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Originally Posted by BishopMVP
It's not a free market because half the players are under team control and most of those are vastly underpaid. (Such as the reigning AL Cy Young Award winner being forced to sign a 1 year, $573,000 contract.) It used to be fine and "you get underpaid early, overpaid later" worked out in the aggregate, but now that teams are smarter about FA valuations and service time manipulation they're trying to keep underpaying players early on, and then no one is willing to overpay them later on.
The problem the union is going to run into is that the reforms that are needed will benefit future players, but won't help current players, so it could be very tough to get the players to present a united front and agree to the changes
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I wont disagree that player control is too long. And loopholes are manipulated. But I will not cry over a player only making $573,000.
The people with the money drive the market. That is how it works.