As the marches on toward the new year, fresh off an exhilarating 2021 season, baseball fans are waiting to see what happens once owners and players actually start Alexander Campbell Kids Jersey negotiations. In the meantime, we're left discu sing prospects, the Hall of Fame or the signing flurry that happened right before the unnece sary lockout.We could also discu s player salaries. on payrolls that shows the 2021 player salaries were the lowest they've been since 2016 and that there's been a steady decline since 2017. The 2021 collective player salaries were 4.6 percent lower in 2021 than 2017.To sing out the shortened 2020 season for obvious Calle Jarnkrok Jersey reasons, here's where player compensation ended up from 2016-21:2016: $4.07 billion2017: $4.25B2018: $4.23B2019: $4.22B2021: $4.05BThis will certainly be a point of contention on the player side in negotiations over a new CBA. The mitigating circumstances will include the COVID-19 shutdown of 2020 and then a 60-game season without Filip Forsberg Kids Jersey fans. MLB commi sioner Rob Manfred has said that the teams collectively suffered $3 billion in lo ses in operating income in 2020, though there's no way to verify that since the owners haven't opened up their books. We also don't Mike Fisher Men Jersey know how much they made back in 2021.The players will surely go back to the well with the statement that owners -- while supposedly being the ones who take on "risk" -- wish to privatize profits and socialize lo ses.There's also the decline in collective player salary before the pandemic hit. A good number of players on top end are still getting paid, but the player contention in these CBA talks Cody McLeod Jersey is the players being left behind are those below the elite level, especially the tier of players that never reach free agency or even arbitration. That's the overwhelming majority of the MLBPA. In the meantime, the ones actually left funding this league -- the fans -- are left waiting on the two sides to get together and iron everything out. Here's hoping they do so in January.