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yankees500
Burke, you’re in free agency right now. How many teams have reached out to you?
sddew
Interesting perspective…I hadn’t really thought of it in comparison to other jobs. I’d like to hear more about his thoughts on the actual process he went through following the 2015 season, namely that he took a pay cut for 2016 even though he’s put up above league average numbers, and is once again faced with free agency.
sddew
Oops, I read the stats wrong. I read 2015 to be 2016, but it would still be interesting to hear more on what he actually went through.
jabrandt
Free agency is completely “fair” if you believe in collective bargaining.
stl_cards16 2
He said it’s “not unfair”
stl_cards16 2
Awesome, Awesome article. SO many fans are so quick to criticize players about their motivations in free agency. It is their chance to go where they want.
I never even realized the small percentage of players to reach free agency. Though, I guess being non-tendered technically makes you a free agent. But it goes to show that most of the players we see over the course of the year are fighting for their careers every day.
TheMichigan
Straight up MLBTR needs to hire Burke
Dookie Howser, MD
Burke is awesome
astros_fan_84
Very interesting article. Really gives you the feel and fear of player attrition.
Roasted DNA
Good stuff. On a non related subject the upcoming negotiations on the CBA should be very interesting. I hope the player’s union go after the way teams manipulate service time.
MLB continues to negotiate more money away from players – I wonder when the player’s union gets tough?
Dave 32
Ten years is a long, long time. I’ve personally never kept a job for ten years. 3-5 seems to have been my sweet spot before deciding that I need a new perspective.
Yeah, I totally get that it’s different when you work for Baseball instead of having a normal job like a normal person but is it really if you’re not a big name superstar?
I wonder if it wouldn’t benefit players AND teams if free agency hit at the same spots arbitration hits right now. Lots more low/mid-tier players hitting the open market at the same time would keep the salaries low and the player morale perhaps a bit higher by giving them more freedom. The elite players it doesn’t seem to matter since they either never hit arbitration and get huge contracts anyway.
The way free agency is set up right now basically only seems to restrict a certain class of player and that seems a little unfair to me.