MLB Pseudo-Season 2020: Roger, Dodgers
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Most deals are completely guaranteed. They could cut someone, but would still be obligated to pay them. Unless MLB ends up declaring bankruptcy.
Is the MLB, as an entity, responsible for paying those major (or minor) leaguers, or are the individual MLB teams who own the teams?
Can the MLB itself even declare bankruptcy?
All Major League contracts are fully guaranteed.
The responsibility is upon the 30 individual clubs. MLB, as a league, is a registered corporation and could file bankruptcy, but it would be highly unlikely.
Can't happen when the current CBA is still valid. It would be a clear violation of the FLSA and MLB would get smacked down in court in about four seconds flat.
I was going to say, with all the bad blood that now exists between the MLBPA and MLB after the owners brazenly tried to renege on a prior pay agreement, the 2021 CBA negotiations are going to be vicious.
Rumors are going around that some owners want to cancel the 2020 season.
I think maybe they should. At this point it seems almost pointless that we could get any kind of season of salt. If it isn't a plague it's civil war and then the plague will be back and owners are not going to lay off trying to squeeze the players. It already feels like a lost season and then what about the minor league teams. Do they hire all the players back they cut. I'm just glad we got tons of old games on YouTube right now.
Jason
Jason
There is a chance the USA won't even make it to next year, It will be Gilead.
Fuck the owners.
Don Fehr set the motion in forward to get a cap when he allowed the creation of the luxury tax exploratory committee as part of the resolution to the 1994 strike. I mean, both theoretically and in practice, the luxury tax as it exists today--even if the costs to owners are incremental--it's being used by owners exactly as intended, as a de facto cap.
But, yes, in 2021 ownership is going to demand either a hard cap tied to revenue or the elimination of guaranteed contracts.
Either concession will have Marvin Miller rising from his grave looking to eat the brains of all involved.
If you don't want high contracts, don't sign them. (And yes I know that is way too simple.)
But on a serious note, you'd never get the big spenders on board with a cap. Are you going to tell the Yankees or the Red Sox that they can't use their incredible wealth to overspend on every superstar like they always have?
But on a serious note, you'd never get the big spenders on board with a cap. Are you going to tell the Yankees or the Red Sox that they can't use their incredible wealth to overspend on every superstar like they always have?
The Yankees and Red Sox ownership were both huge architects of the current luxury tax system.
Stay classy, Nails... 
Len Dykstra hurls vile and unsubstantiated claims at Ron Darling, a judge, and the Mets
My God, what must it have been like to be this fucktard's teammate?
Len Dykstra hurls vile and unsubstantiated claims at Ron Darling, a judge, and the Mets
My God, what must it have been like to be this fucktard's teammate?
Minor League Baseball is dead.
It won't be back, at the very least in it's current form.
It won't be back, at the very least in it's current form.
Stay classy, Nails...
Len Dykstra hurls vile and unsubstantiated claims at Ron Darling, a judge, and the Mets
My God, what must it have been like to be this fucktard's teammate?
I like that his suit against Darling was dismissed due to Dykstra's massively shitty reputation as a bigot, homophobe and other assorted things. That's the way the civil court system should work, but no doubt there will be an appeal.
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