How about all the money spent by owners to players who never pan out. Or worse – players that take ridiculous personal risks like Fernandez who we now know was drunk and high when he crashed his boat, costing the team millions to develop or attain a similar player. Let’s not even mention the contracts of non-performers who stole the owners money without a peep from the sports media.

Anyone thinking the $1 Billion put up at stake to turn the Cubs around was “risk free money” only need to look at the investors screwed in the Dodgers FU a decade ago.

I’m so sick of the anti-owner sentiment of the majority of sports pages who are unbalanced in their “reporting.”

You want a “fair” system? Great. how about establishing a base salary for every player – regardless of age, development or experience by level development they reach. $50K for A ball, $100K for AA ball or whatever. Then they actually get paid some amount of money per WAR they put up that year – collected at the END of the year. I bet the owners wouldn’t even ask for any personal endorsement money they made which was facilitated by associating themselves with the team brand and marketing they didn’t pay into but reap great rewards from.

Owners would put up 50% of their profits (if there were any) and it would be split on a pre-established reward for actual results basis.

The great part is that sports agency would nearly disappear except for endorsement contracts.

But you will never see that advocated by MLBP because it would hold players accountable to their actual results.

You want to bitch about the poor pampered players who only get hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars to play a kid’s game rather than taking a minimum wage 9-5 job like most of us – including many – owners had to do when they first started their careers? You won’t find much sympathy here.