Logan Morrison Files Grievance
The Logan Morrison saga continues, as it was learned Thursday afternoon that the outfielder filed a grievance on the grounds of discipline without just cause.
Morrison believes he was unjustly demoted to the minor leagues on August 13 and took action to, in his paraphrased words, stand for what’s right. Though news of the filed grievance broke Thursday afternoon, it was actually filed on August 25, two days after he rejoined the major league team.
While the reasons the Marlins directly gave Morrison regarding his mid-August demotion were patently absurd, the demotion itself might not have been, which muddies these waters. Morrison probably doesn’t have a leg to stand on here, though perhaps his intentions go beyond merely — again, his words — protecting the rights of guys who have been in the league for a long time.
First, take a trip back to August 13, to get a frame of reference for the grievance. Morrison was demoted following a game in which he batted third. Earlier that day, he missed a meet-and-greet event with fans. Morrison had heard from team union representative Wes Helms that he didn’t have to attend.
Earlier this season, Morrison ripped Hanley Ramirez in front of the team. The ripping came shortly after Jack McKeon took over as manager and was intended to send Ramirez the message that he wasn’t above the team. Morrison implied that Hanley’s poor season could be directly attributable to his tardiness.
When hitting coach John Mallee was fired in June, he essentially did everything he could to criticize team ownership without naming names. Quite the laundry list of controversy for a somewhat unheralded prospect without a prior knack for controversy, who hasn’t come anywhere near establishing himself in the majors. While teams can put up with controversy if on-field results can’t be ignored, Morrison is a poor defender at a corner outfield position with a career .355 wOBA — solid but not overwhelming.
Further, it was learned that Morrison didn’t even stay for the entire demotion meeting, exiting the office upon hearing the Marlins’ reasons: primarily, his .249 batting average. Now, the Marlins might not be the most progressive team in history, but they surely knew Morrison’s skill-set extended beyond his simple batting average. However, as Dave Cameron argued at the time, failing to tell Morrison the true reasons likely set this whole tidal wave in motion.
Really, the consensus on the subject tended to boil down to one opinion: the demotion probably made sense given all that transpired during the year, but the team should have been upfront with him. He probably did, as Larry Beinfest put it, need to work on all aspects of being a major leaguer. They just didn’t tell him that.
That opinion made sense given what was known at the time. Now, however, it seems that Morrison would have caused a stir even if the Marlins were upfront about the reasons for his demotion. Had they told him that their organization prides itself on doing things the right way, or the players presenting themselves in the most appropriate fashion, it’s hard to imagine him asking for a cup of tea as they expand their viewpoint as opposed to storming off. He didn’t want to be demoted, felt his on-the-field performance justified his spot on the major league roster, and there was no margin for error.
Then again, the thought of the Marlins organization doing things the right way is laughable. Despite two World Series titles in 1997 and 2003, the Marlins are universally panned as one of the worst organizations in baseball. Morrison isn’t ignorant to that widespread belief, and fell victim to its operating protocol when being demoted. In all likelihood, the grievance was filed as a means of getting out of the organization.
He’s too talented and cheap for the Marlins to try and trade him. But he probably doesn’t want to spend the next five or six seasons playing for an organization that would discipline a player for tweeting disappointment about a hitting coach being fired. Or for one that would get angry at his standing up to a superstar for perceived detrimental conduct.
Unfortunately for him, there aren’t many teams like that in the major leagues. No, most other teams wouldn’t demote him following a controversial tweet, but they would assuredly scold him. And what grounds does a 24-year old with about one full season of major league service have in calling out the face of the franchise? Ironically, the one manager who might put up with that is Ozzie Guillen, who many feel could be traded for Morrison.
It’s easy to side with Morrison given his gregarious nature but he was very clearly wrong in many of the issues that surfaced this season, which shouldn’t be ignored.
If he wants out of an organization unlikely to trade him, filing a grievance is actually an interesting tactic. The process could take up to a year, and could end in front of an arbiter. From a monetary standpoint, Morrison would seek lost wages and interest on those wages for the amount of major league compensation he lost as a result of spending a little over a week in the minors. But the money isn’t his number one priority in filing the grievance. Before bringing an arbiter in, the two sides can work out a settlement.
At this point, it seems both sides would prefer to put the mess behind them. Morrison will ‘drop the charges’, they’ll work out a trade as part of the settlement, or an arbiter will have to decide a potentially historic case. If he wants out, this is an interesting way to do it. It isn’t a very dignified way to do it, but it’s certainly a different type of way to accomplish his goal.
I highly doubt that a settlement involving accommodating Morrison’s desire to be traded is at all likely. MLB is going to be applying a lot of pressure on the Marlins to stand their ground and defend the move given that the outcome of this incident could set a precedent. And the last thing that MLB wants to see happen is for pre-FA players to gain any more leverage than they already have.
The problem for the Marlins/MLB is that all the evidence points to the demotion being “discipline without just cause”. He batted 3rd the day before he got sent down, hit under .200 in the minors, and then was back hitting 3rd in the majors 10 days later. That essentially refutes anything they can say about the demotion being performance-related (if it was they would’ve dropped him in the order and/or left him in the minors longer). Add in the surrounding circumstances regarding Wes Helms and the meet and greet the day of the demotion, and it seems like it was purely punitive.
If I were the head of the MLBPA, I would be pushing him to maintain the grievance with this fact pattern.
I agree that the Marlins are likely to lose. But I think that MLB will ultimately decide that such a decision will cause fewer problems down the line (essentially, it will cause teams to be more circumspect about off-field demotions) than providing the agents of per-FA players any sort of leverage to attempt to force a trade to another organization. In other words, losing in arbitration and having to pay 10 days worth of pay is the least bad option from MLB’s perspective. Providing an avenue outside of the framework of the CBA that increases a per-FA player’s mobility (and weakening the team’ control) poses a more serious threat.
Although Logan can be rather brash at times, I, as a fan, appreciate it. He is a very likable guy that is also very talented when it comes to my favorite game. If the Marlins management cannot accept criticism from one of their employees, they should not be in a management position. Any job can be ruined by horrible management, even baseball.
Everything the Marlins have done right in their history is 100% due to luck. Everything. The management is laughable at best who can identify talent if the player hit them in the face with a bat and the owner is a joke who seems to hate good baseball.
Logan lives his life away from baseball how he sees fit. He is an employee, not a slave. Unfortunately, the Marlins view a hobby of his, Twitter, as an unfit representation of Logan and the organization. If they truly feel that the hobby makes him an inferior player and person, they should fire him (release or trade him) like any other real world employer would.
If the Marlins screw this up and the most relate-able player on my favorite team (and in baseball for that matter) ends up being shipped off at the end of all this, I will finally say no more and dump the Marlins. I have loved rooting for that team, but the management obviously does not care about fans’ interests.
Sorry… just noticed a typo:
“The management is laughable at best who cannot identify talent if the player hit them in the face with a bat…”
Not to excuse the Marlins actions here, but I DO think that management has a right to ask their employees to refrain from *public* criticism of the organization. The lines of public vs. private criticism can get a bit blurred with Twitter and social media, as well as the fact that part of the job description for a baseball player is to answer questions from reporters before and after each game. While I personally feel like the Marlins action in firing the hitting coach was a stupid reactionary move, there is a line that shouldn’t be crossed when an employee is talking to reporters.
I agree, they do have the right, but do not have the power to enforce it other than firing the player.
I have to agree with this statement. If I were to bash my company on facebook or twitter, they have grounds to fire me.
@ drabidea: I suspect that you work as an at-will employee. Morrison’s status is fundamentally different, in that he has a union contract that constrains both the grounds upon and the means by which he can be disciplined.
