“Allocate More Money”: Max Scherzer Clarifies Player Union Goals Amidst MLB Lockout

While there is no news on any upcoming meetings to discuss MLB lockout from the officials, players like Max Scherzer are starting to take things into their own hands. Max Scherzer, who became the player with the highest average annual salary, is also a member of the Major League Baseball Players Association.

Max Scherzer wants MLB to increase incentives to win

Earlier, All-Star MLBPA members, Zach Britton, Marcus Semien, and Lucas Giolito opened up about the MLB lockout. Now, the New York Mets upcoming season star, Max Scherzer, has also weighed in on the union goals.

Max and the association think the incentive to win should be increased for the 30 MLB teams, as teams have started embracing tanking. Scherzer said, “We feel as players that too many teams have gone into a season without any intent to win during this past CBA. Even though that can be a strategy to win in future years, we’ve seen both small-market and large-market clubs embrace tanking, and that cannot be the optimal strategy for the owners.”

Max talks about the demand to increase money

Max addressed the issue of players not getting paid a good amount later in their careers. Hence, if the teams aren’t willing to pay, later on, the union is expecting them to increase pay scale in the early stages of the career itself.

“The grand bargain is that you make less money early in your career so that you can make more money later in your career. Teams have shown that they’re not willing to pay for players’ past production for a whole slew of reasons. And if that’s the case, that’s the case. But if we’re going to look at players that way, then we need to then allocate more money to players earlier in their career,” Max said.

The players’ association looks clear in their heads about their demands. Now the next step would be for MLB officials and associations to sit down and start negotiating. However, no meetings have been scheduled, despite the lockout being in place for over a month now.

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