Current Events > Minor League baseball players achieve significant pay increases after unionizing

(+) Yeah! (+)

https://twitter.com/JeffPassan/status/1641259735910346752

Neat

W but still too low

Crazy that some guys can be in the minors for close to a decade or more.

The MLB union is actually a little too strong. Don't get me wrong Providing a high minimum salary is good, what's not good is how the union has blocked salary caps for the benefit of big market teams. That's coming from a Dodgers fan who realizes that spending by teams like mine is out of control.

ForsakenHermit posted...

Providing a high minimum salary is good, what's not good is how the union has blocked salary caps for the benefit of big market teams.

Salary caps are about keeping labor costs down, not parity. One of the biggest spending teams in baseball at the moment is the San Diego Padres, hardly a big market team. Every owner can afford to spend like they do; they chose not to.

radioactive take: Implement promotion and relegation.

Antifar posted...

Salary caps are about keeping labor costs down, not parity. One of the biggest spending teams in baseball at the moment is the San Diego Padres, hardly a big market team. Every owner can afford to spend like they do; they chose not to.

a lot of owners, sure, but there's no way in hell a team like Oakland, Tampa or Cleveland can run 200M+ payrolls year after year

They now makes about as much salary as a Gamestop employee.

Delirious_Beard posted...

a lot of owners, sure, but there's no way in hell a team like Oakland, Tampa or Cleveland can run 200M+ payrolls year after year

They'd make every dollar back and more in increased revenue.

finally, my Montgomery Biscuits are getting the bag

Antifar posted...

They'd make every dollar back and more in increased revenue.

yeah you have no idea what you're talking about

not good enough.

there is 100% no way you can possibly justify the salaries given to pros when you are literally starving these players.

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sure

the idea of spending more to create a better product to attract more fans and thus more revenue makes sense for viable markets, but not the ones i mentioned, because they have not seen significant attendance increases despite putting a winning product on the field for most of the last decade. spending more on team payroll for those organizations would not come with increased revenue

https://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/breaking/ct-mlb-minor-league-cba-20230331-k2f6ixfvbrbcfdaqaidpaghfb4-story.html

Good.

Antifar posted...

Salary caps are about keeping labor costs down, not parity. One of the biggest spending teams in baseball at the moment is the San Diego Padres, hardly a big market team. Every owner can afford to spend like they do; they chose not to.

This. Fuck salary caps.

It's about time, especially after Covid nuked tons of minor league teams out of existence.

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huh? attendance numbers are public

https://www.espn.com/mlb/attendance/_/year/2022

as are most revenue figures, the lowest revenue teams generate 200 million fewer than the top dogs

https://www.totalsportal.com/list/mlb-teams-with-highest-revenue/

don't get me wrong the owners are still by large greedy shitheads. the real problem with the economics of baseball is largely player compensation. basically players make jack shit their first 3 or 4 years in the majors, even if they play like superstars. this has basically led to a lot of teams investing enormously in developing young players because having young stars making pennies compared to their worth is the most valuable commodity around. paying market value for players once they reach free agency is basically seen as a loss by most teams, which is beyond fucked up