02-24-2019, 04:38 PM
(02-24-2019, 04:28 PM)martyup Wrote: This doesn't make economic sense:
Quote:What’s happened in the market is you have a ton of players in their early 30’s, solid major-league baseball players that are free agents but they can’t get major league contracts. Because you can find somebody younger and significantly cheaper and the “WAR won’t be much different. So they are forced to sign minor league contracts. Which gives the organization the upper hand.
A free agent is free to negotiate. He gets paid what he is worth to a team in the free market. If a younger player of equal talent takes the job he wanted, he asked too much and should have lowered his salary expectations.
TC salaries for players just entering majors are inherently going to be less than even veteran's minimum. So even if veterans asked for the veteran's minimum (or very close to it), if there are enough TC players that can produce at or close to the same value as the veterans, the clubs are going to choose the TC players, every day of the week and twice on Sunday.
The TC players would seemingly also be preferable for another reason: the age curve, or the teams' concept of it.