Could a team really hire that many scabs, even in 1989?
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AmericanMovieFan — 16 years ago(June 03, 2009 02:46 AM)
I realize free agency didn't become the circus show it is today, but did teams really have that few of players under multi-year contracts so that they could just change 90% of the roster every spring?
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sabalon1 — 16 years ago(July 03, 2009 03:52 AM)
why not, the LA Clippers do it every few years. jettison or trade any player that would cost them money.
in fact, the pittsburg pirates are doing it as we speak. in fact, the washington nationals are probably the closest to the Major League Movie Indians. try and convince me that mess was assembled on purpose LOL
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coagrd — 16 years ago(July 03, 2009 10:37 PM)
Well, some of the players were coming back. Remember that Doran was still on the team because of contracts "The only thing about Doran is that he is high priced." Also, you get the feeling that eddie harris was returning.
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PKLarkins — 16 years ago(July 06, 2009 11:15 PM)
A. They're not "scabs." There is no indication that they did not join the union.
B. This is an unsuccessful team with little money to spend. Dorn and possibly Harris were under contract. Apparently Dorn cost them so much they didn't have enough for anyone with talent.
C. Rachel Phelps wanted the team to lose. Why would she spend big bucks buying expensive player contracts? -
SendMe581 — 16 years ago(August 16, 2009 09:16 PM)
Plus dorn was coming up on FA he said and didnt want to take one in the eye. also meaning most contracts are heavy ended. just clerifying why dorn cost so much. he was an all star once you know. lol
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goleafs84 — 16 years ago(August 21, 2009 03:36 PM)
As far as I know, in Major League Baseball, there are no scabs. Once you sign a conract, you are automaically a member of the Major Lague Basball Player's Association. Players like Jake, who was an invitee, should have aleady been a memeber, because he playd MLB Ball in the past. Rookies like Willie Mays-Hayes and Rick Vaughn were probably not members yet, but once they made the team, they would have signed a conract and becacame members.
The closest to scabs in the MLB was during the lockout of 2004-05, when the eaems tried to go with eplacement players during spring raining, but once the collective bzgining agreemnt was reached, teams dopped them immediately.
At the start of the 2005 season, if there was no agreement and the replacement players played, once the CBA was reached, I'm sure those replacement players would be barred from joining the Player's Association for being a scab. -
SuperNostalgicBrother — 16 years ago(April 03, 2010 11:52 PM)
Yes, I'm pretty sure teams in the past did have alot of scrubs (look at the Seattle Mariners during the time Major League came out), but it's only a movie though.
Plus in 1989, The Indians were still struggling which is by that point of thirty four seasons and finally got out their funk in 1995 with a 100+ win season and a trip to the World Series (they went again in 1997).
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jefgg — 12 years ago(November 11, 2013 05:26 AM)
The Marlins owner really did unload almost all the players with big contracts after winning the World Series. I heard having too many players with big contracts makes a baseball franchise difficult to sell. But wouldn't prospective owners want a team with some talented players?
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Rockhound6165 — 9 years ago(October 26, 2016 08:11 PM)
One thing I found funny is apparently none of these players had agents. Vaughn was called while incarcerated. Taylor was called while in Mexico. Hayes just shows up. That said, I'm guessing a few of the players were returning players. Phelps probably got rid of their high priced talent, if any but kept Dorn probably because no one wanted him. Also, I hate to keep on invoking the 1993 Phillies but they pretty much did the same thing bringing in players like Larry Anderson, Pete Incaviglia, Jim Eisenreich, Milt Thompson(2nd Phillies stint), Todd Pratt, Danny Jackson, etc. These were decent players but not great players they brought in. Just so happens the entire team had career years.