Par L’histoire de Passan sur ESPNce:
Skubal est membre du sous-comité exécutif de huit membres de la MLB Players Association, le bloc de joueurs le plus puissant, et avec l’expiration de la convention collective le 1er décembre et un lock-out de la MLB presque certain sans nouvel accord à cette date, certains ont vu l’affaire comme un test décisif pour le combat attendu à venir.
Ne doit pas être négligé, OMI.
Passan met cela à la lumière du contexte des chiffres disparates présentés par Skubal et les Tigres :
Alors que plus de 90 % des joueurs éligibles à l’arbitrage règlent leur cas, Skubal, 29 ans, avait l’intention d’essayer de repousser les limites du système.
Le pari a fonctionné. S’appuyant sur une disposition rarement utilisée en arbitrage qui permet aux joueurs ayant plus de cinq ans de service et ce qu’on appelle "réalisation spéciale" — les Cy Young consécutifs se qualifient — pour comparer leurs salaires non seulement à ceux du système d’arbitrage mais à ceux de tous les joueurs des ligues majeures, Skubal a construit son argumentaire autour des salaires des lanceurs de départ qui ont dépassé 40 millions de dollars.
Au minimum, je pense que cela ne diminue pas les risques de lock-out, et cela les augmente presque certainement.
Personnellement, au-delà d’un salaire minimum, je pense que la prochaine ABC devra apporter d’autres modifications au système d’arbitrage. J’aimerais notamment permettre à un arbitre de diviser la différence par deux. Nous verrons si quelque chose se passe.
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Par TheSocraticGadfly
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I want to clarify that I don’t think this happened, but it would be really funny if they let him win the arbitration case so that he would tank the union vote
Splitting the arb # down the middle allows both sides to adjust their asking price to be cartoonishly high or low. It’s the same reason so few high-leverage games are allowed to end in a tie: the tie usually benefits the party which has less to lose, and instead of playing to win they often play to just not lose.
Honestly, Chris should just be happy Skubal didn’t ask for more during Arbitration and I still think he gets it. Owners hate the arbitration process and I think that will be another point of emphasis during the impending lockout.
I think bringing arbitration numbers more in line with free agent values is ultimately a good idea though it definitely does not help resolve anything now.
There’s a real haves and have nots situation now among the players. As it stands you basically get the real money in, for most, year 11 of professional baseball (including the minors).
If players in arbitration could get something proportional to their real value, that would naturally pressure free agent offers down to that real value. As it stands, free agents are able to be overpaid because the arb players are underpaid. Drafting and development is still incentivized because the owners would massively prefer a 1 year/$30 million contract over a 10 year/$300 million contract.
Not sure how powerful that 8 player subcommittee is. During the previous lockout the negotiations down to the final hours before MLB would start to cancel games that season. All 8 players voted voted against ending the lockout. While the rest of the players in the union voted in favor of what was negotiated on and thus the lockout ended.
Boras pretty much controlled that subcommittee through Max Scherzer.
So Skubal and the Tigers caused a lockout. Good job, Tigers.
And they gave Framber Headcase $38.333M…per year
The eight-man executive subcommittee is important, but not necessarily that powerful. As I recall all of them rejected the 2022 CBA that was eventually ratified by the MLBPA members.
The 8 player subcommittee is a sounding board for specific actions within the union. In deciding union votes they hold less power than the 30 player committee. Passan is trying to stir a pot that will give him something to talk about. Skubal is a player who wants to make as much money as he can and if politics play a role, he’ll do it.
The amount of control teams get over the players they draft in mlb is crazy. The fact they can stash them in the minor leagues is crazy.