Demoting a player for off-field performance may be viewed by the arbiter as inconsistent with the current collective bargaining agreement (from my limited understanding of it, it is). Asking the MLBPA to file a grievance on his behalf is within his rights. The issue is whether going to the mat over 10 days of MLB pay is really in his long-term interest, as I suspect that he has impaired his future marketability to some degree by taking this action.
It is important to keep in mind that this is an employee with an effective national non-compete clause who is vastly underpaid (relative to actual production). In that context, punishment for actions outside of the Marlin’s property are just jerky and petty.
That said, he is damaging his value once (if) he reaches free agency, and it is the Marlins front office’s job to help him be a better off the field player, both for their organization to work well and to help him be a better MLB player.
it’s not about right or wrong. it’s about what language is in the players contract and the labour agreement.
i’ve skimmed the last labour agreement a while back and don’t remember anything that go against LoMo. that said, i doubt any of us have seen his detailed player contract. what is said in those doc’s and case law will determine it.
I’m not entirely sure that Guillen would support it. When Swisher began to pout towards the end of the 2008 season, he was run out of town. The White Sox clubhouse isn’t exactly friendly to vocal young players.
Swisher was traded because he sucked, not for being vocal. But being a pouty loser did make everyone hate him more.
He could have survived having a shit year if he hadn’t completely pissed off the clubhouse.
I wish some players on my favorite team could have a shit years where they had an iso of 0.190.
hanley HR totals for future seasons:
2012- 19
2013-15
2014-20
2015-11
2016-9
2017-6
2018-4
he just sucks. get over it lomo.
Don’t worry Marlins fans, Loria and Samson want more of a say in personnel decisions, things will get better!
It’s worth mentioning, since we’re on the subject, that according to LoMo the Marlins didn’t bother contacting him while he was in the minors to a) try again to explain why he was sent down, and/or b) explain what he needed to work on in terms of ‘being a major leaguer’.
As described on the night he returned to the majors:
“When asked if he has talked to anybody in the organization since the demotion, Morrison said, “I haven’t talked to anybody. I didn’t really care.”
When asked why he believes he was send down, Morrison said, “I have no idea.”
When asked what was accomplished by him being in New Orleans for 10 days, Morrison said, “I don’t know.”
When asked to describe his relationship with the organization, Morrison said, “I’m the baseball player and they provide the uniform.”
http://blogs.palmbeachpost.com/marlins/2011/08/24/logan-morrison-returns-wondering-why-he-spend-10-days-in-new-orleans/
I don’t see any reason why anyone with a brain and MLB-ready talent would want to stick around there.
Not going to comment about how a number of people on here are going to defend Morrison no matter what. His conduct wouldn’t fly in 99% of workplaces, especially at a time when polls show most people don’t feel like they have any job security and the Great Recession obviously never ended. I personally really resent Morrison.
On the other hand I need to play devil’s advocate regarding the “universal” belief that the Marlins org is the worst in baseball. Did not Dan Uggla practically beg them to stay, and had a great relationship with the front office? I’m guessing that in most FG writers’ minds, a Japanese owned team that is purely an investment, with a much worse track record than the Marlins, including in public relations (see rapist relief pitcher), is near the top. I’m not arguing that the Marlins are not universally the worst run team in the minds of interweb baseball writers.
The main point, covered well in the article, is that Logan Morrison has initiated a LEGAL process, which is a whole different ballgame. Imagine that your employer does something equivalent to what the Marlins did with Logan, and you walked out of the room after the first sentence. Now, let’s imagine that your employer is extremely understanding and that you wouldn’t be fired on the spot. How on earth to you figure to file a grievance or appeal their decision, when you didn’t even stick around to hear it? From a legal standpoint, this is an incredibly stupid decision on Morrison’s part. The Marlins can go into this legal proceeding with a long list of rationale. They can hire a stat geek to break down his left/right splits, provide heat maps and video demonstrations, and present all of that as evidence that supported their rationale. And Morrison has absolutely no ability whatsoever to rebut any of it. Because he is an ass, and walked out of the room.
I really have to wonder if this episode is a sign of things to come with the MLBPA. I really, really, really doubt very highly that Don Fehr would not have called this big baby up and made it clear that he was to stand down. I can’t believe that given the circumstances of the case Fehr would let the issue get anywhere near an official legal process, where Morrison is going to get absolutely crushed.
You do realize that you can’t analogize pro sports to other jobs. YOU can work anywhere you choose (assuming you could get hired), the players can’t. There is a reason pro sports leagues are afraid of antitrust lawsuits.
Imagine being unilaterally assigned to an organization where you are underpaid with a boss that hates you and overpaid lazy co-workers you don’t get along with, and you have to work there for 6+ years in the prime of your career with no alternative.
Physicians are also not fully in control of what practice area they go into. They are essentially slaves for the first 5+ years of their careers. But unlike ballplayers, we sue them simply for being human rather than gods or shamen, and create vast regulatory regimes designed in large part to keep them from ever achieving the income most of them deserve. Meanwhile, major league players are treated like royalty who can do no wrong.
Here’s another one: soldiers. LoMo likes to talk up his support of the troops. Imagine having to rely on a lazy puke to cover your backside in a firefight, as opposed to not running out ground balls. This entire defense of LoMo is such a complete fail.
Hilarious. Some people just don’t get it, and from what I can tell, you’re so far off that you never will… keep trolling and winning in your own mind.
One important difference between Morrison’s case and the comparison you make to a typical work environment is that Morrison’s employer is in no way being “extremely understanding” by not firing him. Nothing could be more in Morrison’s interest than for the Marlins to fire him. As the article points out, that is probably the outcome he is hoping for from filing the grievance.
It is all about MLB rules, which are not only obviously different from at-will employees but also very different from most other union contracts. It is harder to fire an auto-worker than to fire Morrison… but an auto-worker can leave his job at will and seek employment elsewhere, whereas Morrison is captive until he accumulates enough service time. If Morrison were released, he would probably not hit the jackpot but he would almost certainly be paid as a ~1WAR player with upside… probably a 5X+ raise over the MLB minimum he is currently owed for another 2 seasons…
“His conduct wouldn’t fly in 99% of workplaces, especially at a time when polls show most people don’t feel like they have any job security and the Great Recession obviously never ended. I personally really resent Morrison.”
I’m confused by this line. Are you saying you resent him because he has better job security then you? If that’s the case, it’s not Morrison’s fault that he has a better job then you (and for all of us comenting I presume). If somebody doen’t feel like they have job security in their current position, they should try to find a new job or find a new profession. We are not forced to do what we do everyday for a living and even Morrison can find a new job if he doesn’t like the outcome of his case.
Lets stop blaming/hating/resenting people who have better jobs then others and that utilize the privileges their employer offers.
“The Marlins can go into this legal proceeding with a long list of rationale. They can hire a stat geek to break down his left/right splits, provide heat maps and video demonstrations, and present all of that as evidence that supported their rationale. ‘
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and you really think the Marlins are going to do any of this?
I find it unlikely that a front office that has shown as much baseball related incompetence as the Marlins have, will go to those lengths over a few thousand dollars.
and Morrison will not “get crushed” in the proceedings. Youre just flat out wrong about that. He has a great chance of winning his case, if a resolution is not agreed to before hand.
Did you even read the article or any of the comments?
-He batted 3rd for the Marlins the day before he was demoted.
-He was told his demotion was based on his performance.
-He batted under .200 while in the minors.
-10 days later he was recalled and immediately slotted back into the 3-hole.
And you dont see anything that could possibly present a problem for the Marlins with that sequence?
LoMo to Phils for…. Dom Brown?
lol good chuckle
If Morrison is traded away as a result of this, I have to imagine whoever gets him will be getting a good deal.
Ozzie for LoMo. Best.Trade.Ever.
Good article, but one quibble: Logan Morrison wasn’t unheralded. The guy was the Marlins’ consensus 3rd best prospect going into the 2009 season (behind only Maybin and Stanton) and consensus 2nd best prospect going into 2010 (behind Stanton). Baseball America had him ranked as the 18th and 20th best prospect in baseball in those two years. He was a very well known prospect.
Where did the article say that he was unheralded? It said he’s in his first full season with okay numbers and somehow thinks that put him in a position to publicly call out the face of the franchise, who has proven himself at the MLB level for a few seasons now.
Are you arguing that top prospects should be allowed to dictate their position on a MLB roster? Because I think Brandon Wood and many others would be very interested to hear the full rationale.
Umm..6th paragraph, second sentence actually.
“Quite the laundry list of controversy for an >>unheralded<< prospect without a prior knack for controversy,"
Ah jeez, well that was an error as Seidman noted. Second paragraph stands.
For your 2nd paragraph, the draft/service time rules probably violate antitrust laws, should a court/Congress choose to apply them.
Thanks for the information, Sean. I knew he was highly ranked relative to the Marlins but didn’t think he was widely considered a can’t-miss prospect across baseball.
wasn’t LoMo confronting Hanley considered by most to be a good thing at the time? maybe i’m conflating the opinions of the public with those within the Marlins org, but i remember a lot of people suggesting that LoMo was demonstrating the kind of clubhouse leadership in pretty stark contrast to Hanley by confronting him like that. did the Marlins suggest that they thought the confrontation was a poor move or something?
The people who thought it was a good thing are likely the same people who think pitcher wins are the best evaluative tool.
Why do you say that? It has been pretty widely reported that Ramirez has backslid into his previous attitude problems this season. Are you saying no player should have stood up to him?
What? Why would that group of people overlap or correlate? At all?
The Marlins don’t pay this guy a lot of money (yes major league minnimum is a lot of money to almost every worker in the US) for his opinion, they pay him to play baseball. He can keep his opinions private.
And he receives his paycheque to play baseball, not to be nice to his bosses.
Don’t know about you, but every job I’ve ever had, being polite to the boss was one of the paycheque-receiving conditions.
Every job I’ve ever had I was free to quit and seek employment with a competitor on the free market. Not locked in for 6 years in a version of indentured servitude called the reserve clause.
Are there actually any rules on when a player can be legitimately demoted (not talking about options or anything like that, but about whena player who can be sent to the minors actually gets sent down), or is it entirely up to teams’ discretion?
LoMoBlueJays!
They could use an upgrade at 1B… LoMo isn’t really a LF anyway.
To assume he wants to be traded is quite a leap is it not? After all, his all-important twitter handle is @lomoMARLINS. I’ve yet to see evidence that he actually has done anything unjustly – he skipped the ticket holder deal because they strung him out earlier in the day and didn’t support his charity bowling deal earlier in the week. I’m 100% behind Morrison on this deal, but I don’t think he wants out of Miami.
Twitter IDs are changeable… very changeable.
First 2 months of the season:
320/406/574
Next 2.5 months until the demotion:
213/285/408
A subpar baserunner, who can’t field, playing a premium offensive position, with a crappy attitude, putting up those kinds of numbers from June to August just might deserve a demotion. He wouldn’t be the first player in baseball who has tons of talent, goes into a funk, and then is sent back to the minors to work on things. I don’t know that I would have sent him down but there is clearly justification here.
I can’t see how the Marlins lose this case.
On a side note – the whole move is stupid. I’d venture to guess that this will cost Morrison a lot more than reduced wages for 10 days. The Marlins have so much control over Morrison over the next 5+ years. Why would you want to jerk their chain and potentially turn other clubs off on your attitude. Morrison may win tens of thousands of dollars … but it could easily cost him millions in the long run.
How can the Marlins hit him third the very day they decide he should get sent down for performance? That’s talking out of both sides of ones’ mouth.
Gabby Sanchez’s First 2 months of the season:
321/407/519
from June 1 to Lomo’s Aug 13th demotion:
223/311/364
why Logan and not Gabby?
See Denny’s point. Furthermore, the fact that they called him up after 10 days despite no improved performance actually hurts their case.
I’ll take him on the Mets in a heartbeat.
Paul wrote: “Not going to comment about how a number of people on here are going to defend Morrison no matter what…” and followed it with a paragraph commenting on exactly the issue he claimed he wouldn’t touch.
That bugs me enough that I have to comment. It’s cowardly argumentation Paul, exactly the type used by Glen Beck, for instance, who technically avoids lies by saying “I’m not saying that XXX, but could XXX be the case? Shouldn’t someone be asking about XXX?”
I’m subtracting one from your universal karma. That will take years to earn back.
I know this is going to really irritate you, but I am not going to reply to the first two paragraphs of your rant, which are both incorrect and fatuous.
However, I must say that if you had any idea how karma works, you would know that YOU have no ability whatsoever to “deduct” someone else’s “karma credits.” Having said that, I’m not too worried that making a factual argument is a mortal sin, which is much more of a concern to me than karma. Nor is it a mortal sin to offend the sensibilities of angst-ridden seventh graders. I will be concerned with much greater flaws when I get in line for communion this Sunday.
Paul,
you’re already 0 for 3 today.
Might be time to take a break
Cubs! You have to capitolize!
Awesome, unintended, humor.
If Chicago doesn’t need him in left field, perhaps they can use him in spring field.
Logan for Rajai Davis. Welcome to the Jays!
Seidman should avoid moral reasoning since he is obviously so bad at it. The context clearly demonstrates that the Marlins were using their power to capriciously target Morrison. No other interpretation of the events is possible. Anyone offering an other interpretation is engaging in some kind of agenda.
In the world of good people the capricious and arbitrary use of power to target a defenseless individual is a bad thing.
What Morrision is doing takes great character and courage. He has nothing to gain and a lot to lose. I applaud him for it. The Marlins used their power over him in an arbitrary and capricious way and he’s standing up for himself. Good for him.
Well done.
I’m not really sure if your serious but if you are you know absolutely nothing about Logan Morrision.
I am serious. And don’t call yourself ‘Not Really’. Nobody names their kid that. Ruins your credibility.
What I want to know, and perhaps the issue being adjudicated, is whether teams have a right to demote players for any reason they want. Sure, if the system is working correctly, and all sides are acting “reasonably” that shouldn’t be an issue, but obviously that does not happen.
Bottom line: Can a team demote a player for any reason they want? If they can’t, what reasons are acceptable?
I hope this guess resolved in the LoMo case, although my guess is it won’t since it is such a touchy issue.
I think we can agree on one thing. This entire discussion makes us super-excited to re-watch “Turk 182!” as soon as possible.
This entire thing is getting very exiting. I don’t really get the argument about LoMo calling out Hanley. In football or basketball I might agree that he should shut up until he earns some respect, but not baseball.
Every guy in that locker room worked the minor league grind to get to the majors, and every one of them wants to win. If someone is acting like they don’t want to win then its any player’s right to call him on it. He hasn’t backed down and he hasn’t apologized. He is unapologetically himself, and anybody who resents him or asks him to shut up and play ball is just jealous they don’t have the intestinal fortitude to stand up and open their own mouths when they see something they don’t agree with.
LoMo seems more concerned with his treatment than his performance. That part bothers me.
The consensus here seems to be that LoMo is so valuable that you can’t do without him. That his behavior must be tolerated because of his performance/talent on the field. I’m not necessarily seeing the last part …
[1] His defensive metrics were not good in ’10, and were even worse in ’11.
[2] His base running metrics also are decreasing (and negative).
[3] Despite playing almost full time in ’11, his performance is closer to replacement level than it is league average.
