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Hey, Hoynsie: You are extremely naive if you do not think the owners can break the union and reset the bar for salaries for the players. I would expect such opinion from someone like yourself who has always supported union workers. The correlation to baseball players needing a union is absurd. Just ask Bobby Bonilla. – Brian McKendry, Avon.
Hey, Brian: The owners have been trying to break the union since it gained power in 1966. So if they could break the union like you say, why haven’t they done it? The owners have been beaten in the courts, at the bargaining table and on the picket line. In the past it has been the owners who caved in almost every key negotiation. The pendulum has swung back to the owners recently because they have smart front offices, who have taken the teeth out of key union victories while flirting with collusion.
The union, unbroken as it maybe, is being tested in these current negotiations to start the 2020 season. An even bigger challenge is looming at the end of the 2021 season when the current basic agreement expires.
As for Bonilla, who do you think negotiated the system that has allowed him to receive deferred payments through 2035 from the Mets? It certainly wasn’t the owners with the exception of the Mets’ Fred Wilpon because of his entanglement with Ponzi scheme king Bernie Madoff.
Bonilla at one time was the highest paid player in the National League. To reach that point he had to go through arbitration and free agency, all the result of there being a players’ union.
Indians right-hander Emmanuel Clase.Joshua Gunter, cleveland.com
Hey, Hoynsie: With the suspension of Emanuel Clase being 80 games, which is close to half a normal 162-game season, wouldn’t it be worth it to the Indians to try and get his suspension reduced to 41 games because the Indians might only play 82 games this year? With salaries being pro-rated it makes sense. – Shawndog.
Hey, Shawndog: That’s not the way it works. Clase was suspended for 80 games because he tested positive for a performance enhancing drug. When a player tests positive, he has the right to file a grievance and protest the test results, but that’s up to the player and his representative. The team has nothing to do with it because the MLB Drug Prevention Policy is confidential.
The Indians found out about Clase’s suspension on the same day MLB released it. As for the penalties for a positive test, they’re set in the basic agreement – 80 games for the first offense, 162 for the second and a lifetime ban for the third.
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