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Originally Posted by SearchPatrol
So the owners would then have less mid-range players. It's no different than how football or basketball work with the salary cap. The owners spend 3.8 billion on player salary. How do the players want that distributed. The owners will always adjust. Shorten time to free agency. Spend less on player development. More players to sign. Less long tern deals. More shorter, high yearly contracts. MLB and other sports Unions are like no others. Everybody is fighting for the same jobs. Somebody else in the union wants your job, or somebody who will soon be in the Union.
To me the Union is fighting for 3 separate groups at once. The high end players - the 50 that are making 1/3 money. The older player who have been in the league and now want to get paid. The young up-and-comer who wants the older player's jobs. Union can't make all 3 happy.
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TV contracts have inc in value so theres also increasing that 3.8B. Theres also the more fun thought experiment of "why do you even need owners" initially, they put up capital, but the teams are now run like corporations. Unless the owner is running the team at a loss, they provide no value and only exist because of anti trust exemptions.
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