MLB Has A Free Agency Problem

MLB Baseball has a major issue with Free agency, and it goes a lot deeper than just a few issues. From the reporting being an absolute mess, with Juan Soto maybe having offers from the Boston Red Sox, New York Mets, New York Yankees and maybe even the Los Angeles dodgers, there just isn’t much that is known from these reports. Not only that, but superstars don’t really get into free agency very often and because of that Mike Trout and Bobby Witt JR will never hit free agency. Let’s hope it gets better for baseball in the future!

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  2. I grew up a huge baseball fan. My father was too. I'd go to 10 or so games a year. Now I have almost no interest. I'll watch highlights of the World Series. That's it. I didn't watch one at-bat the entire regular season. Free agency shuffles players around too much and the big market teams hoard talent. It's a joke. It isn't level competition. I use my time and money in better ways. MLB has no entertainment value for me whatsoever.

  4. The MLB free agency doesn't hit the same as the NBA or the NFL. I think there is more news in hour 1 of NBA free agency than November and December combined.

  7. You're complaining that owners want to spend money to make their product better. What in the hell's wrong with you? That's how dynasties are built.
    The salary cap destroyed the other three major sports NHL NFL NBA.
    You're telling us free agency, is not exciting Anymore, baseball was better back then. Now they have a luxury tax the players association of MLB will not approve of it, so if you're just into basically making sure that owners can barely spend money to run their franchises, then go watch the other sports because people like you ruin professional sports for individuals who believe in allowing others to run their franchise any way they see it without the powers that be telling them they can't when they can!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    I'm Agent Smith and I approve this message.

  8. Stopped on “A’s are richer than the Yankees” because that is the lamest uninformed take I have ever seen their owner is rich the A’s are worth very little. The Yankees are a rich team because they make a ton of money the a’s owner is rich because he has a lot of money. If you can’t see the difference I don’t know how to explain it to ya

    Just hid you from my algorithm

  9. MLB free agency feels like a marathon instead of the exciting sprint it should be. Between dragging negotiations, lack of a salary floor, and stars hitting the market past their prime, the system needs a major overhaul. What’s your fix for this mess?

  13. Is it me or is it the Dodgers every year as the only team trying to win? Sure it doesn't always work, but at least we are trying. The runner up Yankees haven't improved one bit, yet my Dodgers won the chip easily and we already are better! Free agency sucks when only one team is doing the heavy lifting, the rest are just praying we get injured or choke.

  14. A cap won't make the non/low spending teams to go for bigger free agents because they seek, at most, mid tier players and it's not that they can't it's that they have the teams merely as part of their bussiness/income portfolio. What a hard cap will do is force the players to play for teams they don't want to be in, either because of the less money, years or the other things a team offers (chance to win, development, location, marketing, etc.)

  15. Dude. You’re confusing Steve Cohen with the dodgers ownership. The Mets don’t spend like the dodgers, at all. He signed a few players, 1 is still with the team. He didn’t sign an entire team. And the dodgers just keep spending so put them on blast, not Steve cohen

  17. Does the luxury tax go to the other teams?

    But yeah… If your owners aren't spending the money then you need to get new owners and protest them.

    I've seen Yankee fans going hard on the Dodgers about how much they spending… But Yankees have done this for decades, always taking the big names.

    The Dodgers are building a super team to try get as much success before they start paying all the deferred salaries they owe.

    Ohtani was a high market player who went to free agency.
    I think it's a fact of mlb now… Tattis will go free agency and sign for a big team

  19. Griffin White

    Born: July 2, 1999

    Died: July 9, 2087 (aged 88)

    His death was confirmed by his nephew, Braiden Howe. Griffin never married, had children or had any significant others. He was a little bit on the slow side. He passed away in a local hospital a week after his 88th birthday. He had outlived his parents and siblings. The only family members that he had left were his nephews. Most of them moved on and didn't have much to do with him. However, his eldest nephew Braiden, who was just 11 years younger than him, decided to help him out a bit in his older age. Fortunately, Griffin didn't have any memory loss of any sorts but he got into his 80's and became dependent on care and also got diagnosed with diabetes late in life. His nephew Braiden was the closest one to him (both in relationship AND in distance) so he vowed to be his caretaker in the last few years. He only lived about a mile or two away and always invited Griffin over for holidays. Braiden had three kids of his own and divorced many years prior so he didn't have that many people to take care of, as his children were all grown and had no more wife. So with Braiden's hands being free, he was able to care for his ailing uncle.

    At the time of his passing, Griffin was survived by his nephews, Braiden, Killian and Shepherd Howe.

    He was predeceased by his parents, Andrew and Sandra (née Crowley) White; brother, Brian White; sister, Stephanie Howe; and nephew, Sawyer Howe.

    Griffin worked several jobs in his life, starting as a carpenter alongside his late father, Andrew and then when his father passed went on to become a custodian in several public schools over the years.

  20. It’s so funny you mention the Padres along with the big spenders in the league. Padres are broke and cutting payroll because of their bloated aging contracts and mismanagement. They spend on the wrong players and they aren’t a model for any MLB franchise.

  24. Totally agree there needs to be a window of time… not sure two weeks but maybe a month… and then if no FA there is still trades that can happen – but keep that window until the new year or something… then a couple of months of quiet – getting ready for spring and everybody knows what they have going into the season!

  28. The MLB has the worst free agency of all sports. The MLB needs a salary cap immediately. I'm tired of analyists talking about where they think the top free agents are going every single day for months until they start signing mid December. There needs to be a rule that if you don't sign before a certain date, you don't get to play that year. Simple.

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