Baseball Cultural Artifact Remix
I have always loved sports and my favorite sport has always been baseball. I always felt as if I had a chance to be drafted and make a name for myself as a professional. Unfortunately that didn’t happen and I am forced to look at plan B’s. I had never had an opportunity to write about baseball or sports in general so getting to write about the game I love for this blog has been fun. It makes me think about maybe becoming a beat writer for a major league baseball team someday. Answering questions for fans wondering what move their team is about to make next. Writing this cultural artifact essay has taught me a lot about the sport I love. I learned a lot of useful stats that I never knew about. I never realized how much baseball relies upon countries for foreign players as much as they do. Teams consistently go to foreign nations, sign amateur talents to multiyear contracts and when those players become huge stars they are already locked up to team friendly deals that save the franchise a fortune.
While acquiring foreign talent in Latin America is a popular way of bringing in future stars for a small price it may not continue long term. Signing amateur talent oversees may start to become a rarity as Major League Baseball has put strict limitations on Latin American spending in the new Collective Bargaining agreement. Teams have less than two million to spend on amateur spending so there will be less foreign talent available to buy around the league. It will force teams to scout the talent even more heavily hoping to not make a mistake because there is a cap on spending. That top Latin American talent will still be but the guys at the bottom might be weeded out.
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