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Manfred: MLB Favors Free Agent Signing Deadline

By Anthony Franco | February 15, 2024 at 8:28pm CDT

Commissioner Rob Manfred addressed a few topics in his chat with reporters this afternoon. His announcement that he wouldn’t seek another term beyond 2029 was the most significant development. Among the other topics: the league’s desire for a free agency window during the offseason.

“We would prefer to have a free agency signing period, ideally in December, with a deadline,” Manfred said, regarding the league office and the owners (relayed by Alex Speier of the Boston Globe). Manfred confirmed the league has floated that possibility in conversations with the MLB Players Association, which opposes the idea.

“We actually made proposals to that effect to the MLBPA. They were not warmly received,” he continued (link via ESPN’s David Schoenfield). “With the system we have right now, one of the tactics that’s available to player representatives is to stretch out the negotiation in the belief they’re going to get a better deal. That’s part of the system right now. There’s not a lot we can do about it. Certainly, from an aspirational perspective, we’d rather have two weeks of flurried activity in December, preferably around the winter meetings where (media is) all there to write about it.”

Some agencies, most notably the Boras Corporation, are more comfortable than others in encouraging players to wait deep into the winter to sign. That’s hardly unanimous — high-profile Boras Corp. clients like Corey Seager, Brandon Nimmo, Carlos Rodón and Xander Bogaerts have inked huge contracts relatively early in prior offseasons — but it has again been a topic of conversation with Cody Bellinger, Blake Snell, Jordan Montgomery and Matt Chapman all unsigned into the second week of February.

[Related: Boras Clients Who Signed After January In Previous Offseasons]

One can debate how much responsibility for slowly-developing markets falls on agents, as Manfred implied, versus clubs themselves. Teams can have a similar motivation for waiting to either put an official proposal on the table or move towards a player’s asking price. Clubs could hope that players will feel increased pressure to have a deal in place by the early part of Spring Training and lower their demands. While there’s surely some level of brinkmanship on either side of negotiations that linger for three or four months, there’s no doubt that MLB’s free agent period plays out more slowly than those of other main sports.

The NFL, NBA and NHL all have salary caps and floors, a key distinguishing feature from MLB. That plays a part in spurring early-offseason activity in those other leagues as teams have fixed budgetary ranges. There’s more variability in team payrolls in MLB, which has the luxury tax to disincentivize spending at the top end. There’s no official salary floor beyond the cost of filling a roster with players on league minimum salaries (although obviously no team pares spending to that extent).

While the sport’s salary structure is a significant factor, there’s no question that some kind of signing deadline — whether an end date for multi-year contracts or any major league signing — would translate to a flurry of activity. The impending lockout and transaction freeze on December 1, 2021, led to a run on free agent signings.

As shown on MLBTR’s Contract Tracker, there were 30 multi-year free agent deals agreed upon by December 1 that winter. There were eight such contracts last offseason and only six this past fall. Edwin Díaz and Aaron Nola are the only players to sign nine-figure guarantees before the end of November over the last two offseasons, with both remaining with their previous organizations. There were six deals that exceeded $100MM before the lockout in 2021; all six players changed teams.

It’s easy to make the case that’s a more compelling offseason for fans, even if it’d result in minimal activity in January and February. At this point, it’s mostly academic though.

The MLBPA is broadly opposed to what it perceives as restricting players’ options during free agency. The union certainly harbors concern that a deadline would allow teams to hold firm as that date approaches with higher urgency for players to find jobs before a temporary transaction freeze. It stands to reason the league will try to reengage on this issue once talks get under way about the next collective bargaining agreement in 2026, although it’s hard to envision the MLBPA being more receptive to the idea at that point.

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  1. Skell 2

    2 years ago

    Yeah…… this will never happen

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    • This one belongs to the Reds

      2 years ago

      As long as the players let the agents run their show, it won’t.

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      • YankeesBleacherCreature

        2 years ago

        Players and owners run the show. Not Manfred and agents or Boras.

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        • James Midway

          2 years ago

          Agree Boras wants to run the show so bad and he will try to make it look like he does.

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        • Fever Pitch Guy

          2 years ago

          YBC – Technically you are correct. However there are players who have publicly said their agent is paid for their expertise therefore the player will leave it all up to them as to whether or not an offer should be accepted (provided the player would actually enjoy playing for the team).

          It’s like using a realtor to sell your house. You make the decisions, but if your realtor says “I think we can get a much better offer” then most likely you’d trust the realtor and hold out for a better offer.

          So basically the player is the head, but the agent is the neck …. and the neck can turn the head in any direction they want.

