As you have heard by now, the Red Sox, the MLBPA and MLB have reached an agreement on compensation for the Red Sox coaches and staff. This comes from Nick Cafardo of the Boston Globe.
A major league source said moments ago that all staff associated with the trip will be compensated. Not sure whether it’s $40,000 or even more because the receipts from the trip will be split at the end.
According to the source, in the past, the coaches’ compensation has come from the players’ portion of the pool. This time around the coaches were eliminated from that pool. Did someone not tell the players? That’ll be the interesting question to Sox player reps after the game.
The source said that coaches, and managers as well as the training staff will all be compensated and the final amount is expected to exceed $40,000 per man.
The major league source was miffed that they are being portrayed as the ones who backed out of an agreement.
I am just glad this is all resolved. As much as I am not looking forward to getting up at 5 AM to catch the pregame show, if the Red Sox didn’t play today or better yet decided not to board the plane, it would have been a huge embarrassment to MLB and the Red Sox. But in the end, the two sides got a deal brokered and all’s well that ends well.
Terry Francona talked about the resolution during the ESPN telecast today.
Video from Youk’s press conference after the jump.
thanks ian for the post and video.
No problem at all Keenan. The Youk videos will be up at some point as I am having some trouble with uploading them. I’m just glad this is all done with at this point.
I dont see how it would have embarassed the team. MLB made their bed and as Schilling said they’ve slowly pulled back things they were promised as part of going then they tried to screw the coaches and staff.
Its all on Bud Selig, its just something else that douchebag has fucked up. That moron was actually woried about playing an exhibition game.
no i think it was because espn was broadcasting the game. that makes mlb lose money.