About this episode
Tim Dierkes joins Darragh McDonald to discuss the early CBA proposals from the Players Association and MLB.
MLBTR founder Tim Dierkes joins Darragh McDonald to discuss the early CBA proposals put out by both the Players Association and MLB. Some topics discussed include a competitive integrity tax, a hard cap and floor system, shared TV revenue, how many games each side would be willing to sacrifice, how to improve competitive balance, the public nature of the negotiations so far, how the MLBPA could improve their PR, and how pragmatic the current collection of owners will be during negotiations.&n...
People in this episode
Host: Darragh McDonald
Guest: Tim Dierkes
Topics covered
- CBA proposals
- competitive integrity tax
- hard cap and floor system
- shared TV revenue
- competitive balance
- negotiations
Keywords
- CBA
- MLB
- Players Association
- competitive balance
- negotiations
- tax
- TV revenue
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Organizations: Players Association, MLB, MLBPA
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