35 Years of Misery & Counting
Change for change sake is never good. But unfortunately that’s the world we live in in 2024 where a lame like Rob Manfred can take out everything traditional about baseball in less than a decade. And despite the fact that no one, including fans an players, liked these new uni’s since they first debuted in spring training, it’s only now that MLD decides to listen.
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The Major League Baseball Players Association dropped its request to introduce an age-based free-agency system into the sport on Monday, withdrawing a proposal in one of the three major areas MLB had shown no interest in changing, a person with knowledge of the negotiations told The Athletic.
That means the amount of service time it takes a player to reach free agency — six years — is most likely going to remain unchanged whenever the sides reach a new deal. The players had previously proposed a system to get some players to free agency after five years if they had reached a certain age: 30 1/2, and then eventually, 29 1/2.
I’m always wondering about the effort from pro athletes after they sign long-term contracts and honestly feel that with contracts sky-rocketing as they are these days, MLB had every right to keep their position on this.
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