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        • durhamsboner

          2 years ago

          This is a great analogy. But as a Realtor, if a property languishes on the market for too long, the seller will say “drop the price and get this thing sold”. Players need to start doing that.

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      • HatlessPete

        2 years ago

        Reds, lol what? Do you imagine that scott boras travels around with his clients in the back of a van and sells them off to the first gm who walks up with enough cash in a briefcase? Agents work for players and players who sign with boras know how he operates better than we do. If snell wanted to take that bag from the Yankees and get it over with, the deal would already be done

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        • This one belongs to the Reds

          2 years ago

          I don’t have to imagine, I have seen first hand how agents operate. Have you?

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        • HatlessPete

          2 years ago

          Oh really? Tell me more. That’s certainly an unusual perspective for a rando in the comments to have.

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        • User 899214610

          2 years ago

          Leave him alone Pete. He just watched Moneyball

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      • Scott Kliesen

        2 years ago

        If you were a player, you’d be smart to have a highly competent advisor helping you get the best deal based on your preferences.

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    • Shadow Banned

      2 years ago

      Scott Boras punching air right now

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    • MLB Top 100 Commenter

      2 years ago

      Stupid idea. Wahhhhh, wahhhh. A couple of precious little snowflakes have a tizzy fit because they do not know which league their roto-keepers will play in. Wahhhh!

      Owners can be smart enough to offer less after players report. No need for a rule beyond that.

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      • i like al conin

        2 years ago

        Yeah this seems like a solution looking for a problem. Let the market figure it out.

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  2. SweetBabyRayKingsThickThighs

    2 years ago

    Terrible idea as always from MLB

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    • hiflew

      2 years ago

      Which means it probably will happen since all of the other idiotic ideas have come to pass.

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      • MLB Top 100 Commenter

        2 years ago

        I used to think the DH was one of those idiotic ideas and now I am neutral on it.

        I would like to get rid of that ghost runner though. For tied regular season games, just play a normal 10th inning with no ghost runners. If the tie remains unbroken after the tenth inning, record it as a tie.

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        • hiflew

          2 years ago

          I am still against the DH in the NL. I never had a problem with the DH being in the AL and none in the NL because it gave fans of both sides a choice. If you liked the DH, you could be an AL fan, if you didn’t, there was the NL. But taking the option they chose made one side happy and forced the other side to suck it up.

          I am 100% against the idea of a tie. There are 13 pitchers on a staff. Even if you take away the 4 starters not pitching that day, the other 9 pitchers should be able to get through a 16 inning game with no problem easily if they would just let them pitch instead of telling them to go throw as hard as they can for 3 batters. I would be in favor of having a 2 or 3 day “rest list” that would not count against the 40 ma roster in order to bring up fresh arms. You could only use the list after a 13 or 14 inning game, but I think it would be fair.

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        • bag o ballz

          2 years ago

          I disagree, I like the idea of ties because it allows teams to truly be more competitive- as long as you resolve ties at the end of the season with tie breakers. I just feel like the ghost robber doesn’t really do that, it basically throws the roster construction and home advantage away in favor of’just getting the game over’.

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        • Nosferatu Zodd

          2 years ago

          Home run derby for tied games.

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        • bag o ballz

          2 years ago

          that is even worse than the ghost runner, it completely imbalances the game and in no way proves who deserves to get a win on their record

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  3. Jake Biggar

    2 years ago

    Ya know I was against this idea when Ken Rosenthal pitched it but now having seen how this off-season has gone, I’m all for it. It is February 15th and 4 of the top 7-8 free agents are still unsigned. That is absolutely ridiculous. I’d even think about having a trade deadline too in the off-season and then trades don’t start again until the season begins. Something needs to change with how utterly long this process takes.

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    • rememberthecoop

      2 years ago

      I’m in favor of both – trade & free agent signing window.

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    • Fever Pitch Guy

      2 years ago

      Jake – There’s no need for MLB to step in and institute a deadline. If every team, or most every team, says “ST has begun, our roster is basically set, we will not be signing any free agents to major league deals” then Boras will get the message and learn not to be an ass dragging his feet in the future. You don’t need MLB to teach Boras a lesson, the teams can do it themselves.

      That’s like people complaining about paying $8 for a hotdog and $15 for a beer at games. Don’t pay the damn prices and guess what? The prices will come down.

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      • bag o ballz

        2 years ago

        I disagree, I like the idea that Farhan talked about in a presser a while back, you have a deadline for multi year deals and after that all signings are for one year deals only.

