[DC 86]

The Rays do a remarkable job.  But they are the outlier. As for the owners playing games with revenue sharing, I get ya.  But that’s not going to stop either.  Players have to realize they don’t have the leverage the owners do.   But they still can make significant gains.  It’s time to drop demands they have no chance on.  Focus on the incremental gains they can achieve.

The Rays are the most extreme outlier, but the Royals, Guardians and Cardinals are all smaller market teams that have also reached the World Series in the last decade.

The MLBPA have already dropped all the demands that were non-starters and have focused on incremental gains, but owners have been fairly intransigent, essentially every PA proposal in one area has been met with a counterproposal requiring much greater concessions from the players in another area.

[DC 86]

The Rays do a remarkable job.  But they are the outlier. As for the owners playing games with revenue sharing, I get ya.  But that’s not going to stop either.  Players have to realize they don’t have the leverage the owners do.   But they still can make significant gains.  It’s time to drop demands they have no chance on.  Focus on the incremental gains they can achieve.

The Rays are the most extreme outlier, but the Royals, Guardians and Cardinals are all smaller market teams that have also reached the World Series in the last decade.

The MLBPA have already dropped all the demands that were non-starters and have focused on incremental gains, but owners have been fairly intransigent, essentially every PA proposal in one area has been met with a counterproposal requiring much greater concessions from the players in another area.