Interesting question for baseball fans to debate over?

In response to the Yankees third consecutive first round exit from the playoffs, everybody is asking who should take the heat. Is it the manager, the general manager, etc...

But, look at this in a different way. In the real world, in the jobs you and I work in every day, if we show up to work and fail to perform to our boss' expectations, we get fired. Shouldn't the players be held accountable? I know this would never happen because they are union and under MLBPA protection, and I know at times if a player underperforms he can be traded or cut, but looking at it in the simplest of ways, I think that if players knew their jobs were on the line with failed performances, they could get fired, these players would then always come to the ballpark and give 100% every day just like we do in our workplace.

I think the players are way to coddled these days, which means they don't seem to care whether they win or lose, regardless they will collect a pay check.

Interesting question for baseball fans to debate over?passions soap opera

While I agree with you to some extent that salaries have gotten way out of line, I don't think the solution is in tying salaries to a player's individual performance, particularly his statistics. Having played a lot of ball in my life, I can tell you that it is not always the players with the gaudy statistics that are the most valuable. Let's use as an example a player that maybe gets a bonus for hitting 40 home runs in a season. He's got 39 going in to the last game, comes up in the late innings with a man on 1st and nobody out, and the manager wants him to lay down a bunt to move the man to second. Will that player want to do what his manager has asked him, or will he make a cpule lousy attempts, then swing for the fences? Likewise, if a pitcher is within a few strikeouts of getting his bonus, will he perhaps lie to his manager when he instead should tell him he has nothing left and should come out of the game? Baseball is rather unique in that there are times when the proper thing to do is to sacrifice your own statistics for the good of the team. (hitting to the right side with a man on first would be one example of this - you may end up grounding out, but you've done your job)

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