 | 5 Comments »

For the second straight winter, baseball’s hot stove has run cold. With the free agent market in a deep freeze, unthawed by the superstar talent of Bryce Harper and Manny Machado, and the game’s former big spenders conspicuous by their inactivity, whispers about pending labor strife have grown louder. Some have even mentioned the “C” […]

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Breaking Down MLB Payroll and Revenue Data (in Tweet Form)

Posted in Baseball, tagged , , , , , , , , , on January 11, 2019 | Leave a Comment »

AP has released MLB’s official salary data for 2018, and in many stories there is some conflicting data, particularly with regard to the percentage of revenue allocated to salaries. Following are some clarification and interpretation. You will often see Scott Boras quoted with a claim that players get a mid-40% share, but it seems like […]

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All Isn’t Grand(al) for MLB Free Agents as Crisis of Competition Weighs on the Market

Posted in Baseball, tagged , , , , , , , on January 10, 2019 | Leave a Comment »

Major League Baseball may be in the midst of a free agency paradigm shift, but Yasmani Grandal’s contract is not the tipping point. After the 30-year old catcher signed a one-year deal, instead of the multi-year deal he expected, many have wondered whether this will be the last straw that breaks the back of baseball’s […]

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The ABCs of Baseball’s Next CBA

Posted in Baseball, Business and Finance, MLB, NFL, tagged on March 4, 2011 | 3 Comments »

(In addition to appearing at The Captain’s Blog, this post is also being syndicated at TheYankeeAnalysts.) Over the past two days, the NFL and its players association have been engaged in a high stakes game of chicken. Will the league lock the players out? Will the union decertify first and force the fate of a new […]

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