MLB flashes! Chris Taylor, Corey Seager and the proposed new system for salary arbitration

By Jesús Alaín Fernández

We come to the day with only 137 remaining until the start of the 2022 season. We invite you to take a quick look at what was playing the most in the major leagues this weekend.

Chris taylor

The Los Angeles Dodgers superutility received a qualifying offer at the conclusion of the World Series, giving it the opportunity to multiply its 2022 contract significantly from 7.8 million in 2021 to 18.4 million in 2022.

According to sources, Chris Taylor will decline the Dodgers $ 18.4M qualifying offer

– Jon Heyman (@JonHeyman) November 15, 2021

Chris has decided, according to MLB Network’s Jon Heyman, to decline this offer from the Dodgers and go for more in free agency. According to Spotrac, his contract for 2022 could be over 10 million.

If Chris Taylor does not return to the Dodgers, already via contract, the California team will receive a compensatory pick in next year’s Draft after the fourth round from whoever hires him. However, in Los Angeles, many are those who await the return of the player under the blue discipline.

Corey seager

The rumor about the possible early signing of the stellar former shortstop for the Los Angeles Dodgers is gathering force. According to Jeff Passan, one of the industry’s most renowned journalists for his reliable reporting, market conditions have changed.

In an unexpected turn, shortstop Corey Seager and infielder Marcus Semien are among the players whose markets have accelerated to the point they could sign before the expected Dec. 1 lockout, sources tell ESPN.

My dispatch from the GM Meetings, at ESPN +: https://t.co/g5c7WvkXyk pic.twitter.com/5XE58o3wRO

– Jeff Passan (@JeffPassan) November 12, 2021

Seager It could try to have contractual protection before reaching an eventual stoppage of operations due to the non-signing of the labor agreement between the players’ union and the MLB for the next December 1st.

Also according to Jeff summarized the agreement for Marcus Siemen and the market for starting pitchers could have big impacts during the current month of November. And with Eduardo Rodríguez we are having evidence of this.

Salary arbitration

The MLB proposed to the Players Association, within the framework of the negotiation of the new labor agreement, changes in the arbitration mechanism.

The idea is to replace the current procedure (team and player bring before a jury the value they consider fair and the jury decides on the basis of similar performances and situation what is the fair payment) by another based on the WAR coefficients in the version calculated by Fangraphs and service time.

MLB’s proposal to players would see salary arbitration replaced with an algorithm that would determine salaries for pre-free agency players per source

Sounds like that idea will be met with resistance from MLBPA

– Ben Nicholson-Smith (@bnicholsonsmith) November 11, 2021

According to Ben Nicholson-Smith of SportsNet, the probability of acceptance by the players of this proposal is very low as there are many inconsistencies that come from the calculation formula that make the mechanism unfair.