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SPORTS Saturday 3 February 2018

Boycott ance tax and additional
penalties for high payrolls,
including lesser choices in
Continued from Page 17 different players, different the amateur draft.
quality of players, different “The CBT is designed to be
CAA represents more than GMs, different decisions, a restraint on the spending
150 baseball players, in- new basic agreement, dif- of high-payroll clubs,” Man-
cluding Robinson Cano, ferent agents who have fred said. “I think that the
Yoenis Cespedes, Buster particular prominence in a system, without singling out
Posey, Shohei Ohtani, particular market in terms the CBT, actually is work-
Adam Jones, Jacob de- of who they represent,” ing pretty well in the sense
Grom and Noah Synder- Commissioner Rob Man- that the standard devia-
gaard. fred said Thursday. “Those tion of our payrolls that are
Van Wagenen’s free factors and probably oth- being projected next year
agents this offseason in- ers that I can’t tick off has actually gone down
clude Todd Frazier. Van the top of my head have significantly, suggesting
Wagenen said he chose combined to produce a that our payrolls are more
to speak out now because particular market this year. compressed, top-down,
spring training was ap- Just like there’s been some the bottom-up, which we
proaching. “The sentiment markets where the lid got feel is important in terms of
that I’m hearing from play- blown off in terms of player preserving the competitive
ers is that something radi- salary growth, I think I can balance in the game.”q
cal may be necessary to honestly suggest that oc-
show the other side there casionally you’re going to
is unity and strength in in have some that are a little
their frustration,” he said in different, not quite as ro-
a telephone interview. bust.”
Spring training workouts New York Mets general
begin Feb. 14, but partici- manager Sandy Alderson, Everybody wins watching the big game
pation is voluntary until the speaking to fans at Citi
mandatory reporting date Field on Thursday, said an- Are you ready for the big game?
on Feb. 24 — the day after alytics contributed to the Exciting food & drinks
major league spring train- slow pace of negotiations. Balashi beer bucket special
ing games are to start. “Big data is the reason Bar snacks **only @ bar
Levinson praised Van Wa- we’ve seen so little move- Mixed grill platter us $ 26.95 (++)
genen and agreed with his ment in the free-agent 3 TV's
3 TV's
conclusions. “It is discon- market, because as data Big screens and projector
certing, and disheartening becomes more pervasive
for clubs that are awash in the game, as it has, it inside the restaurant
in revenue and or are fully tends to narrow the range Call to reserve your Spot
capable of improving its of different evaluations,”
product to choose to do he said. “The evaluations Raffle prizes and giveaways (while supply last)
otherwise,” he said. “Fur- become much uniform.”
ther, it is deeply troubling The average salary, ac-
to encounter that almost cording to the players’ as-
all clubs are operating in sociation, rose 3.3 percent
a strangely similar fashion. last year to nearly $4.1 mil-
There are no coincidences lion following an increase
in a monopoly.” Large-mar- of just 0.35 percent in 2016,
ket teams, including the Los the lowest rise since 2004.
Angeles Dodgers and New The new collective bar-
York Yankees, are cutting gaining agreement, the
payrolls to get under the first since Tony Clark suc-
$197 million threshold for ceeded Michael Weiner as
luxury tax payrolls. “Every union head, added surtax-
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