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Wednesday, September 22, 2010
More on the bat glove: but where’s the MLBPA in all this?
Reading Passan, the best investigative sports reporter around, I’m struck by how the story was about MLB, the current bat manufactureres, the proposed bat helper, but… no MLBPA.
Baseball spends more than $500,000 a year to track bat breakage, said Dan Halem, the league’s point-man on the issue, and has issued fines and other warnings to companies whose bats have exploded the most.
“We’ll spend as much money as necessary to fix this,” Halem said.
It’s all nice that the league is worried about workplace safety, but shouldn’t the players be more worried? Well, I know they should, but they aren’t. Why is that? They don’t care to do anything about PED (until dragged against their will), balls thrown to heads, shards of bat in chests, runners bulldozing unprotected catchers, sliding into 2B with no chance of touching 2B. Even benign things like delay of game. Just up and down the line from the most to least severe, players don’t care at all. Yes, someone has to die for them to take action. Actually, even then, I’m not sure they would. MLB cares more.
It’s an odd group of millionaires. They even have a lower minimum salary than NHL players, even though they have more than double the revenue, and similar number of players. They don’t even take care of their own little guy financially, to the extent that other leagues do. Arbitration is heavily favored to management, as is the Type A/B causing yet another roadblock. Hard to believe the players are disproportionately protecting the rights of the one player they hate the most (ARod). They like his ascension, and will curse him as they try to climb that same slippery hill, with almost no chance for that level of success.
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