You being unable to understand something doesn't mean I'm being condescending.
Happy new year. I meant your post
here (in the salary cap thread) though you’re right someone else linked the research on declining labor share of revenues.
I don’t think it’s always possible to bridge the gap with money. There’s a divide on this and it comes up time to time — some believe that money’s the deciding factor no matter what. I don’t.
And I think it's a factor in attracting free agents that the media and fans have turned on, varyingly, virtually all players who have signed long-term deals here. Nomar, Price, Sale, Manny, Beckett, Eovaldi, Daisuke, Hanley, Sandoval, Lackey, Castillo, Foulke, Drew. Some of those guys surely were guilty of poor play, but not all of them.
David Price's 118 ERA- over the four years he was here (his age 30-33 seasons)
was better than Jordan Montgomery's 117 ERA+ over his last four (his age 27-30 seasons, more in his prime). Yet the majority of the fan base wanted Price gone, and are going to howl once Montgomery signs elsewhere.
We're seeing it with the frustration with Yamamoto. A lot of posters want to believe that Henry's cheap because Yamamoto signed elsewhere. As if it's not totally reasonable for a Japanese star to prefer the West Coast! By all indications, the Sox genuinely were in on him and assured him the money would be there if he made his decision. They didn't
lead with an offer (so as to give other teams a chance to match it). There were reports that he was going to decide the fit, and "the money would follow," which I took to mean contract terms and formal offer.