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    1. Dan Szymborski‏Verified account @DSzymborski 2 Dec 2019

      What you're seeing in the non-tenders is just the inevitable result of teams increasingly seeing $/WAR as a curve rather than a line, something that should always have been the case but empirically wasn't for the first 40 years or so of free agency.

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    2. Dan Szymborski‏Verified account @DSzymborski 2 Dec 2019

      Teams are willing to pay very little for that first win from each player. If you think that teams see league-average players as worth $16 million a year, you're not current in-tune with how front offices see value.

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    3. Dan Szymborski‏Verified account @DSzymborski 2 Dec 2019

      For a long time, teams literally bought into the Video Game AI Trade Theorem, which states that you can just get a bunch of one-win players instead of a four-win player.

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    4. Dan Szymborski‏Verified account @DSzymborski 2 Dec 2019

      Which, as I talked about endlessly, creates a very interesting situation for the MLBPA. There's no magic bullet to force teams to employ 0.5-win veterans, the Adam Jones types, and pay them handsomely.

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      Dan Szymborski‏Verified account @DSzymborski 2 Dec 2019

      I've maintained -- and still do -- that the MLBPA will *never* be able to grow the pot based on below-averageish veterans again. Growing the player's share will have to focus on years in which players are currently underpaid.

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        2. Dan Szymborski‏Verified account @DSzymborski 2 Dec 2019

          And the question is: how determined will a 35-year-old veteran, who feels screwed by analytics be to strike for the 21-year-old on the 40-man roster for the first time and making the ~$45K optional assignment minimum for a first timer?

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        3. Dan Szymborski‏Verified account @DSzymborski 2 Dec 2019

          To put it in the cruelest way possible, much of baseball's salary growth historically has come from old school front offices in 70s-90s being really awful at predicting future player value.

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        4. Dan Szymborski‏Verified account @DSzymborski 2 Dec 2019

          This is no longer the case. Even poorly run teams don't really think players enter their primes at 31 or that HR/RBI uber alles. Which means that the MLBPA has to fight for their revenue pot in different ways.

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        5. Dan Szymborski‏Verified account @DSzymborski 2 Dec 2019

          Remember, as seen in Helyar's extensively sourced Lords of the Realm, those 80s baseball people didn't collude because they were some Machiavellian geniuses, but because Ueberroth basically browbeat them by shaming them for their incompetence.

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        6. Dan Szymborski‏Verified account @DSzymborski 2 Dec 2019

          You know how hard I am on the Rockies? This would certainly be a top 10 front office in 1989, possibly a top 5.

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        2. Phil Dussault‏ @PhilDussault27 2 Dec 2019
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          and MLBPA is getting what they deserve now. They thought that by screwing over the young players, the old guys would get the money but turns out the owners are just keeping the money.

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        1. Yoan DeBrinsky‏ @House_423 2 Dec 2019
          Replying to @DSzymborski @soxmachine_josh

          They need a RFA system, along with a set number of years from draft/signing before UFA.

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        1. Matt Corbett‏ @CorbettMatt 2 Dec 2019
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          Make players FAs the offseason after they turn 28, regardless of when they were rookies

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        1. Joey Jo-Jo‏ @joey_jj_jr 3 Dec 2019
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          At the risk of opening up a bigger topic, this seems to be the flaw with many unions in the modern age. They exist largely to serve the longer-tenured members over the younger (and perhaps more efficient) members.

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