Why are they not playing baseball ?

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Originally Posted by insidethewrapper

Why are they not playing baseball and compromising ? It can't be the players want more money. The contracts this past year are unbelievable. What is the biggest issue ? Are these guys in the real world ? Will baseball season being delayed etc. effect the card collecting world ? I know I'm fed up with these guys. Let's Play Ball.

It's 100% on the owners.

It's easy to be pissed off at both sides, Because it's the Millionaires Vs. The Billionaires, but there's genuine problems. The owners have more or less imposed a de facto salary cap, average player salary has more or less stayed the same over the past decade, while revenue and profits have gone through the roof. The commissioner of the sport is grossly out of touch, referring to the crowning achievement of the sport as a "piece of metal"

None of the players demands are truly unreasonable either. They want to lower the amount of service time before free agency, they don't want draft bonuses to be capped, they want the luxury tax raised so teams can be more competitive.

Further than that players expressed the willingness to play under the old CBA for this season, until an agreement could be reached, but the owners refused. It was the owners that locked out the players, not the other way around.