Good, hopefully this becomes a trend and helps small & middle market teams stay competitive when agents like Boras can't hold teams hostage and big pocket owners aren't just willing to outbid everyone and raise the already ridiculous salaries of players. There needs to be a pay scale and salary cap in baseball, its time.
How is it punishing them? They will still make a lot of money. Do you see NBA & NFL players complaining? It’s overdue, agents like Boras are ruining the game because we as fans are the ones that end up suffering, we ultimately end up paying literally especially small market teams.
Limiting them or giving them a reality check? Obviously no one feels JD is worth $200M dollars or the other big name guys.
Singling out two players at the top hardly addresses all of the players in the league. The higher they go, the higher the marginal players go.
Former D-back Tony Clark, head of the MLB Players Association says MLB is threatening the integrity of the game with its slow pace of off-season free agent signings.
http://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/...says-teams-signing-free-agents-in-race-bottom
'Sorry, Tony, but I have to agree that salaries being paid to players are out of hand. Evidently the two sides are incapable of sitting down and working it out.
Former D-back J.D. Martinez is "fed up" with the Red Sox and could sit out the beginning of the season.
https://sports.yahoo.com/j-d-martinez-fed-red-140636019.html
Hey, J.D., c'mon back to Phoenix at a fair price. We'll sign you in a heartbeat. Even if Hendrick does have to sell his baseball card collection.
Ya, even the Yankees aren’t willing to have a bunch of contracts like that. We’re seeing right now how that can kill a team for years.
