Chicago White Sox

100% agree.

Are you actually against the principals of WAR?

I’m honestly content with my pay even if I don’t think it’s 100% equitable, so while I’m not looking elsewhere at the moment the opportunities I’ve received due to promotions do provide flexibility. From my perspective, being paid a little bit less than what’s fair is fine if there is a long-term benefit to the experience being gained.

We have a performance management system and the top performers receive no direct benefit in terms salary or bonus over their peers who simply meet expectations. As such, people with similar jobs / responsibility receive similar financial benefits regardless of performance and are more or less paid at a market-based rate. Do people make more as they move up the corporate ladder and take on more responsibility? Of course they do, but that’s how any org structure is going to work. I’m really struggling to understand your point here. Should lower level Walmart & Amazon employees receive a wage that allows for a reasonable standard of living? Of course they should, but what the fuck does that have to do with major league baseball players earning $600k or more at minimum? You’re so anti-ownership that you’ve somehow convinced yourself that being paid for performance is a bad thing. Should Dylan Cease get paid less than Reynaldo Lopez? How is that a good thing?

New to the pay grade and salary increases are capped when promoted, so you usually start below the median unless you come from the outside. They do give merit increases at higher rates if you’re below the median salary, but that really has nothing to do with actual performance but rather experience. Ultimately at my company high performance is rewarded with faster promotion opportunities and the occasional spot bonus. But it never feels good when you know you’re outperforming a specific peer but realize he’s making more than you.

I have no idea how you’re linking this to wage suppression. What were the owners proposing to pay per win and how does that compare to the current arbitration system? And as a top performer at my company I get paid less than the median for my pay grade, so yes I’d much rather prefer a compensation system that rewards actual performance than years of experience.

Again, you have no idea how the real world works if you actually think an objective, data driven performance management system is somehow worse than the subjective bullshit most of us have to deal with in our professions.

Your complete lack of reality when it comes to labor relations. Please explain to me how Fangraphs is being used to devalue and commodity players.

???…you crack me up Parkman

People are also failing to realize there are multiple ownership cohorts and each one has different interests. Manfred’s job is to find common ground that benefits everyone and instead he’s hoping he can just bully the MLBPA into solving his problems. Losing games is the result of his shitty leadership and long-term planning.

Manfred is absolute scum

I’d be for that as well.

I do wish / hope they let the best non bye team pick their opponent. I think adding some strategy to the mix would be cool as hell.

Honestly, send Keuchel to the pen to start the year and have him replace the first guy to go down. I get it’s not ideal from a salary perspective, but we’re an injury away from a 3-4-5 of Keuchel, Kopech, & Lopez. Too much uncertainty with those three guys not to add another starter.

Nightengale recently pointed out we were in on Ray. I really don’t think they want to rely on Keuchel providing quality innings or risk his option getting exercised. And that’s a problem when your #5 starter is going to be on a massive innings limit. I think they have higher ambitions for the rotation than just a role player.

Brad Miller makes the most sense to me.

Which free agent SP would you pursue? Unfortunately the market is pretty thin at the moment.

For example, Conforto at $20M and Bassitt would put you close to $29M alone. Even if you go cheap at 2B and with Kimbrel’s replacement you’d be hard press not to spend $35M on those combined positions.

Typo…see post above. This is what happens when you’re on four hours of sleep…lol.

Sorry, meant RF, 2B, SP, & RP.

But they could easily spend above what the luxury tax was going to be previously ($210M) as they are already at $195M. At a bare minimum, I expect the Sox to trade Kimbrel (freeing up $16M or so), while also adding a RF, 2B, SP, & RP. Those four will almost certainly cost more than $16M and perhaps as much as $40M. That could push our luxury tax payroll close to $220M, so even an extra $10M really helps here.

If so, I will be doing a lot of celebrating this weekend!

Agree. 40% of the league making the playoffs after a 162 game regular season is plenty.

This could make Grandal the most valuable hitter on the team:

Good news for us for at least the next couple of seasons: