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  1. Abomination
    My lineup was a complete bust lol.
  2. Abomination
    Regarding a salary floor, it doesn't have to be so punitive necessarily. They could simply say teams have a floor of, say, 80M, and if they drop below that value the difference is automatically divided evenly among all players on that team's 25 man roster or something. Teams could still run a full group of prospects out there if they felt it was in the team's best interest, but there would be no extra incentive beyond that for being under. There would be a lot of happy prospects too! They could do something similar for a soft cap. Set it at, say, 200M and automatically tax at 50%, but divide the money between all active 25 man roster players in the league. Putting that money into the players hands would make the concept a lot more agreeable for the MLBPA while still meeting the goals of the owners.
  3. Abomination
    My players appear to be... I didn't notice Blackwood being out though.
  4. Abomination
    I don't think it's all that bad. it probably drops the cost of the first two rounds actually. It definitely increases it for the other rounds a lot though. The amount for rounds 10+ might be a little high.
  5. Abomination
    I was thinking the same thing about Im
  6. Abomination
    I'd like to see a complete reworking of the draft. Maybe something like: Each pick gets $2M in the first 2 rounds, $1M in the next 8 rounds, and $500K in all other rounds. No draft pools (since amounts are predetermined), and the prospects sign a contract when they declare for the draft (the rights are simply transferred over to the team who pays the appropriate bonus to the player). The league would perform physicals on the players prior to the draft. International players, with the exception of posted players, are included, and draft picks are tradable. Each player in the minors gets salaries of $25K / year for short season ball, 50K for A ball, 75K for AA ball, and 100K for AAA ball. That would add some money into the development system where it is very critically needed, make the draft more interesting, pay players fairly, and incentivize teams to take the best player available.
  7. Abomination
    They should have cancelled the CBA and done all of this last year when the pandemic was causing a mess anyway. They likely wouldn't have ticked the public off much if games were missed since they could just blamed it on the pandemic.
  8. Abomination
    Or Tiny Tim gets a save.
  9. Abomination
    Think I'll go somewhat stars and scrubs: Smith, Im, Gooch, Lee, Hodges, Percy
  10. Abomination
    Well, it's a prospect list for fantasy sports, not for real life. The two don't always correlate all that well.
  11. Abomination

    NBA Thread

    Abomination replied to admin's topic in Other Sports

    Fred absolutely took the game over!
  12. Abomination
    I'm going with Hovland, Burns, Berger, Gooch, Leishman, and Kim.
  13. Abomination
    MLBTR has a "Guess the end date of the lockout" contest.
  14. Abomination
    Don't forget your golf lineups guys!
  15. Abomination
    I've been saying this all along. The MLBPA is a hot mess. It feels like they're just throwing ideas against the wall and demanding the MLB to figure out how to make them work. The league is facing the strong likelihood of more lockdowns and significantly reduced money coming in, with some owners probably not having the money to actually pay the players this year, and no season is very much in their interests. I feel like the players, for the most part, are the only ones with anything of significance to lose this year, and their leadership knows if they don't decisively "win" the negotiations they're probably out. That means it's also in the best interests of the leadership of the MLBPA for there to be no season, as they can blame the league and have some control over the narrative they tell the players.
  16. Abomination
    Well, I mean Bauer admitted to the vast majority of it already, just that he claimed it was 100% consensual and with permission. There's a ton of text messages suggesting this was at least mostly true. The main argument seems to be when she could and could not legally give that permission and what state she was in during those times.
  17. Abomination
    The main issue is that the union only seems to be representing a very small portion of the players. That said, the players have the ability to do something about that (I assume).
  18. Abomination
    This feels like a great opportunity for Rogers and Sportsnet!
  19. Abomination
    A quick Google search shows it to be more common than expected. I don't think most of them have the baggage Brown did though.
  20. Abomination
    I think there will always be a handful of teams willing to take a shot (Rangers come to mind). He's certainly cost himself a hell of a lot of money though.
  21. Abomination
    I'm pretty sure Votto is on record saying he does NOT want to play for the Jays (nothing to do with the Jays or Canada, but added time commitments it would generate from friends and family). I may be getting him mixed up with someone else though.
  22. Abomination
    I like him better as a reliever I think. The fastball is a problem, and adding a few MPH to it would make that curve deadly.
  23. Abomination
    In general there can be. There has to be a cap to have most teams be competitive and going for it though, which was the discussion. Frankly, it's kind of silly for the players to even care much about the cap imo. It would affect like 4 or 5 teams at the very most (probably less). If the cost of a moderately high floor (maybe 80M?) is a soft cap in the 180M range, the players almost certainly come out way ahead. Maybe players need to start getting paid an individually negotiated percentage of payroll, with the team figure set based on league revenues or something. That could inherently eliminate any need for a cap or floor. Honestly, as players learn to better market themselves, they may soon make more from promotional deals than they make in actual pay anyway.
  24. Abomination
    Yeah, but that's impossible unless you have a salary cap and floor, which the players are dead set against.
  25. Abomination
    I'm not so sure it is posturing. I really don't think the PA has any clue what it is doing, and I think MLB knows that. Combined with the pandemic, I wouldn't be surprised if there were quite a few owners who would be just as happy to sacrifice a likely unprofitable season for a better deal for themselves.
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