MLB players and owners may have come together on an agreement to end the 99-day lockout earlier this month, but the acrimony surrounding many of the dispute’s central financial issues still remains. 
The latest evidence comes from two-time World Series champion outfielder Joc Pederson, who signed a one-year, $6 million free-agent contract with the San Francisco Giants just last week. 
Referencing one of the MLB Players Association’s chief complaints, Pederson called out three MLB teams in particular — the Cleveland Guardians, Pittsburgh Pirates and Baltimore Orioles — on Wednesday for their apparent unwillingness to field competitive rosters.
“Embarrassed for your fan base … be better. If you can’t, sell (your) team to somebody that wants to show the fan base and baseball they’re at least trying to compete,” Pederson tweeted, along with a graphic showing difference of at least $200 million between the top three and the bottom three teams’ total payroll figures.
“Sorry unacceptable,” he added.
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MLB clubs will each receive an estimated $65 million in national television revenue this season. That’s in addition to their local TV deals that vary by market. And since 1996, MLB’s revenue-sharing plan has put a percentage of every team’s local revenue into a pool to be redistributed equally among the 30 teams. (Although that didn’t happen in the COVID-shortened 2020 season.)
In addition, teams that receive revenue-sharing funds are obligated to put that money toward improving the team on the field, something the players have questioned in the past — even filing a grievance about it in 2018. That case has not yet been resolved, although MLB unsuccessfully sought to have it dismissed as part of the new collective bargaining agreement.

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