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      • JLinTexas

        2 years ago

        Sounds good, but the last time they tried getting together on anything similar, they got sued, and lost, for collusion. I’d like to see a deadline myself, something more like mid-January though.

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        • bag o ballz

          2 years ago

          yeah either EOY or mid January makes sense – I feel like there should be the winter meetings first and then afterwards you have a little bit of time to make a flurry of moves for the multi year deals

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    • MLB Top 100 Commenter

      2 years ago

      Jake

      Do you mean that it is ridiculous that the owners are refusing to pay enough to the top free agents? Or that the top free agents don’t settle for less? Negotiations are a dance and creating an artificial deadline will only be used to benefit one side over another. Suppose a team has three starting pitchers get injured in April, why shouldn’t they be able to sign a free agent?

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      • Augusto Barojas

        2 years ago

        @Manny Yeah yours is a solid point. I don’t see any way they can impose some kind of deadline. Players who have not signed should be free to sign when a team wants to pay them, plain and simple. Injuries happen, etc. I think a deadline would be too contentious a subject to ever fly.

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      • NickTheDev

        2 years ago

        I think you missed the part where it would be for multi year deals only. So you could still sign guys to 1 year deals, which if you are suddenly facing injuries and pivoting thats probably what you want anyways.

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  4. Old York

    2 years ago

    I prefer to have it open all year. It keeps things interesting and if players still think they are wroth $X amount and the market doesn’t think so, then they lose out and someone else gets to play. It also keeps baseball interesting throughout the offseason instead of one deadline day and no cation until spring training.

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  5. astros_fan_84

    2 years ago

    I like the idea of a freeze during Christmas and New Years so that front offices can go on vacation, but a hard deadline would not benefit the players.

    I don’t enjoy FA holding out for better contracts, but it’s their career, not mine.

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  6. greg1

    2 years ago

    Dumb,

    You want to speed up FA signings and make it feel more like the other three major sports, add a salary cap. When you’ve only got so many dollars to spend and you have needs, that speeds up the market.

    Hopefully the MLB will be better in 2030.

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    • drtymike0509

      2 years ago

      A salary cap is never going to happen.

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      • greg1

        2 years ago

        I agree, and I’m not saying I’m in favour or against it. It’s just a truism that by putting one in would definitely ensure big signings happen more quickly.

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    • gbs42

      2 years ago

      A salary cap and signing deadline only help the owners and hurt the players. I’m 100% opposed to both.

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  7. towinagain

    2 years ago

    MLB = crush the little guy

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    • Franco27

      2 years ago

      Lmao, the average salary is almost 5m. Give me a break.

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      • yeasties

        2 years ago

        Average is not median

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        • hiflew

          2 years ago

          The lowest salary in MLB is higher than the salary for the President of the United States. I don’t think mathematical semantics is really the problem here.

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        • aragon

          2 years ago

          Will people watch presidents play baseball? Hardly. Player salaries are high because they provide excitement for fans.
          Wall St. rookies right out of colleges earn millions. Say something about that.

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        • greg1

          2 years ago

          Median or average salary, who cares. If you’re at the absolute bottom end of the salary floor in the MLB is $720K.

          Not a bad paycheque for a year’s worth of work.

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  8. The Voices

    2 years ago

    If they let joe mauer in the Hall of Fame which is laughable then it will be an outrage if they really do actually end up rejecting Albert and Ichiro and trout (word around the campfire)

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    • HatlessPete

      2 years ago

      Lol what? Did you get lost on your way to a post where this comment would make any sense?

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      • hiflew

        2 years ago

        And where exactly would this comment make any sense? Only place I could think of would be the mind of a madman.

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        • HatlessPete

          2 years ago

          Lol fair point. Far as Kentucky concerned it’s his world. We just happen to live here.

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    • User 2079935927

      2 years ago

      IF? He’s been elected. Why would they reject a guy with 700 HR’s? Lay off the sauce dude you’re making a fool of yourself.

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      • hiflew

        2 years ago

        Barry Bonds and Alex Rodriguez say hello.

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    • Blue Baron

      2 years ago

      Why are you still posting, Kentucky? You reached your limit days ago.

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      • HatlessPete

        2 years ago

        I know you mean well baron but there’s still some ‘shine in the jug and Kentucky ain’t no yella-bellied quitter! He’ll tucker himself out and sleep it off evenutally.

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    • tedtheodorelogan

      2 years ago

      You gotta stop going camping with the short bus kids.

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      • Blue Baron

        2 years ago

        Says the short bus kid.

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    • User 401527550

      2 years ago

      You’re still talking this nonsense?

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    • dshires4

      2 years ago

      That bourbon kicking in huh?

