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MLB’s statements were they didn’t plan on cutting the 120 full time minor league affiliates which is reassuring. But from the rest of those proposals I think their plan is clear. Outsource development of 18-20 year old domestic players to colleges and cut the complex leagues. Then the DSL is will hold slightly more developed players for a year or 2 until they are ready for A ball.
They probably go for something like 120-130 total domestic players in an org so a cut of 1/5th to 1/4th total players each org has to pay. The other takeaway is they seem to want less risk and don’t like spending so much on both really young international and domestic players and want a few more years of development to weed out some players.
The international change I am on board with. The players shouldn’t be getting signed or at least verbal agreements so young. I don’t like the domestic changes and particularly the hard slots. Players already aren’t in a free labor market as they can’t sign where they want (drafted instead) and then taking away financial negotiation makes it completely team controlled and players should be able to negotiate their financial details. It isnt very American to not have any negotiating power over your salary.
I do understand from the owners the desire to cut the risk out of high schoolers but I also think it probably isn’t a fully shared sentiment among all owners. Some teams like the Dodgers are probably more than happy taking risks as the payoffs are higher.
On this front, I think what ends up negotiated in labor deals is players accept the international draft, domestic draft age requirement, but reject the hard slots and such a large draft pool decrease. The players likely lose here overall but I think they concede some ground here as their bargaining chip to avoid a hard salary cap.
You have to consider the new CBA as well. Both owners and players want more local tv contract sharing and owners want 100% sharing. There is also a good chance that teams are required to spend a certain amount and that amount would be higher than the current teams payroll and much higher than what they have in obligations for next year.
Signing someone like May is exactly what the team should do with that money they will need to spend. He is young and they need pitchers and even with most top prospects on the org being pitchers, they aren’t going to have a full rotation any time soon. May offers upside and with his age has less risk of falling off a cliff performance wise than most older FA SP.
Obviously it takes two to tango, but if May seems interested in staying in STL I would maybe offer something like 4 years $80 million right now. I expect if he keeps pitching like he has, he will be looking at maybe a shot at $100 million though.
If he isn’t interested, you explore trading him but the QO is easy to make if it still exists going forward
27 Mitchell walks because he doesn’t swing the bat and A pitchers have bad control. He has really dropped in my eye as like Chase Davis he is too passive to be valuable and won’t swing to actually do damage at times.
Baez has easy 70 grade game power. But I do want them to keep him in AAA longer to work on his plate discipline and contact. He has a swinging strike rate of 17.3% and his zone contact % is 78.2%. With his power, he can run worse numbers for those but I want to see him swing less out of the zone and when he swings make more contact. The BB% dropping shows he has changed his approach from last year and he doesn’t have to have an elite walk rate, but he needs to up it some.
Yesterday or the day before I noted Carrior hadn’t appeared in a game and at least yesterday he played DH for his first pro experience. Still likely on the mend of something if he missed 10 games and is DHing 1st game back
What a start by Dustin May. He was in control thr whole time attacking hitters. He was mostly fastball heavy with some really good sweepers thrown in as well
Whatever producer decided to put that Perfect Game bid up the whole PA should have a stern talking to
Great play by Noot. Not 100% sure he got the best jump off the bat but he recovered to make a nice sliding play
Yeah I don’t think the fan vote honestly matters that much. The fact you can cast your core so early into the year and then vote 5 times a day means it just isn’t a good tracker of players quality but what team has more fans and which ones are consistent at filling out a ballot. I will fill out one just to go through the exercise but I’m not doing it 5x a day for a month or however long it is.
I remember a few years back the Braves guys lead at most positions even when some of those guys weren’t very deserving just because the fans filled out their ballots like crazy.
Boy Burly robbed of a HR by Merrill. Burky has been on fire lately and I thought he had another one there
I mentioned I liked the Twins uniforms, but I really dislike these Padres unis. I appreciate that they are rocking a different color scheme other than the most common major sports teams. But I generally really dislike pin stripes and think they could do better without them and some other minor tweaks.