Over the last couple of days, you have probably read about a MLB proposal to the MLBPA which would limit the number of times a player could be optioned to the minor leagues. On its face this sounds good — players would potentially make more money if they couldn’t be jerked up and down on the so-called “Iowa Shuttle” more than five times a year, the number in the proposal.
But as Jeff Passan of ESPN wrote, that wasn’t all that was in MLB’s proposal, and it was tied to another one, as BCB’s Sara Sanchez noted here yesterday:
MLB is willing to limit the number of times a player can be optioned.