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  9. Logjammer D"Baggagecling

    2 years ago

    First thing he has to do is get rid of Manfred Ball or don’t have a ghost runner until the 12th. Then get rid of Blackout restrictions. Then maybe have a FA deadline.

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  10. ohyeadam

    2 years ago

    A deadline by spring training would be a good idea imo

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  11. Paleobros

    2 years ago

    Rob any sooner than 2029 is also so good so let us know buddy

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  12. aragon

    2 years ago

    He’s working for Borass!

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  13. truthlemonade

    2 years ago

    How would MLB enforce this?

    “No player may sign a contract worth more than a total of $5mm between February 1 and June 1.”

    I guess I would be ok with that.

    The marginal players who wait until February (like Jurickson Profar) would not be hurt as their contracts are unlikely to be more than $5mm. And I remember liking the idea of older pitchers like Roger Clemens making midseason debuts.

    I do with players would hurry up and sign, but that is not my decision to make, and I am ok with them signing whenever. If I were a player I would probably want to know where I am going to play for the next several years sooner rather than later.

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  14. bjhaas1977

    2 years ago

    I favor a new commissioner.

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  15. LFGMets (Metsin7) #ConsistentlyBannedBaseballExpert

    2 years ago

    This rule is unnecesary. If these bums don’t want to sign then who cares. Let them fight over a couple million. These guys should be paid minimum wage, then will see who loves the game and who is just here for the money

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    • Blue Baron

      2 years ago

      What an amazingly dumb comment.

      But considering the source, that’s not surprising.

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    • gbs42

      2 years ago

      This rule is unnecessary. If these bum owners don’t want to sign players then who cares? Let them hoard a couple (more) million. These owners should make minimum wage, then we’ll see who loves winning and who is just here for the money.

      Fixed it for you.

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  16. eddiemathews

    2 years ago

    If the owners approve of it, it’s a bad deal for the players.

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  17. Rsox

    2 years ago

    I actually would support a signing deadline so agents like Boras don’t drag free agency into march

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  18. Danbino33

    2 years ago

    The MLBPA continues to be completely stupid- they don’t want to give up the leverage for a few guys to hold out for that extra buck, but they don’t realize that a flurried free agent market and time period would draw attention, eyes and wallets to the game- which ultimately only helps them

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    • gbs42

      2 years ago

      How would this help? I’ve heard the argument but don’t get it. It would leave six weeks or so of zero talk about baseball whereas now the game is talked about all offseason.

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  19. dano62

    2 years ago

    Pathetic idea floated by Manfred – better to send MLB GMs to business school & learn ABCs of negotiating… they’d learn that leverage is a tool, and not necessarily they’re leveraged to being the tool…

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  20. User 2079935927

    2 years ago

    if he were alive. I would like to have had Foster Brooks as the next Commish. Just to watch him try to pronounce the players names like Satalamacchia Comedy Gold

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    • Blue Baron

      2 years ago

      Even better is watching you try to spell players’ names like SALTALAMACCHIA.

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      • C Us Sink

        2 years ago

        Rzepczynski. Now that’s a fun one to spell. Thank goodness for copy/paste!

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        • Blue Baron

          2 years ago

          I believe his nickname is Scrabble.

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        • C Us Sink

          2 years ago

          Yes. I really liked him the cup of coffee he had with Seattle.

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  21. OhioDodger

    2 years ago

    So, what happens if the player does not sign by the deadline?

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    • Bryzzo2016

      2 years ago

      They are ineligible to sign with any ML team for over the vet minimum if they don’t sign by the deadline.

      That will stop the agents from convincing their “star” clients to hold out BUT still allow fringe MLers to sign throughout the year incase of injury or trades opening up roster spots.

      Everyone wins. No more of this ridiculous dance or game of chicken.

      Owners will be forced to put their best offer forward knowing that due to the deadline, another team will.

      Players will know exactly what their market value is and take the best offer and/or situation for them.

      That way neither the player nor the team is benefiting from the other’s desperation.

      The owners and the players gain more control and agents like Boras can kick rocks.

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  22. TrueOutcomeFan

    2 years ago

    Making money off of making money. Genius.

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  23. PiratesFan1981

    2 years ago

    5 more years of Manfield. Hopefully the next commissioner is more neutral towards players or owners. Billy Beane comes to mind as a guy who could be more neutral since he has played and been in the front office of the A’s for decades.

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    • NickTheDev

      2 years ago

      The commisher is picked by the owners, works for the owners and is paid by the owners. You need to learn how it works before commenting.

