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Originally Posted by fleury
What are the owners fighting for this time? I haven't read anything about what they're going for? And haven't they learned from the previous lockouts, that the owners will always cave to the players, and the Yanks and Sox will always backstab the smaller clubs? I'm sure this will be a classic negotiation and in the 11th hour, say, Jan 31st, they'll both come to an agreement.
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good article here:
https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/...ooming-lockout
Players feel, with the emergence of analytics within front offices, that fewer and fewer second- and third-tier players are getting paid when they finally become free agents after six years of major league service time, which is often when a player turns 30 or very close to it. In general, players would like to be paid more at younger ages because that's when they are in their prime. The system also favors keeping players in the minor leagues for several weeks extra to slow down their major league service time.