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Tuesday, July 14, 2009
Collusion in MLB?
Don’t make me laugh:
“I think the clubs uniformly felt they were taking the momentum of a national event — that being the economy — and suggesting that that was going to have an impact on their revenues,” agent Scott Boras said. “I think they were attempting to leverage that into a belief structure that the value of players has gone down because there’s a perception that baseball will suffer because of the economy. After experiencing the biggest blow of the economy in the fall of 2008, we know that baseball has stood its ground and still has an extraordinary revenue base.”
That’s alot of generalities without having any specific evidence. That makes his opinion worthless. I would love to see this report:
“The investigation is ongoing but not complete because of things to review,” Weiner said Monday before the All-Star Home Run Derby. “We’ve had some discussions with the commissioner’s office. I’ll know more I think by the end of the month.”
Otherwise, to me, it was simply a combination of some smart teams going to a dollar-per-WAR approach I’ve been advocating for a few years (along with a cost value for lost draft picks), along with the economy hitting all businesses, even MLB. I think Fangraphs advancing this to a wide audience will have a decent impact on making everyone realize the value of all players.
The MLBPA agreed to a system with no guarantees, and their plan was predicated on the hope that owners would act with a gun to their heads. Those days are virtually over.
I also believe that MLB being proactive in going after the saberists, while MLBPA going after none of them (unless someone wants to correct me) is another issue. Teams understand the valuation of players far better than the MLBPA does. And the agents want to solve this by crying collusion?
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