The new Collective Bargaining Agreement, good news for rebuilding teams -MLB Update
Major League Baseball (MLB) set another standard in the world of sports by signing a new collective bargaining agreement (CBA) earlier in November, 2011, which would ensure labour peace for many seasons to come, a win-win situation not only for the franchises,
but for the loyal and dedicated fans as well.
Unlike the National Basketball Association (NBA), MLB will see another season and many to come after that, but with this, some teams might be unhappy due to some of the spending restrictions introduced in the CBA, while others are rejoicing.
Those teams which are working towards rebuilding themselves for the 2012 MLB season, they could not have had it better with the equal opportunities in regards to drafting and signing players due to lower budgets.
It might not be perfect, but it certainly is helpful.
"Is this everything the Pittsburgh Pirates hoped it would be? No," team president, Frank Coonelly said. "But we don't subscribe to the notion it was aimed at us. For one, this has been in the works a long time. For another, if teams like the Yankees ever
wanted to really flex their muscles in the draft, they could do it. This prevents that. We'll continue to sign the players we draft."
The CBA is reported to be extremely beneficial to baseball teams residing in Texas due to the allowance of offering less money to pick up drafts and not losing them to the bigger and more powerful teams in the league.
Teams will have to abide by whatever rules are put forth in the CBA, since it is the only genuine way of ensuring financial peace between players, staff and team owners, something if not looked over, could potentially wreck havoc throughout the league, something
we have seen many a times in other sports like hockey, football and now basketball.
We really believe that whatever the rules are, we have to adapt to them and be successful within the confines of the structure,'' Dayton Moore told the Kansas City Star.
How it will affect teams will only be known in the draft and throughout the season, but for the weaker teams, it is certainly a good step.
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