Any time someone gets a raise when they played poorly it looks bad on the surface, but any head shaking about it ignores how the arbitration system works.

The raise Gomez gets is a result of his initial salary being limited by MLB in the first place. If he had made $3MM last year, and his salary was reduced to $1.5MM, he’d make the same amount but people would be happy that he got a big time pay cut.

but then again, these clowns are getting paid millions of dollars to play a game. It’s not really a job. It’s not really representative of the american workplace.

I can’t stand when people get upset that crappy players get raises yet still tolerate the insanity of the salary system in the first place.

Baseball’s not a job. Don’t let them tell you it is. The contracts aren’t anything like tradition labor agreements, the negotiations are totally different than real world salary negotiation.

Good for Carlos. He’s talented enough to have gotten him into this system that rewards grown men for being children for the rest of their life. Yeah, I’m jealous. No, I don’t hate the fact that he got a raise. The money involved in this industry is so stupid that it doesn’t make any sense to get outraged over a player getting a .5M raise, when there’s another player getting paid 28M a year. Whole thing is insane, not based in reality, and not worth getting upset over.