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Originally Posted by mrmabry

Thanks Oliver!
So an owner only has 7-8 years of COMPLETE CONTROL over a Player's Career if the owner chooses to use the Player's Cheap Labor in the Major Leagues. But it still sounds like there is nothing stopping an owner from preventing a Player from ever reaching the Majors for 10-11 years if he wants to hold on to that Player for leverage.
To be clear the owner gets 4-5 years of Draft Protection for every player in the Minor Leagues. Then the owner gets anywhere from 3 to 6 years to do what he sees fit with any Player in their organization. That's not near as bad as I thought initially, but it still sickens me to think that an owner has that much control over EVERY SINGLE PLAYER in their organization.
I think the only way forward is to get rid of the 40-man roster in favor of a 28-man roster (at most 30), get rid of option years entirely, keep draft protections, change the Injury-List and Injury-related call-up rules, and prevent teams from signing more than 28 Major League Contracts at any one-time (minus injury-related contracts). A player that has been in the Minors for 4-5 years and is good enough to play in Major Leagues should be able to play on a different team no questions asked.

PS F*** Bryce Harper

Complete nonsense. You don't know what you are talking about. Show me the 7-8 years of control in Josh Donaldson's 6 year career below. I do agree that 6-years to FA is bad but that is 100% the fault of the MLBPA and if they don't have the balls (or care) to fight for it then screw 'em.