He's making the league minimum. That's about $550k. For 60 games that pencils out to around $200k which is almost exactly what he owes the ownersfor the loan the players received back in March. What incentive does he have to play for no money? To be a good teammate? That was never really his thing. Sit out don't risk injury come back next year.
MAYBE he opted out because he's not going to make any money this year after paying back the loan from the owners so it's not worth it for him to play and risk another injury.
It sure does. He's admitting the early offers were never intended to reach an agreement which is a violation of the best efforts to play as many games as possible provision. The big dope admitted they were just running out the clock to get to the number they wanted.
“The reality is we weren’t going to play more than 60 games no matter how the negotiations with the players went,” said Manfred.
Tell us something we didn't know ya giant turd.
Players eat a couple gummies before the game starts then it's designed to be out of their system by the time the game is over. Ryan Braun was caught because he kept eating them all game. I assume every player in baseball does this,