@old_school posted:Jesus folks get a grip, the owners don't give a damn about the minors during good years...let it go.
The players are out of their minds, as typical, about what their collective worth is. That bine said the owners need to take the brunt of this one and they will. The y players are still going to need to work for around 70% give or take it seems to me. That is 60% of the prorated portion of the salary. so in simple numbers
10m contract, 82games = 5m, 70% = 3.5m give or take.
If the players are not worth it why do the owners need to tamper with the market so much and have all those salary suppression rules (draft, limited contracts for young players, luxury tax) instead of having a totally free market like soccer has in Europe were 17 year olds sign big free agent contracts and there is no salary cap?
I mean I get the argument the teams sell tickets and everyone is replaceable but why does Paris st. Germain then pay 20 mil a year to 20 yo kylian mbappe instead of replacing him with a random minor league?
The owners have a good reason to have this "socialist" market and not really a free market.