I mentioned the other day that we still did not have Opening Day salary numbers from Cot’s Baseball Contracts. Having grown impatient, Sunday afternoon I engaged in the following correspondence with Baseball Prospectus’ Jeff Euston:
| Ron Mock | Sun, Apr 2, 4:01 PM (2 days ago)
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Sun, Apr 2, 10:23 PM (2 days ago)
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Hi Ron,
Yes, I’ll update all the payroll numbers once figures for 0- to 3-year players and late roster additions become public, which likely will be in the next week or so. Until the last five years or so, the commissioner’s office and players’ association would release figures for all players on an Opening Day roster on the first day of the season. But in recent years, it has taken a week or 10 days before the numbers become public. So I’m hoping we get them sometime this week.
Enjoy the season!
— jeff
As you can see, Jeff and I are on a first-name basis. Furthermore, when Jeff gets a question from me, he answers it! Even at 10:23 on a Sunday evening. He apparently realizes the EFL has been around, and a BP customer, since he was maybe 8 years old. He knows on which side his bread is buttered.
That’s the good news. The bad news is the MLB Commissioner’s office and the MLBPA think their bread is buttered on some other side. They think it’s OK to make EFL owners wait before posting Opening Day salaries. I am a little busy this week, otherwise I’d remind them of their place in the scheme of things.
You will, of course, get the 2023 Salary Cap information as soon as we (Jeff and I) extract it from those laggards at MLB and MLBPA.
I’d get the data myself, but “I can’t. I don’t know how it works.”