Baseball Musings
Baseball Musings
March 19, 2008
MLB Miffed

Here's the MLB side of the story:

According to the source, in the past, the coaches' compensation has come from the players' portion of the pool. This time around the coaches were eliminated from that pool. Did someone not tell the players? That'll be the interesting question to Sox player reps after the game.

The source said that coaches, and managers as well as the training staff will all be compensated and the final amount is expected to exceed $40,000 per man.

The major league source was miffed that they are being portrayed as the ones who backed out of an agreement.

Update: Here's Youkilis on the agreement.

"The conference call (in October) was tough in and of itself. There were six or seven players on it. In the business world conference calls are not the easiest way. You hear voices and everyone's talking. We definitely knew what we were told. There was added stuff just to get us to go over there. I can't blame one person for the misunderstanding. I think the next time we know going forward that when you have these conference calls, you have to get it in writing. It's the easiest way to do stuff. One thing that will be addressed at players' union meetings now is that you have to put it in writing and be on the same page. We found out today. It's a learning process, we're moving forward and we're going to have a lot of fun over there."

How could it not be put in writing? Someone dropped the ball here, quite possibly the MLBPA. Luckily for all involved it all worked out.

Update: Larry Lucchino is on the game broadcast now, and he says one problem today was that the lawyers for MLB and the MLBPA who negotiated the deal are in China.


Posted by David Pinto at 03:00 PM | International | TrackBack (0)
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"in the past, the coaches' compensation has come from the players' portion of the pool. This time around the coaches were eliminated from that pool."

If this is the language used by MLB, it smells like evasion to me, and I can seen how it could be used to imply to players that coaches were being separately compensated, while in fact they were not to be additionally compensated at all. What does it mean to be compensated form the player's portion of the pool? And what does it mean to be eliminated from that pool -- that they would be otherwise compensated, or that they would not be compensated at all.

Posted by: Capybara at March 19, 2008 03:37 PM

According to Pete Abraham of the Journal News, Mike Mussina the Yankees' player rep has stated that when the Yankees opened in Tokyo the money to pay staff and coaches came from the same pool as the players, as voted on by the players.

Posted by: Tim at March 19, 2008 05:16 PM

I believe the idea is a bit like the playoff bonuses. MLB gives a team X amount of money and then the players decide how to split it.

Posted by: Jason at March 19, 2008 08:43 PM

Here's a great article that articulates my thoughts precisely:

http://www.newsday.com/sports/baseball/ny-spwally0320,0,6092589.column?track=rss

Posted by: sabernar at March 19, 2008 11:26 PM
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