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      • PiratesFan1981

        2 years ago

        Nick the dev no reason to be a jerk and dictate how I comment or when I do. I can express my opinions as I see fit (with in reason). If you don’t like what I say, scroll on. You’re a prime example of what is wrong with America. You tell them to “shut up, stop commenting” when something opposes what your beliefs are. You act like a millennial who expects “entitlement” or being “superior”. If you don’t like what I say, again, move along.

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    • Blue Baron

      2 years ago

      There is no commissioner named Manfield. But we will have five more years of MANFRED.

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      • PiratesFan1981

        2 years ago

        Spell check can be a jerk at times. You love it, but hate it too

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  24. The Saber-toothed Superfife

    2 years ago

    Why TF do they always have to be on a power trip? Authoritarian head trip telling everybody else what.to do.

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    • NickTheDev

      2 years ago

      Telling their own league what to do you mean?

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  25. beboplar

    2 years ago

    Teams shy away from signing high dollar free agents this late in the game, for good reasons:

    a) they tend to be more susceptible to injury coming in late to camp
    b) loss of marketing ability to take advantage of their name

    Boras’s “Big Four” are all good ballplayers, but none of them are super stars or game changers. None of them are worth the kind of money the media reports they are holding out for, so good luck.

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  26. Murphy NFLD

    2 years ago

    The only way I see that working is if players aren’t signed by a date, say Jan 1, then they can only sign 1 or 2 year deals unless resigning with the previous club. I still don’t think they go for it. Also what the point of a temp free as players will still wait tell it stops to resign. Even if it’s no Major league deals tell day 1 of season guys could still wait. So unless there are fixed terms after a specific date I don’t see how it really rushes the big guys to sign

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  27. mdbaseball05

    2 years ago

    There is no way this needed, and not really a reason to even implement it at all. Who cares if someone signs or doesn’t sign in December or January… no one reports to camp until mid-February anyways. It’s the whole “hurry up and wait” idea if you force them to sign before.

    Plus, it just doesn’t make sense. Most big-name guys sign before camp… so what if Bellinger and Snell are still out there (Bellinger is asking for $200M+ despite having one good year in his last 4 seasons… of course no team is matching that). But, most of the big names have already been off the board for awhile now. And, they usually are. It’s not like you saw the likes of Ohtani, Harper, Machado, etc. holding out until like May or something. No, they all signed before Spring Training started.

    All a deadline would do is give the team leverage and hurt the fringe veterans. If the teams aren’t paying the players market value early, then they definitely aren’t going to be paying them later on after whatever deadline is put in place. They’ve likely already weighed the value of said player to whatever they already have, which is why they felt they didn’t have to make the move early on in the first place.

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  28. Redb1

    2 years ago

    The only way this would ever pass with MLBPA is if there was a super high 1 yr deal cap that put the player at the top AAV level. Say right now the deadline had hit we’d be talking like 1 yr $45m cap. That could have some interesting effects on the market.

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  29. Scott Kliesen

    2 years ago

    As a Pirates fan, I’d prefer MLB focus on creating a system which penalizes teams who fail to sign any FA to a multi-year deal. For example, go three consecutive seasons without signing a FA to a multi-year deal, and lose their top draft choice.

    It’s very disheartening to be a fan of a team whose Owner is allowed to be both cheap and risk adverse.

    I’m not holding my breath, as MLB, MLBPA, and Agents stopped caring about fans of smaller market teams long ago. No other American sports league actively pursues policies to give larger market teams an advantage even close to as well as MLB.

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  30. juggernaut

    2 years ago

    Manfraud is trying to control more of baseball than his powers give him. Horrible idea for the players and their earning power, but the owners could low ball anyone late during the signing period. 100% NO MANFRAUD! Clock should be ticking on his way out the door sooner rather than later…

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  31. comish4lif

    2 years ago

    I see why the owners want this,..
    but what’s in this for the players?

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  32. Melchez17

    2 years ago

    If unsigned by spring training. the remaining players must play in Oakland for league minimum.

    Rotation:
    Snell, Montgomery, Lorenzen, Ryu, Greinke

    C Mejia
    1B Votto
    2B Merrifield
    SS Rosario
    3B Chapman
    LF Brantley
    CF Bellinger
    RF Duval
    DH JD Martinez

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  33. joew

    2 years ago

    I think I’d like a free agency period of around a month but obviously there would need to be exceptions to allow for injuries and such.

    I think it would be more of a benefit to players in the off season between teams pushing to sign and give players more certainty on their situation. But could also see it going the other way for those signing for less at the last minute.

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    • Melchez17

      2 years ago

      I’m sure someone will find a loophole and people will complain.

      Reply

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