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Tuesday, April 06, 2010
MLBPA: looking for evidence of wrongdoing
I’m almost always on the side of the players. But this is silly:
Agents for players, without going into specifics, have claimed they received multiple similar offers for free-agent clients and have pushed the union to contest the practice.
Ok, suppose that there’s a measure that everyone likes. I dunno, let’s call it… WAR. And let’s say that it’s constructed by researchers that both sides respect, say Tango, Rally, and Fangraphs. And say that there’s a site that lists the dollar values, like a Beckett’s price guide or NYSE. Then, teams give out offers that are consistent to what they read. Well, this is a GOOD thing isn’t it? There’s no collusion, there’s no acting in concert. There’s an understanding that, hey, maybe Tango and Rally and Fangraphs know their sh!t.
I mean, Longoria, JJ Hardy, etc, those are much more believable than teams realizing that Jermaine Dye’s poor fielding is actually very costly. But, this is the MLBPA… they care about the veterans almost to the exclusion of the young players.