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Originally Posted by 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.
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Outside of international scouting, teams have an equal ability to develop talent. In fact, the crappier teams get better draft picks (Getting them to use them on the best players may admittedly be another issues). If the Twins have a ton of good, young players it's cause they deserve to have them as a result of them doing something right. If the Pirates don't... well, they should learn to develop better players. The goal here isn't to make every team equal in talent level, it's simply to give teams a shot at keeping the players they develop instead of watching the Yankees just suck them all up.
I disagree with Skipaway that it wouldn't make a difference. His comments imply the Yankees will just spend absolutely whatever, and again I would state that the Yankees HAVE been interested in free agents and not sign them. That wouldn't be the case if they would just spend anything to get whoever they wanted.
I see no reason they would trade their good players for prospects unless they have very few good players, and then they probably should be trading them for prospects. When a number of good prospects come up at once, such as with the Twins, then resign them all. Suddenly a small market team can compete.
To your point about "Why would big market teams want to put revenue into a pool?" They already do, that revenue just gets distributed differently.
The Pirates currently also receive more from that pool than they put in currently. Under the proposed system that would only happen if they were to use it on their players instead of pocketing it.