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The other question will be now that Doumit signed and was a type B. The old CBA they would have received end of 1st round pick. Now I bet these will be later and hurt the Pirates strategy even more.
element, that was a good article, possibly the most glaring thing out of the whole article though was the picture. Notice the way all 3 are dressed? Two men wearing red ties looking professional and smiling, the other guy has no tie and looks like he just got screwed, and guess what, he did. At least now I can place blame on two people instead of just one. Can someone please force Bud Selig out before he degenerates this game any more. Michael Weiner needs to find a new profession as well.
While I am at it, if I were a college or high school baseball player with enough talent to be drafted, ie the top 200 prospects, I would petition and form a new union and get fair representation and fight this crap.
Hell, even the two things Weiner mentions as being points that he fought for and won seem to doom the Pirates in the long run, the increased super two means actual talented players will reach a point where the Pirates can't pay them a year earlier, meaning we get to see one less year of them, and the drop in compensation picks if we can keep them means that our chances from more picks also goes away.
For those who don't think this CBA is going to doom the Pirates forever, please explain to me how exactly it doesn't hurt them, long term or short term.
That's what I was saying though. It changes things for the worse but it really only codifies things that I expected to happen anyways. The big market clubs weren't going to let us have a competitive advantage either way. I don't blame the CBA. It still relates at it's heart to the fact that the big market teams are in some cases racking up 4 times (or more) revenue than the Pirates.
I'm not happy with the CBA but I'm not freaking out about it either. Maybe I was the only one who was appropriately pessimistic? Frankly it's better than I expected it to be.