The sport’s 2021 winter carnival was wiped out by a lockout, but has anything about baseball’s economics really changed?
SAN DIEGO — At baseball’s first post-pandemic Winter Meetings, it’s just like the old days. The multi-year and multi-hundred million dollar contracts are announced, the commissioner talks about economic imbalance and the game’s uber-agent scoffs at such talk.with Trea Turner’s 11-year, $300 million contract with the PhilliesThat deal, along with Justin Verlander’s two years at $86.6 million from the New York Mets, got things rolling.
Commissioner Rob Manfred, speaking to members of the Baseball Writers’ Association of America on Tuesday morning, either really isn’t sure or was hedging his bets. “On the positive side, I think, a week in December where there’s a ton of focus on players and where they’re going to be is a good thing in terms of marketing the game. And on the downside, I think everyone in this room understands that we have a level of revenue disparity in this sport that makes it impossible for some of our markets to compete. It’s some of the numbers we’ve seen. And, you know, that’s not a positive, just it’s like everything else in life, there’s good and bad.
Scott Boras is still baseball’s kingmaker. And the game’s most powerful agent held his traditional Winter Meetings news conference on Tuesday, which happened to be just after Manfred’s session with the writers. The commissioner got a conference room. The agent set up in an alcove off the lobby of the Manchester Grand Hyatt, since there was no way he’d be allowed to use an MLB-branded interview room.
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