beckdawg
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I don't want to come off here as though I'm shining up a turd of situation. So, keep that in mind when reading this. But one of the interesting thoughts I had is that after 2021, the CBA is done. There's been a lot of talk that this CBA fight could be pretty nasty. I don't think either side will be dumb and enough to have another 95. But I think it's quite likely that there will be major changes to the baseball landscape.
There's a concept in business that being lean in times of uncertainty is valuable because it allows you to better react to change.Having said that, the cubs positioning going into 2022 is very lean. They've almost entirely cleared their long term commitments now. The only current contracts past 2021 are Heyward's 2 final years, a team option on Kimbrel who probably will be traded this offseason or in july, the 3 years they control Hendricks and botes pretty reasonable deal. All of that amounts to $39.5M in committed money for 2022.
The main reason this interests me is we have no idea what the new CBA will look like. I mean they might put in a hard salary cap in which case having older players like Darvish making considerable money looks way worse. I've also seen some talk of getting rid of the way rookie contracts work. So rather having 7 years of control of a player it might be something entirely different.If that happens you realistically could be looking at a landscape where these massive FA starting happening more often in which case you want to have the money to go after them.
I don't want to go too deep into what if's here but i think we need to have this as part of the discussion. Ultimately I don't care how much money the team makes or loses but there needs to be some acknowledgment that being responsible with your money can have it's benefits.
There's a concept in business that being lean in times of uncertainty is valuable because it allows you to better react to change.Having said that, the cubs positioning going into 2022 is very lean. They've almost entirely cleared their long term commitments now. The only current contracts past 2021 are Heyward's 2 final years, a team option on Kimbrel who probably will be traded this offseason or in july, the 3 years they control Hendricks and botes pretty reasonable deal. All of that amounts to $39.5M in committed money for 2022.
The main reason this interests me is we have no idea what the new CBA will look like. I mean they might put in a hard salary cap in which case having older players like Darvish making considerable money looks way worse. I've also seen some talk of getting rid of the way rookie contracts work. So rather having 7 years of control of a player it might be something entirely different.If that happens you realistically could be looking at a landscape where these massive FA starting happening more often in which case you want to have the money to go after them.
I don't want to go too deep into what if's here but i think we need to have this as part of the discussion. Ultimately I don't care how much money the team makes or loses but there needs to be some acknowledgment that being responsible with your money can have it's benefits.
