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Baseball Primer Newsblog — The Best News Links from the Baseball Newsstand Friday, April 16, 2021MLB salary down 4.8% in 2 years; top 100 earn half
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Posted: April 16, 2021 at 03:19 PM | 19 comment(s)
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1. Mayor Blomberg Posted: April 16, 2021 at 07:11 PM (#6013897)The numbers are skewed somewhat by the unique circumstances of the surprisingly influential Players Whose Names Start with Odor caucus.
IMO the union should be pushing for a $1 mil minimum salary so each teams floor would then be $26 mil. Maybe push for $1.5 to start, then come down to $1 mil if needed. Make it so there isn't as big an incentive to keep rookies around vs vets so much. That would have a far, far bigger impact on players than anything else.
Instead, they will get a post-game shrimp platter and more free tickets for their family.
I don't think that raising the minimum will result in many roster decisions in favor of veterans. What they should do is take a big piece of the common funds that currently get paid out to the teams, and instead put it into a pot for veteran players. If the Pirates want to pay $3 million for five bench players they can do that, but they might see things differently if they paying another $3 million to subsidize veteran bench players who are playing against them.
This is a pretty important sentence:
In addition, the average likely was lowered slightly by the expansion of active rosters to 26, which probably caused teams to add 30 players making near the $570,500 minimum.
If you assume the 30 new players are all making the minimum, that accounts for more than half the decline in average salary from 2019. (2.8% of the 4.8% decline)
The average salary is not a great way to track the trend given the guaranteed multi-year salaries. If (WAG) 80% of total payroll** carries over from one year to the next, it's probably better to track the percentage of gains/losses relative to what could have been lost. Extensions keep that from being a perfectly clean number but somebody can come up with something sensible for handling those.
** between big contracts, arb contracts and a typical number of min salary players.
Perhaps non-tendered did ok but lots of guys ended up with 1/10 when they might have gotten 3/24 in prior years. MLB is moving to one year deals (albeit with higher pay), for everyone but the Lindors of the world. This offseason will see more of the same. That can’t be good for players. The combination of non-tenders and super short deals is not where the union should want things to be headed.
It makes more economic sense because after the top 100 guys, players tend to be fungible or under team control.
I think you have to be careful with the age thing. 28 probably works, but despite the glut of young phenoms coming up most players don't find their way on MLB rosters until 22 or later. If players are going to literally spend more time in the minors than on the major league roster you've just convinced every team in baseball to kill their player development budget.
But MLB has already contracted the minor leagues drastically. So isnt this just them anticipating your argument and have already done the math and responded in a way that makes sense.
To a degree, but people have been arguing for quality of life improvements to the minor leagues forever. Better food, counseling for nutrition, better training facilities. I've also learned never to underestimate the ability of MLB owners to find a penny to pinch.
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