by Coltrane
The MLB players union is making noise about suing for collusion, but they’ll never win another collusion case again.
Using metrics such as WAR, player performance is now quantifiable to the point that it makes sense that each player sees similar offers from the individual teams. With more complete information the teams now know exactly what they’re buying.
Teams are now much less likely to pay $5 for a $3 gallon of milk.
The players are going to have to deal with the new reality.
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Postscript: I’m a day too late with this post. Here’s Fangraphs take on it from yesterday. I guess I should have read Fangraphs late yesterday.
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