The owners think you’re stupid

“Who, lil’ ‘ole me?”

I’m not going to get into what a bad offseason this has been, or what a bad offseason the last two years have been. We know that teams are starting to spend less on salary, and as Craig Edwards noted at FanGraphs, while overall payroll dropped a percentage point last year, it could be as bad as two percentage points this year.

This isn’t some magical force pushing the league in that direction, and I would also argue that this isn’t some analytics cabal gaming...