Papelbon Channels Fehr
“It’s a tough situation for me right now,” Papelbon said. “I feel like with me being at the top of my position, I feel like that (salary) standard needs to be set and I’m the one to set that standard and I don’t think that the Red Sox are really necessarily seeing eye to eye with me on that subject right now.” (emphasis added)
That sounds a lot like an MLBPA memo. Let him go to arbitration, then pay him.
March 5th, 2008 at 8:52 am
Apparently, Prince Fielder has opened up the floodgates with his complaining.
I don’t get it…this isn’t a new paradigm: you’re a young player, you get to eat shit for a few years before striking it rich in arbitration/free agency. Prince, Markakis, and Papelbon aren’t the first young guys to have great seasons and make shite wages. (”Shite” in relative terms, of course).
March 5th, 2008 at 9:23 am
I don’t have a problem with guys pining to get paid more, but with the MLBPA using young players as PR proxies.