FanGraphs Audio: Dave Cameron on Getting That Money

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March 1, 2016

Episode 635
Dave Cameron is both (a) the managing editor of FanGraphs and (b) the guest on this particular edition of FanGraphs Audio, during which edition he discusses how players with zero to three years of service time (like Gerrit Cole) or players who rejected a qualifying offer (like Dexter Fowler and Howie Kendrick) — how players like that can take steps towards getting their money.

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Audio after the jump. (Approximately 36 min play time.)

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Famous Mortimer
10 years ago

I seem to be the only person to ever complain about this, but maybe the problem is the size of the files – 8 meg for all that audio, even just talking, is very small. Is there any possibility you could up the bitrate, or whatever the word is, and maybe improve the quality of the sound?

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Cuban X Senators
10 years ago

I believe the reserve clause worked like this: each year players signed contracts with a reserve year – an additional year at the team’s discretion to renew. By this process the players perpetually signed contracts that would not expire, and teams always held onto their players. Thus what Messersmith & McNally did was play out their reserve (or option) year. Teams renewed the previous year’s contract (the players were remunerated), and once that year was completed the players could (sue to) become free agents.

Fun to hear you both twist in the wind on your baseball history.

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Cuban X Senators
10 years ago

Another possibility for the Players Association to consider advocating for in order to raise the average age of ball players, lengthen careers and ensure more free agency pay outs: expansion.

We’ve now gone longer than any time since the first expansion of 1961. Our major sports as a whole have only added 2 teams since baseball last expanded in 1998 (5 teams of you think hockey is diverting players from baseball significantly & want to count the NHL). So there have been ~2% new jobs for top-level athletes created in a generation, while available men in their 20s born in the US has risen ~20-25%.

If owners have divided their national tv contract pies as much as they’d choose or the don’t want semi-distant teams cutting into their fanbase & cable tv money, then this slow accrual of available athletes will change the shape of careers & the game itself.

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