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	<title>Comments on: How the New CBA Affects the Blue Jays</title>
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		<title>By: johnf</title>
		<link>http://toronto.locals.baseballprospectus.com/2016/12/01/how-the-new-cba-affects-the-blue-jays/#comment-18115</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[johnf]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Dec 2016 15:38:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&quot;This likely means the Jays will only pursue top free agents who receive qualifying offers.&quot;

Is this a typo that should read ... &quot;who don&#039;t receive QOs&quot; ...? or am I not understanding this argument/analysis?]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;This likely means the Jays will only pursue top free agents who receive qualifying offers.&#8221;</p>
<p>Is this a typo that should read &#8230; &#8220;who don&#8217;t receive QOs&#8221; &#8230;? or am I not understanding this argument/analysis?</p>
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		<title>By: Arjonn</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Arjonn]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Dec 2016 18:49:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Increasing the minimum for pre-arbs by say $100k would cost relative peanuts while benefiting many more players. If, for example, after factoring in injury replacements et al over the course of the season, teams would average the equivalent of 10 full-season pre-arbs, that&#039;s $1M more per team. 

So, I don&#039;t agree that MLB would have asked for much in return. Indeed, I&#039;d guess that with only a bit more effort, the PA could have gotten it without giving up anything.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Increasing the minimum for pre-arbs by say $100k would cost relative peanuts while benefiting many more players. If, for example, after factoring in injury replacements et al over the course of the season, teams would average the equivalent of 10 full-season pre-arbs, that&#8217;s $1M more per team. </p>
<p>So, I don&#8217;t agree that MLB would have asked for much in return. Indeed, I&#8217;d guess that with only a bit more effort, the PA could have gotten it without giving up anything.</p>
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		<title>By: Joshua Howsam</title>
		<link>http://toronto.locals.baseballprospectus.com/2016/12/01/how-the-new-cba-affects-the-blue-jays/#comment-18016</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Joshua Howsam]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Dec 2016 15:53:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, they did get a small increase (about $35K and going up slightly in the following years). But I think the union really is about the top end money going up, because that drives up all salaries beneath it.

Though I do agree that the base salaries affect way more players.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Well, they did get a small increase (about $35K and going up slightly in the following years). But I think the union really is about the top end money going up, because that drives up all salaries beneath it.</p>
<p>Though I do agree that the base salaries affect way more players.</p>
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		<title>By: Arjonn</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Arjonn]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Dec 2016 15:08:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[That&#039;s quite possible, but what I don&#039;t get is why fixing the QO system, which only affected 10-15 players a year, so they can make even more millions than they would make under the old system, is a bigger priority than a change that would benefit a far larger number of the PA&#039;s members. It&#039;s also arguable that an additional say $100k would be quite meaningful for many of those players whereas a few $M more across a multi-year deal carries little if any incremental value for players who are being offered $17M for one season. 

So, for me at least, it seems like the PA prioritized the interests of a few about to be or already very rich members over those of a much larger portion of its rank and file membership, which seems upside-down.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>That&#8217;s quite possible, but what I don&#8217;t get is why fixing the QO system, which only affected 10-15 players a year, so they can make even more millions than they would make under the old system, is a bigger priority than a change that would benefit a far larger number of the PA&#8217;s members. It&#8217;s also arguable that an additional say $100k would be quite meaningful for many of those players whereas a few $M more across a multi-year deal carries little if any incremental value for players who are being offered $17M for one season. </p>
<p>So, for me at least, it seems like the PA prioritized the interests of a few about to be or already very rich members over those of a much larger portion of its rank and file membership, which seems upside-down.</p>
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		<title>By: Joshua Howsam</title>
		<link>http://toronto.locals.baseballprospectus.com/2016/12/01/how-the-new-cba-affects-the-blue-jays/#comment-17990</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Joshua Howsam]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Dec 2016 22:01:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I imagine that&#039;s something for which the owners would have demanded a major concession elsewhere.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I imagine that&#8217;s something for which the owners would have demanded a major concession elsewhere.</p>
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		<title>By: Arjonn</title>
		<link>http://toronto.locals.baseballprospectus.com/2016/12/01/how-the-new-cba-affects-the-blue-jays/#comment-17988</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Arjonn]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Dec 2016 21:51:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I still don&#039;t understand why the MLBPA didn&#039;t seem to have any real interest in raising salaries more for pre-arb players. For example, maybe some kind of scheme where the minimum salary increases if a player has reached one and then two years of service time. Seems like that would benefit more members than changing the QO system, which will benefit far fewer. Not that it was either/or.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I still don&#8217;t understand why the MLBPA didn&#8217;t seem to have any real interest in raising salaries more for pre-arb players. For example, maybe some kind of scheme where the minimum salary increases if a player has reached one and then two years of service time. Seems like that would benefit more members than changing the QO system, which will benefit far fewer. Not that it was either/or.</p>
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		<title>By: Joshua Howsam</title>
		<link>http://toronto.locals.baseballprospectus.com/2016/12/01/how-the-new-cba-affects-the-blue-jays/#comment-17974</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Joshua Howsam]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Dec 2016 18:29:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nope, because he&#039;s only 22 (with a July birthday). He&#039;d need to be 25 in order to be able to come over and be exempt from the bonus pool limits.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Nope, because he&#8217;s only 22 (with a July birthday). He&#8217;d need to be 25 in order to be able to come over and be exempt from the bonus pool limits.</p>
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		<title>By: Mark Liu</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mark Liu]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Dec 2016 18:26:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Doesn&#039;t Otani already have four years of professional experience? Wouldn&#039;t that mean just two more years in Japan, even if the Cuban rule affects all international players?]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Doesn&#8217;t Otani already have four years of professional experience? Wouldn&#8217;t that mean just two more years in Japan, even if the Cuban rule affects all international players?</p>
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