750 PA’s: fWAR = 2.0, brWAR = 1.2
Obviously LoMo can do whatever he wants, my preference would be for him to shut up and play (and play well … or at least better).
He’s creating a lot of attention, and very little of it is coming from on-field performance.
My argument isn’t that he’s stellar. My reading of the situation though, is that he woldn’t have been sent down if not for off the field stuff. Reasonable question: Is it fair to send a player down for reasons unrelated to his performance? If not, then what are acceptable reasons?
The Braves will be perfectly happy to take Logan if the Marlins trade him. We can offer Jose Constanza, who is batting .317 and has more time left on his arbitration clock.
Seriously, the whole situation seems that Morrison wants to get out of Florida by hook or crook. This is going to end up exactly like the Colby Rasmus situation.
How can people actually defend Morrison?
Where else can your employer discipline you and you get to file a grievance?
Unions, got to love them.
I like the Marlins tactic. So what if they lose? Who ever signs your paycheck ultimately gets the last laugh.
You’re missing the “without just cause” qualifier in the cause of action. Also, Morrison has little, if anything, to lose and much more to gain personally.
I think most people think that Morrison is an idiot, but the Marlins are the ones that control the situation, and they are not handling it admirably.
Smallball Tony,
If your employer reduced your pay to 1/17th (LoMo makes 36.67k a month in MLB and minimum for AAA players is 2,150 a month, since he didn’t accrue a full year of time in AAA then they can still pay him this, I don’t see why they’d pay him much more) of what you normally make for ten days, how would you feel? And if they did it because they didn’t like your attitude and that you skipped out on a voluntary task?
If my employer reduced my pay by that same margin then I could absolutely file a grievance, because they would be paying me below minimum wage. Everyone making less than $125 an hour falls into this category, actually.
You’re talking about an owner who fired his manager–in the same season he won manager of the year no less–because said manager had the nerve to tell him to stop yelling at the umpire during a game. Loria has an extremely thin skin and shaky ego for someone who’s been making money like no tomorrow off his team. I love Morrison–he plays every play like it means his whole season, he plays hurt, he plays wherever he’s told to play, he never complains or makes excuses, and I wish there were more people on this team with the stones to tell Hanley what a lazy, hot-dogging sack of s–t he is.
The team doesn’t deserve him, and with this move he’s pretty much guaranteed that they’ll give him away to some other lucky franchise.
I think most of the Anti-Morrison sentiment, judging from the comments, seem to be coming from a typically Anti-Union-type crowd. When you have the ability to get the type of job that affords you the securities someone of your performance level deserves, you have EARNED the right to exercise whatever means are available to you to be sure your rights are not being trampled by some org. trying to make a point. You have EARNED the right to be protected from that. Don’t like it? Go get a union job.
It was broken down so easily, that there is NO dispute. The ONLY chance the Marlins had is if they claimed the demotion was NOT performance related, but was a disciplinary/training/conditioning thing (mental or physical). Saying it was performance related is what is going to screw them, legally, if it goes before any ADR. I can virtually assure that.
I’m tired of the employee/employer narrative that accompanies articles like this (in the comments). Major leaguers are nothing like you. Quit pretending they are. Put another way, most people with a skill set to earn millions of dollars don’t have to act like lemmings. And luckily for Morrison, the powerful mlbpa means he doesn’t either.
Jimmy, I’ve read players on the 40 man roster make a minimum of 90k not the AAA 2150 a month number.
I view MLB as the employer and each team as an extension of that enterprise. Logan is free to pursue employment outside of MLB. Afterall can’t MLB discipline his actions?
Don’t know that there’s a single person here actually commenting on the situation.
“I hate Republicans, therefore Morrison’s right!!!”
“I hate Democrats, therefore Morrison’s wrong!!!”
“I hate Loria, therefore Morrison’s right!!!”
You forgot mine:
“I hate everyone, and Morrison’s right!”
;-)
You forgot to read any of the comments, too.
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