Monday, December 29, 2008

Sign of times. Slow economy: Now talk of salary cap and collusion?

Well I guess now with the free agents signing slowing to a crawl between holidays and the fact the signings really have been mostly fringe players after the Mets and Yankees dolled out millions at the winter meetings , there is some talk about collusion and possible salary cap? Of course on the salary cap issue there is no shot. The baseball union will not allow it and right now the union contract is for another 3 years.

When it comes to collusion take a moment and read Murray Cass take on the last time there was collusion rumblings . He quotes a agent who said “There are a lot of rumblings that all the teams know exactly what everyone is doing with free agents .

Read his interesting article about the salary cap and collusion
here

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