[jbergey22]

So the pool consists of luxury tax dollars or what?

I just dont understand how this would work.

So if The Twins want to keep Mauer, Morneau, Kubel and Span and lets make an extreme but possible example.

Lets say market value on each of them is 20 million. Twins would get 20 million X 30 percent x 4 players = 24 million out of this pool.

While lets say the Pirates have 2 players with a market value of 5 million and nothing else. Then they would only get 5m X .30 X 2 = 3m?

Im not really seeing how this is making the Pirates more competetive. And Im not sure how they are going to feel about losing out on all this money that is suppose to be helping them.

It may help keep some players on their original teams but its not going to help make the crap teams any better IMO. In all likelyhood they would just trade their good players for prospects anyway because they will be still unable to compete.

If you were talking about just putting revenue into a big pool. Why would teams that make huge amounts of money want to give that up and make nothing? Sorry Yankees I know you won the World Series this year and made 200 million but you have to put all your profits into this pool so the Pirates can keep Gorzianney(or whatever his name is) and the Nationals can keep Zimmerman.

And great news Pirates since you once again sucked it up big time this year you dont have to put money into the pool instead we will give you money and allow you to sign your best crappy player for over the market value. Great season.