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Pure PR spin. Local blackouts are caused by MLB's TV rights contracts, not player salaries. MLB could fix them tomorrow without a salary cap. Calling a cap on labor costs "fairness" is just trying to manufacture fan outrage to pad owner profit margins. #MLB
Baseball fans have repeatedly told us they have two issues with the game today: blackouts and fairness
We’re proposing to make three major changes to baseball:
1. Entering into a partnership with players where all revenues that are generated are split 50/50 between the teams and the players
2. Implementing a salary cap and floor that will regulate what each team can spend
3. Revenues from media generated in baseball are shared equally by the clubs
This will reduce the revenue disparity in baseball and help us address local blackouts
Major League players’ total compensation would go up and fans would get a more competitive game
It’s a win for everybody
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I got my wish!!! Thanks @CraigBreslow @RedSox
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Josh Pransky retweeted
Players last season with a hard-hit percentage over 50%, a barrel rate over 14%, and a walk rate over 15% last season:
James Wood
Yordan Alvarez
Munetaka Murakami
Jake Bauers
Bauers in 2026:
.373 wOBA on pitches 95+
21.3% Oppo AIR%
16.3% BB%
Red Sox badly need guys who can hit velocity. Also, guys who can spray the ball to all fields and who walk a lot, which he does.
BREAKING: First baseman Jake Bauers and the Boston Red Sox are in agreement on a four-year, $58 million contract, sources tell ESPN.
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This ⬇️
Morning, baseball fans. Another bootleg offer rejected by the Players Union. Same old song and dance.
I lived this in 1994. We walked out August 12 with a salary cap at the center of the dispute, and we lost the rest of the season and the World Series. Here we are, 32 years later, arguing over basically the same thing. Different numbers, same fight.
Meanwhile, Forbes estimates the average franchise is worth $2.9 billion—more than double what it was a decade ago. Those values grew under the system we already have. I believe pushing those franchise values even higher is a big part of what the owners want here.
And when owners talk about operating losses, show us the whole picture. Smart business owners take advantage of legitimate tax benefits, related businesses, media interests and real estate. A loss on the baseball operation alone doesn’t tell us ownership’s total return. Show us those numbers, too.
Don’t sell a salary cap as making everybody equal, either. Football has a hard cap, and some teams use nearly every dollar of their available room while others leave tens of millions available. Basketball has a cap and a floor, yet the Knicks’ cap payroll is roughly $221 million compared with $160 million for the Nets. That’s a $61 million difference between two teams in the same city.
A floor can force spending up, and a cap can limit the top, but neither guarantees a competitive organization. You still have to scout, develop and make good decisions. A salary cap doesn’t do that work for you.
Here’s what I’ll be watching before December 1: which clubs get their rosters built. If the smart organizations aggressively get their business done before transactions freeze, I’ll take that as a sign they’re expecting to play. If the market barely moves, I’ll be more concerned they’re preparing for a long fight.
Here’s my prediction: there’s going to be a lockout, and it’s going to drag through the winter. Spring training won’t start in February. It’ll get pushed to the second or third week of March, and the season will start a little late. Then both sides will look at the money they’re about to lose and say, “Enough. We can’t drag this out any longer.”
They’ll get a deal done, and it’ll be pretty close to the system they have now. That’s my call. I’ve seen this fight before. Enough posturing. Get it done.
#TheHugeShow #SheGone03
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I long to see the Red Sox get back to doing this. Make contact. Learn to hit to the opposite field. Take walks.
The Brewers (32%) and Rays (34%) scored the lowest percentage of their runs via the HR in MLB in the regular season. (Post – MIL: 35%, TB: 31%.). They hit the ball the other way. They make contact. There's more than 1 way to score and win.
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Does anyone know which two states in red once hosted a team in the modern versions (post mergers) of either the NFL, NBA, NHL, or MLB?
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Fun fact: If you’re rooting for the Milwaukee Brewers to beat the Los Angeles Dodgers in the NLCS, then you’re against a salary cap, whether you realize it or not.
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Josh Pransky retweeted
The Yankees have gone 17 straight seasons without winning a World Series title.
This ties the 2nd-longest title-less drought in franchise history, only behind 1903-1922 😬
Josh Pransky retweeted
Just so we're all on the same page ... this series between Bos and NY is very hard to predict.
That said, the most relevant sample we have is the series in late August, which had some massive variables. For example: the Sox used Andruw Monasterio on the mound for the end of the game in the series finale and the final was 16-1. The game was scoreless entering the bottom of the fifth, when Ranger Suarez fell apart. (That was the game with the Rafaela catch/no catch that contributed to a five-run Yankees rally in the bottom of the fifth.)
My point? There was one real constant in the series: the Red Sox didn't hit. They scored nine runs in the four games, including four in the ninth inning of Game 2. (That made a 2-0 game a 6-0 game.) The Red Sox scored three runs in their three losses - and Anthony and Story returned on Sunday.
Meanwhile, the Sox didn't pitch Tolle or Gray in the series, so their best arms were DNPs. They will obviously start Games 1 and 2.
When the Sox swept the Yankees in June to start their streak, they scored 21 runs in the four games - just a tick over 5 per game. They scored 6, 6, 4 and 5. They batted just .232 with a .692 OPS but they manufactured some runs and didn't strike out a ton (a little over seven times per game). They did hit four homers in the series. It wasn't great offense, but it was good enough because they pitched and played defense. (No Story and no Anthony.) Their best hitters were Yoshida (.429), Durbin (.400), Siegler (.285) and Contreras (.286).