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Yesterday, the players proved that they are more united than ever

Yesterday, at the end of the afternoon, the baseball world learned terrible news: the new employment contract was not signed before the deadline, causing the first games of the season to be canceled.

Not postponed to later dates, but canceled. And that is really a disaster for the sport.

Now, I want to talk to you a bit from the player’s point of view here. And I know that some of you will not appreciate my apology for millionaires (although I find it good to remember that only 29% of MLB players make more than $1 million a year), but yesterday they did, in my opinion, something great.

And Anthony Rizzo’s words are the ones that struck me the most.

To the partisans, it is you that we will miss the most. To the younger generation of baseball players, we’re doing this for you. – Anthony Rizzo

Since the start of the negotiations, the players have been emphasizing a very specific point: they want better remuneration for young players, who are often underpaid.

Currently, there are players who are on their team’s roster of 40 players who need to drive an Uber in order to pay their bills.

And let me doubt that only one owner has had to drive an Uber since the lockout began. In fact, I would go so far as to say that none of them have done so for a while.

No, it’s not Max Scherzer, Gerrit Cole and Francisco Lindor who need that money. These guys are doing well financially and they don’t pretend otherwise.

However, that does not prevent them from trying to help their colleagues. Several veterans and well-heeled players have refused to receive the allowances offered to players since the start of the lockout to somehow increase the amounts granted to players who really need it.

We’re talking about $5,000 per month for these players. Do the math: we are very far from a million dollars a year.

The players know that the negotiations could continue over time. Still, seeing veterans refuse these allowances and being dedicated to the cause of increasing the salaries of young players, it united the group.

They also recommended that young players save money in case games are canceled (and they don’t get paid for those games)

After all, they weren’t particularly surprised by yesterday’s cancellations.

Again, I’m not here to feel sorry for the league’s wealthiest players. It’s more the fate of young players who are already having trouble making ends meet that makes me a little sad.

So will that of MLB stadium workers, who will find themselves unemployed due to a dispute in which they are not even involved. These people have too often been forgotten during the lockout and yesterday’s announcements hurt them very much.

What seems clear today is that the rumors about a potential Monday-Tuesday deal were aired by MLB itself. Thus, she gives herself the beautiful role by saying that the players have changed from your Tuesday and that it is not their fault.

Because, as Ross Stripling explains, the owners made completely ridiculous offers overnight from Monday to Tuesday. They put forward aspects that had never been discussed by relying on the pressure they put on them via the media.

When I said earlier that this text is not an apology for the wealthiest players, I should perhaps have specified that it is rather intended as an apology for the unity of the players against a group that does not didn’t want to discuss seriously until the last 10 days of a deadline he imposed himself.

The Players Association has not been completely blameless, don’t get me wrong. It may have been a little too greedy on certain points, admittedly, but in terms of volume, it did not crumble under the pressure of accepting an offer totally to the advantage of the owners.

Owners who use their teams to avoid paying all the taxes they should be paying, by the way. Take the time to read the following text, it is really worth it.

I sincerely hope that the conflict will be resolved as soon as possible and that baseball will be back before the start of the summer. However, until the owners come to the negotiating table ready to make concessions, there will be no agreement.

Because even if they are oh so eager to return to the field, the players are currently more united than they have ever been.

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