The Economics of Opting Out Clauses in Baseball

The economics of offering opt outs to players in the context of negotiation are actually pretty straightforward and have been well explored at a variety of sites, including our suspect the athletic. And so I don't quite understand why Jim Bowden has confusion about why teams are offering opt out clauses. It's not because they're being nice. It's laughing because they want to offer less money to the player. The entire point of the piece appears to be that MLB front offices should stop giving players opt outBecause it's generally good for players to have optouts. There's just no other layer to the article really it's odd.