An Attempt to Find Solutions in the Negotiations for a New CBA
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
The Athletic
4.7 • 875 Ratings
🗓️ 8 December 2021
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
Eno, Britt & DVR make an attempt to "solve" some of the issues pending in the ongoing negotiations toward a new CBA. Will the players' 'War Chest' help speed up the process of reaching an agreement? How likely is a significant bump to league minimum salaries? Can the players end up with a faster path to reach free agency? If the luxury tax threshold is raised and penalties are reduced, will the teams willing to spend the most gain an advantage?
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Rates and barrels. It is Wednesday, December 8th, Derek Van Riper, |
| 0:20.4 | Bridgeroli, Enosaris here with you on this Wednesday. It is Wednesday, December 8th. Derek Van Riper, Bridgeroli, Enosaris |
| 0:21.6 | here with you on this Wednesday. This is the episode in which we attempt to fix the CBA. |
| 0:28.4 | If you're watching us on YouTube, it's just right there, just right under me. It just says, |
| 0:32.4 | let's fix the CBA. We're excited about it because there's like a few ways you can talk about |
| 0:37.4 | what's happening in baseball right now with the lockout. |
| 0:39.9 | You can be a fatalist about it and talk about how awful the fight is, which is awful, and it could take a long time. |
| 0:46.5 | Or you could actually be more solutions oriented and since it's only a Wednesday and we're all in a good mood. |
| 0:52.8 | We're going to take the ladder route. |
| 0:54.7 | We're going to try and be optimists. |
| 0:56.5 | We're going to try and help fix these problems or at least come to some kind of estimate |
| 1:00.3 | as to where some of the biggest sticking points are actually going to be resolved. |
| 1:05.1 | Now, sometimes the universe gives us a little gift. |
| 1:09.3 | And this is one of those days because we set this topic up, well, kind of talked about at the end of last week, but I put it in the rundown on Tuesday night. I woke up on Wednesday morning to a Kent Rosenthal article that was basically, let's fix the CBA. And it was step by step, the big issues, and he included some of his solutions. So that kind of works as a good |
| 1:28.2 | outline for this particular topic in a lot of ways. But before we go into Ken's piece and put |
| 1:34.3 | his ideas out there with our own ideas, the thing that came up at the end of last week, |
| 1:39.9 | that's still blowing my mind, Brit, is the idea that the players have this war chest. |
| 1:45.3 | And the more I've thought about it, the more I hope and think that it's more for leverage to move negotiations along than a thing that they'd actually want to use. |
| 1:55.3 | Like, it's a good thing to have and it gives them some protection. |
| 1:58.3 | But my hope is that it's just a way of kind of showing the owners, hey, look, you don't |
| 2:02.8 | need to drag this out. |
| 2:03.9 | We've got this in our back pocket. |
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