In yesterday’s The Sporting News, there is an interesting article on how to fix Free Agency and to create parity in Major League Baseball. Simply don’t offer long-term deals. Here is the proposal:
No deal over 2 years for players 30 - 35
And no deal over 1 year for players over 35.
This sounds just like what I’ve been saying. Players want long term deals, they sign a long term deal, the market changes after the first two or three years, and the player wants to re-negotiate because they are under-paid, but happened to have five years left on their deal.
The old Brooklyn Dodgers had it right; they only offered one-year deals to players, coaches, and managers. Walter Alston signed 26 consecutive one year deals as manager of the Brooklyn/Los Angeles Dodgers.
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