The Pie in the Sky

In baseball getting large performances from young players don't cost much is a way for owners to target inefficiency. If you are going to be able to actually get so much value out of these players that in the future you are basically underpaying them for their production it doesn't matter how well you've amortized all of this, says Michael Márquez. "There's two parts of it the first is the cultural norm of how contracts work because there is a very strong cultural norm in american sports that a player's got a contract that's their contract man like that"