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A few good things:



1. Hard cap on international spending (but no international draft)

2. AS Game winner no longer gets HFA in World Series



But sounds to me like more bad than good for us as Pirates fans. I don't know...maybe I'm just out of touch. But, I don't know too many people who make $555,000 a year as a minimum salary. Maybe that's more common than I'm aware.



At least here in the midwest, $89,500 would be seen as a very good salary. That's minimum wage for a minor leaguer on a 40 man roster for the second time in two years.



Again, not taking the side of ownership here. Maybe the problem is that more industries need to make the same demands that MLB players do. The players in the NFL, NBA, and NHL must wonder what they did wrong to get such crappy deals, comparatively.



http://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/1817 ... r-contract

5D5556617752757A140 wrote: A few good things:



1.  Hard cap on international spending (but no international draft)

2.  AS Game winner no longer gets HFA in World Series



But sounds to me like more bad than good for us as Pirates fans.  I don't know...maybe I'm just out of touch.  But, I don't know too many people who make $555,000 a year as a minimum salary.  Maybe that's more common than I'm aware. 



At least here in the midwest, $89,500 would be seen as a very good salary.  That's minimum wage for a minor leaguer on a 40 man roster for the second time in two years.



Again, not taking the side of ownership here.  Maybe the problem is that more industries need to make the same demands that MLB players do.  The players in the NFL, NBA, and NHL must wonder what they did wrong to get such crappy deals, comparatively.







http://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/1817 ... r-contract


Most players that are getting the minimum salary would get more if they were allowed to negotiate with other employers.



NBA players have a higher minimum salary:



http://basketball.realgm.com/nba/info/minimum_scale





The NBA's average player made $5 million per year in the 2010-11 season. The average MLB player earned only $3.3 million. The NHL average salary drops even more to $2.4 million, while the average NFL player makes “only” $1.9 million per year. NBA players take issue with these figures.



http://moneynation.com/how-much-money-d ... ayer-make/

"The minimum DL stint will now be ten days"



This sounds like a good move too, considering how often we seem to keep guys on the active roster waiting for them to get better.

Teams that lose a free agent who rejects a qualifying offer will still get a draft pick. The details: For most teams, that pick would be a sandwich pick immediately following the competitive-balance picks that are awarded after the second round. However, if that team comes from the 15 smallest markets and is receiving revenue-sharing money, and it loses a free agent who signs a contract worth at least $50 million, that pick would follow the first round. And if the team losing that player is over the luxury-tax threshold, the pick would follow the fourth round.



--Jayson Stark, ESPN Senior Writer