When will fans understand that hell will freeze over before the union agrees to a salary cap. They’ll go on strike before they’ll ever play with a cap. It’s the hill they’ll die on before any other issue.
Joe, Back in the 1997 negotiations for the new CBA, the owners did want a salary cap. I agree that times have changed, and the owners don’t want to open the books. But they’d do that before the players would agree to a cap.
Jean, the MLBPA offered in the 2021-2022 CBA negotiations to institute a salary cap if the owners would open their books so they could set one based on true revenue, one that would put the cap in the 80th percentile of team payrolls at the time with an opportunity for teams to go over that cap only by resigning their own players. The owners said no. Twice.
websoulsurfer, Could you provide some documentation to that claim?
In the book “The Game”, by Jon Pessah, he documented the players vehemence to a cap. It was a total deal breaker in the 1997 CBA negotiations. And just last year Tony Clark was quoted as saying the players would never accept a salary cap.
The mistake the MLBPA made was agreeing to a flexible cap with penalties, but not demanding a flexible floor with penalties. Financial penalties are the only thing that will force the bottom teams to spend, which would have benefited the players.
Trading for CHC-Nico Hoerner would make sense for ATL, if giving up pitching prospects. Having Arcia is a decent floor that could allow Nico to come back at his own pace and transition to SS, while giving the offense more contact skills (career K-rate: 12%) at the lower-end of the lineup. I’d love to see him take Bob Horner’s #5, but someone else made it his own (tear).
lol Hoerner is a 4 WAR player with two, team friendly years ahead of him. If the Cubs were going to trade Nico for prospects it would take whole heck of a lot more than Waldrup
Then I wouldn’t trade for him. Most of that WAR is made up from defense, which is Arcia’s best trait too. Cubs have no young pitching in the pipeline. It would free up a place for Shaw to play, but since GM Drasco says no, good luck trading him elsewhere.
I strongly doubt the Cubs trade Hoerner. I know Shaw looks great and all but he only has 30 something games in AAA and has hardly played second base in the minors.
Plus, Hoyer, I believe, really respects Nico’s skill set, elite defense, contact skills and base running.
I think Hoyer also realizes that if the a cubs do not make the playoffs this year then he is not going to be extended/rehired. The rumors that Bellinger and Hoerner are available seem to be more writer speculation/anyone can be traded for the right package than logical.
Wrigley last season played astronomically bad for hitters, looking at Bellinger, Suzuki, Hoerner, Busch, PCA and Paredes home/away splits (OPS around 200 points worse on the road) leads me to believe that the offense is in better shape than the pitching.
When will fans understand that hell will freeze over before the union agrees to a salary cap. They’ll go on strike before they’ll ever play with a cap. It’s the hill they’ll die on before any other issue.
Unfortunately, you are correct.
Considering it would require the owners opening up their books, I don’t think they really want one either.
Joe, Back in the 1997 negotiations for the new CBA, the owners did want a salary cap. I agree that times have changed, and the owners don’t want to open the books. But they’d do that before the players would agree to a cap.
Jean, the MLBPA offered in the 2021-2022 CBA negotiations to institute a salary cap if the owners would open their books so they could set one based on true revenue, one that would put the cap in the 80th percentile of team payrolls at the time with an opportunity for teams to go over that cap only by resigning their own players. The owners said no. Twice.
websoulsurfer, Could you provide some documentation to that claim?
In the book “The Game”, by Jon Pessah, he documented the players vehemence to a cap. It was a total deal breaker in the 1997 CBA negotiations. And just last year Tony Clark was quoted as saying the players would never accept a salary cap.
The mistake the MLBPA made was agreeing to a flexible cap with penalties, but not demanding a flexible floor with penalties. Financial penalties are the only thing that will force the bottom teams to spend, which would have benefited the players.
Trading for CHC-Nico Hoerner would make sense for ATL, if giving up pitching prospects. Having Arcia is a decent floor that could allow Nico to come back at his own pace and transition to SS, while giving the offense more contact skills (career K-rate: 12%) at the lower-end of the lineup. I’d love to see him take Bob Horner’s #5, but someone else made it his own (tear).
I would do Waldrup for Hoerner straight up, but no more.
I’d throw a Nacho or two.
Nit a Nacho Alvarez, I would hope. Perhaps a chorizo nacho?
lol Hoerner is a 4 WAR player with two, team friendly years ahead of him. If the Cubs were going to trade Nico for prospects it would take whole heck of a lot more than Waldrup
Then I wouldn’t trade for him. Most of that WAR is made up from defense, which is Arcia’s best trait too. Cubs have no young pitching in the pipeline. It would free up a place for Shaw to play, but since GM Drasco says no, good luck trading him elsewhere.
I strongly doubt the Cubs trade Hoerner. I know Shaw looks great and all but he only has 30 something games in AAA and has hardly played second base in the minors.
Plus, Hoyer, I believe, really respects Nico’s skill set, elite defense, contact skills and base running.
I think Hoyer also realizes that if the a cubs do not make the playoffs this year then he is not going to be extended/rehired. The rumors that Bellinger and Hoerner are available seem to be more writer speculation/anyone can be traded for the right package than logical.
Wrigley last season played astronomically bad for hitters, looking at Bellinger, Suzuki, Hoerner, Busch, PCA and Paredes home/away splits (OPS around 200 points worse on the road) leads me to believe that the offense is in better shape than the pitching.
Who is Hennimore?
It’s British thing I think, like sketch comedy?
The Tigers’ only hope is to send Superfife to Japan……
I was just informed…..
The Tigers DON’T HAVE any money.
Baez lives in the Miami area.
Would he have any redemptive value as a community laison with Miami?