According to reports, Major League Baseball owners have made a new proposal that would alter the way in which salaries are determined for arbitration-eligible players. In this new proposal, MLB suggested that arbitration-eligible players would have their salaries determined by the WAR (wins above replacement) metric.
During Friday's installment of "Nothing Personal with David Samson," David Samson revealed his thoughts on the new proposal and doesn't believe that it has any chance to happen.
"There is zero chance that WAR will be used to formulate salary for arbitration-eligible players or to get rid of arbitration all together," Samson said. "Arbitration will survive. Free agency, once this collective bargaining agreement has been agreed to, will have nothing to do with how old you are."
As the process currently stands, arbitration-eligible players, which are players that have between three and six years of MLB service time, have their salaries decided by an arbitration panel. The player and the team he plays for submit a proposed salary and the arbitration panel picks one or the other.
If this new proposal were to be put into place, players would measured on their total value in terms of their performance on the field.
