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[QUOTE="sutomcat, post: 3681810, member: 27"]
Yes, values of the franchises have increased.  But that doesn't help them pay the payroll.

If you have a house and on paper, it is worth 10% more than when you bought it, awesome.  It doesn't help you much though if your mortgage is more than you can afford to pay each month.

Most of the player contracts are guaranteed.  The owners can't reduce these because revenue is down by 40%.  One area they can control, to some extent anyway, is how much they spend on new contracts (i.e. free agents).  That is why the market is depressed and why the players who took the gamble to become free agents are going to, for the most part anyway, get burned this time around.

I am not pro owner.  Don't have a dog in this fight.

Just saying when your revenues go down drastically and your costs increase (COVID costs the owners a lot of extra money), it is going to have an effect.  The agents who are trying to set the prices for their players are living in fantasyland asking for record level money.  It isn't going to happen.  This is a very bad offseason to be a free agent.
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