At this point, college basketball, with its conference tournaments underway and the NCAA Tournament just around the corner, has been most affected. However, quickly-changing attitudes toward the approach to preventing the spread of the disease led to swift action from universities and conferences that directly affected college baseball.
The most aggressive moves came from the Ivy League and Patriot League, which announced that all spring sports seasons, including baseball, have been canceled. Additionally, several schools Wednesday announced changes in attendance policies that would eliminate spectators at games and limit those in attendance to players, coaches, essential staff, and in some cases, recruits and families of players, but in many cases, those previous policies were superseded by announcements that play would be suspended altogether.
Pro-rating player salaries would seem to be the easiest solution, though that's just me speculating. Player compensation for major and minor leaguers will be a significant issue. It takes days to receive credit for a full year of service time. Players need three years of service time to qualify for salary arbitration a handful qualify with less under Super Two provisions and six years to qualify for free agency. There's a chance, probably even a good one, the MLB season will not be days in The MLBPA will want their players to receive credit for a full season no matter how many days they play.
MLB and the owners will push back. Neither sides wants to lose something service time for players, team control for owners to a shutdown that is neither side's fault. It's a tricky situation. Mookie Betts will be an oft-cited case for any public service time discourse. Betts is one year from free agency. He'll want credit for a full year in so he can hit the market at age The Dodgers won't want to sacrifice any team control to the shutdown, however.
If is wiped out, they'll want Betts in , which in turn means delaying his big free agent payday. See the problem? Service time negotiations could grow contentious. They're already a sore spot in labor relations. Teams manipulate service time to keep their best players around as long as possible and the MLBPA doesn't like it. I have no idea what a sensible solution is -- could it be as easy as pro-rating service time?
As noted earlier, MLB is going to lose money during the shutdown, and the financial burden will be shared between between the owners and players. They're in this together even though they seem to be at each other's throats quite often. The less teams make in , the less they figure to give free agents in the offseason, and potentially in offseasons beyond that. It's too early to worry about the shutdown's impact on free agency -- we have plenty of pressing things to worry about now -- but there will be an impact.
It's all but certain. Less money is coming in and that means less money will be spent. Econ The future of free agency isn't necessarily something that must be resolved before they can play baseball. Baseball's annual amateur draft was scheduled to begin June 10, however the NCAA canceled all winter and spring championships last week, including the College World Series.
College baseball across the country has been shut down and most high school athletics either have been suspended or canceled as well. Amateur baseball has come to a halt. Earlier this week MLB sent a memo to all 30 clubs directing them to shut down their amateur scouting efforts. That includes draft coverage as well as their international operations the international signing period opens July 2 each year.
Here's a snippet of the memo via Baseball America 's Carlos Collazo :. E ffective immediately, the Commissioner's Office hereby imposes a temporary prohibition on all Club scouting activities, both domestic and international.
During this time, Clubs may not hold tryouts public or private or attend non-Club amateur baseball events e. Clubs also may not conduct in-home or other in-person visits or administer any tests or assessments of amateur players that are done as part of the pre-draft or pre-signing process. In addition, Clubs may not encourage players to conduct tryouts, workouts or games that Clubs would be able to watch remotely.
Even if a team wanted to break the rules and scout amateurs, there are no games or workouts to scout. Everything has been shut down. MLB's memo says there has been no decision made regarding the draft and international signing period, and that the league will "provide guidance" in the future. They're still figuring out what to do, basically. In a perfect world, MLB would push the draft and international free agency back into the offseason.
That would hopefully give players an opportunity to play in summer and fall leagues, and in MLB sanctioned workouts. It's not ideal, but it might be the best solution given the circumstances. Amateur scouting is currently on indefinite hiatus.
They want to figure out their major-league issue first because those will make or cost them money. The draft is a crucial day, however. This story has been shared 33, times. This story has been shared 29, times. View author archive follow on twitter Get author RSS feed. Name required. Email required. Comment required. He took a moment to hydrate after landing. He was seen wearing a black baseball cap. At one point, Cruise masked up. He sped off on a red motorcycle.
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