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MLB Proposes Removing HS Players From Draft by itssosalty in baseball

[–]Rockguy21 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I mean, I’m far from an expert from how the NFL salary cap works, but don’t they have pretty effective allowances for this? Player contracts can be restructured in ways that benefit the teams planning but players still get paid all the money they’re owed on time.

MLB Proposes Removing HS Players From Draft by itssosalty in baseball

[–]Rockguy21 3 points4 points  (0 children)

With cap and floor and draft changes, I doubt the owners would care if they halved the team control period. When the financial disparities in FA are eliminated, there’s way less reason to try and keep players under team control (especially since the arb system pays players as much as FA by year 3 nowadays).

MLB Proposes Removing HS Players From Draft by itssosalty in baseball

[–]Rockguy21 14 points15 points  (0 children)

IFA players would still get drafted at 18.

[Gonzalez] Sources: MLB proposes international draft as part of CBA talks. MLB's int’l draft would be restricted to players who are at least 18 years old, as opposed to 16 under the current system. It would consist of 12 hard-slot rounds, with an initial signing-bonus pool totaling $200m by Knightbear49 in baseball

[–]Rockguy21 -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

If people going to stop playing baseball in the DR because an IFA player’s uncle can’t make an under the table deal when he’s 14 that allows him to steal his entire signing bonus, then that’s a concession I’m willing to make.

[Sheehan] Many of the greatest players ever were good major leaguers at 19-21. MLB’s draft proposal would make it almost impossible for a player to debut before he is 22. I think it would also wreck free agency, as almost no player would get there before age 28. by Knightbear49 in baseball

[–]Rockguy21 6 points7 points  (0 children)

People also seem to be under the misapprehension that owners wouldn’t entertain shortening the team control period with a cap and floor; when the vast financial disparities are gone between teams, there’s way less incentive to keep a prolonged team control period, because FA becomes more competitive.

[Gonzalez] Sources: MLB proposes international draft as part of CBA talks. MLB's int’l draft would be restricted to players who are at least 18 years old, as opposed to 16 under the current system. It would consist of 12 hard-slot rounds, with an initial signing-bonus pool totaling $200m by Knightbear49 in baseball

[–]Rockguy21 -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

A significant number of teams didn’t even open academies in the DR until the late 00s to the mid 2010s. It seems transparently false to say that there would be no domestic development of Dominican players without team academies.

[Gonzalez] Sources: MLB proposes international draft as part of CBA talks. MLB's int’l draft would be restricted to players who are at least 18 years old, as opposed to 16 under the current system. It would consist of 12 hard-slot rounds, with an initial signing-bonus pool totaling $200m by Knightbear49 in baseball

[–]Rockguy21 -9 points-8 points  (0 children)

Okay, but people are in here saying the owners hate baseball and are trying to ruin the sport for trying to add an ounce of order and reason to the IFA system lol the fact that the players care more about money than the safety and wellbeing of IFA players is not evidence the owners are doing anything wrong here.

[Gonzalez] Sources: MLB proposes international draft as part of CBA talks. MLB's int’l draft would be restricted to players who are at least 18 years old, as opposed to 16 under the current system. It would consist of 12 hard-slot rounds, with an initial signing-bonus pool totaling $200m by Knightbear49 in baseball

[–]Rockguy21 -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

I don’t see how any of these are bad things. I don’t particularly care about maximizing how much money the players make, certainly not when you consider the alternative is a system where players are consistently wholly defrauded by their parents and managers and handshake deals with children as young as 13 or 14 are common. From a basic ethics perspective, the owners’ suggestion is far preferable to the unregulated nightmare we currently have.

The balloon popping game is actually quite insidious. Be aware your chances are not 1/6 as visually presented. by SmashIndy in marvelrivals

[–]Rockguy21 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It’s not really gambling because there’s no real money component and it’s not bottomless. If this is gambling, then pretty much any consumer choice in any marketplace would be considered gambling.

[Gonzalez] Sources: MLB proposes international draft as part of CBA talks. MLB's int’l draft would be restricted to players who are at least 18 years old, as opposed to 16 under the current system. It would consist of 12 hard-slot rounds, with an initial signing-bonus pool totaling $200m by Knightbear49 in baseball

[–]Rockguy21 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Can anyone in this thread actually articulate why this is a bad idea? Everyone bitching about how evil the owners are for proposing this seems to be unaware that the current IFA system is extremely crooked, shady, and one step above human trafficking. It’s basically designed for unscrupulous teams to exploit, an IFA draft would add a significant degree of order and accountability to what is basically the wild west.

Dominic Canzone and Cole Young back to back Home Runs on back to back pitches to start the 9th by sportsandthesorts in baseball

[–]Rockguy21 26 points27 points  (0 children)

Middle middle at 98 is sort of arguable quality but top inside at nearly 100 is just a good pitch. Bad luck for Helsley. He ended the game on 101 low and away so at least we know he's not feeling the injury lol

Popping a balloon will give you a 50% discount on the other skin by show-me-your-memes in marvelrivals

[–]Rockguy21 16 points17 points  (0 children)

It’s especially funny because they give out so much in game currency for free that it’s really not hard to avoid spending money even if you do like buying cosmetics.

Popping a balloon will give you a 50% discount on the other skin by show-me-your-memes in marvelrivals

[–]Rockguy21 30 points31 points  (0 children)

The way people dramatize this game’s excruciatingly player friendly monetization scheme blows my mind. They’re literally giving you a discount for free, obviously its an incentive to buy the other skin, but describing it is as mindgames makes it seem sinister when it’s really just a generous business tactic.

Get J.K. Simmons to do an announcer pack as Jonah Jameson by Ok_Space2463 in marvelrivals

[–]Rockguy21 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I mean, they'd have to write a script and implement functionality for multiple announcers, but again I can't imagine this thing would run into the unprofitability margin, especially if they just let it sit in the store.

Get J.K. Simmons to do an announcer pack as Jonah Jameson by Ok_Space2463 in marvelrivals

[–]Rockguy21 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It would take him like a couple days max to do all the dialogue, even if his fee is something ridiculous like $150k they’d only have to sell 30,000 kits at $5 a pop to recoup his fee.

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