There’s no deferred money, no opt-out clauses and a full no-trade clause.
Salaries are paid based on the number of games played.
The bonus, on the other hand, will be paid out regardless.
Guerrero is guaranteed that money.
Good for Vladdy, Jr.
It’s a great thing for baseball when teams can keep their homegrown stars.
Don’t get me wrong.
I also don’t think he’ll age particularly well.
The current Collective Bargaining Agreement for Major League Baseball ends after the 2026 season.
If you’re 40 or older, you remember the last baseball work stoppage and how awful it was.
The players went on strike in August of 1994 and it didn’t end until April of 1995.
It was crushing for any baseball fan.
The Montreal Expos never recovered and moved a decade later.
They’ve been saying for decades that they will never entertain the topic.
Since 1995, it seems like the owners have accepted this as fact.
They moved on and negotiated things like the luxury tax and revenue sharing.
But 1994 was a long time ago.
Most of those owners have sold their teams or died since then.
Many of these current owners don’t have the scars from that strike.
Now they want to lock out the players until they get what they want.
That’s not saying Vladdy did anything wrong at all.
I believe we’ll see a few contracts this off-season structured the same way.
The worst part of all of this is it’s so unnecessary.
Why do they need a rule to spend money that fans give them to make the team better?
Why should we trust such greedy people?
Everyone is gearing up for a war.
We now see the players protecting themselves for what might be a long battle.
I’ve seen this conflict between billionaires and millionaires before.
You know who gets fucked the most?
