The main thing is that the owners will do whatever they can to make the market look bad. I suppose they could always non tender someone then hope to sign them as a FA later? Not entirely sure about that though. Players signed some pretty low one year deals before last season and those contracts were a lot lower than they would have received in arbitration.

The interesting thing will be what happens after players are non tendered. If a slew of teams later try to resign those players as FA’s then the players union will cry collusion. And they would probably be right. Especially if some quality players don’t get a lot of offers from other teams.

are really playing up the bad economy thing. Even in LA where it was revealed, but not confirmed, that McCourts net worth is close to $1.2 billion, yet LA has given up prospects so they didn’t have to take on salary in trades in the last few years. Carlos Santana’s bat would look better in the LA lineup that Martin’s at this point.