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Newsweek<\/a>: Pittsburgh Pirates outfielder reveals having a very specific no-trade clause; refusing to go to the Yankees, Mets, Blue Jays, Dodgers, Giants or Padres<\/span><\/p>\n Call me na\u00efve, but I\u2019ve always had the belief that it\u2019s probably in our best interests to not put our employability at any sort of disadvantage, by doing things like putting in legal writing, refusal to go work for specific employers.\u00a0 I have a wife and kids, and when the day is over, my obligations is to provide and support and I don\u2019t really think I\u2019m above any particular task or duty in order to accomplish such.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Sure, there are lots of things I\u2019d rather not do, or places or companies that I\u2019d probably hope to have a superior alternative to, but when push comes to shove, I\u2019ll shovel shit eight hours a day if it meant being able to provide for my family, and do my best to be the absolute best at it.<\/span><\/p>\n Then again, I am not a professional athlete, paid exorbitant amounts of money to play sports originating from children\u2019s games.\u00a0 I have not lost touch with poverty, living paycheck to paycheck, and the constant vigilance of every penny spent.<\/span><\/p>\n I am not Pittsburgh Pirates outfielder, Bryan Reynolds, who for whatever reason is very adamant about not wanting to play for a specific list of teams, effectively implying to 1\/5 of Major League Baseball that he\u2019d rather be unemployed than play for any of them.\u00a0 Which to someone like me, is mind-blowing that any player would have no-trade clauses in the first place, because unless they\u2019re true MVP-caliber talent (which Reynolds is not), they\u2019re not going to be endearing themselves to organizations by being inflexible.<\/span><\/p>\n What the internet is fascinated by is the list of teams; typically lots of guys who have had no-trade clauses in the past, they typically tend to list off teams generally perceived negatively by the masses; be it that they\u2019re cheap teams, not good teams, in smaller markets, or any combination of the above.\u00a0 After all, professional athletes play to win, to make money, enjoy their lives, or, any combination of the above.<\/span><\/p>\n But the teams Reynolds listed: the Yankees, Mets, Blue Jays, Dodgers, Giants and Padres \u2013 very few of the negatives really apply to them, and very much of the positives do.\u00a0 Currently, all of them are either division leaders or are very much in the postseason picture, and they\u2019re all squads based out of major New York and California markets or Toronto.\u00a0 All of these teams are very liberal with their spending and all have budgets north of the median MLB payroll.<\/span><\/p>\n The immediate joke was that Bryan Reynolds has no actual desire to win, or be a part of a championship squad, seeing as how he plays for the perpetually middling Pittsburgh Pirates, and seems to only refuse to go to squads known for contending.\u00a0 And the funniest thing is that when called out for such, by once-peers, Reynolds has gone out of his way to defend himself on the internet<\/a>, validating the idea that he does in fact pay attention to the internet and what others might be saying about him, thus making him owned, but that\u2019s beside the point.<\/span><\/p>\n Nerds on the internet were quick to point out that the list of teams Reynolds refuses accept trades to, correlates with high income tax rates, which New York and California do have, and Toronto being in Canada, is subject to massive taxation, which I guess does suck for an American paying Canadian taxes and getting no benefits for it.<\/span><\/p>\n However, Bryan Reynolds is a professional athlete, making professional athlete money, netting $12.25M this season and will continue to make more, over the next five years, as he signed an eight-year, $108M deal back in 2023.\u00a0 Yes, it sucks to know that 40-50% of your income is immediately lost to Uncle Sam, but when the day is over, he\u2019s still pulling in $6M+ a year after that motherfucker takes his pound of flesh. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n It\u2019s hard to feel much empathy for any professional athlete making millions of dollars to play children\u2019s games, and it\u2019s extra puzzling how stingy it would be if income taxes really were the reason why he would block a trade to six of the upper tier of MLB franchises, where he would not only continue to make the contractually obligated millions he\u2019s owed, but he could improve his general brand and parlay it into higher earning opportunities in stronger markets.<\/span><\/p>\n What\u2019s funny to me however, is the fact that I don\u2019t know if it\u2019s ignorance or maybe he only does want to play for non-contending losers, but the Oakland<\/span> Las Vegas<\/span> Sacramento<\/span> The A\u2019s are not on his list.\u00a0 The Dodgers, Padres and Giants being on it makes it sound like he\u2019s avoiding California, but for the next three years, the A\u2019s are still in the state, playing in a very fitting minor league ballpark, considering how the franchise is operated, and it would be hilarious if Bryan Reynolds were to get shipped out there, and his no-trade clause wouldn\u2019t be able to prevent it from happening.\u00a0 He would then be subject to California\u2019s 13.3% income tax rate, and he\u2019d be playing in a minor league ballpark, for a glorified minor league franchise.<\/span><\/p>\n Furthermore, I knew nothing about the guy before finding out about this story, but it\u2019s interesting to deduce his journey through his statistics alone.\u00a0 He debuted in 2019, had three well above average seasons with one injury-marred flop in the middle, but impressive enough to make the Pirates offer him a huge nine-figure deal to buy out his arbitration seasons and secure him for the next eight.\u00a0 And in classic, got-the-bag player performance, he has two okay seasons but aren\u2019t even close to the heights he reached in his 6.0 bWAR 2021 season, but apparently the man has fallen off a cliff in this 2025 season, already worth a horrendous -0.7 bWAR at the time I\u2019m writing this.<\/span><\/p>\n He’s still going to be due nearly $75M over the next six seasons, and considering the downward trend he\u2019s headed now, it\u2019ll probably be the last big money he\u2019s going to make in his career, so I suppose he should be trying his best to avoid getting shipped off to somewhere where nearly half of it is going to be assimilated by the IRS.<\/span><\/p>\n Either way, my final word on Bryan Reynolds is that man be dumb, blacklisting some of the richest and contending teams in the league.\u00a0 There\u2019s nothing inherently wrong with being in it just to make money, but me personally, anyone who doesn\u2019t want to win while getting rich is missing something, and I\u2019d rather them get the fuck out and make way for someone who wants everything including the bag.<\/span><\/p>\n When the Pirates do inevitably move him, because he still fits the mold of a good trade chip, I hope he gets shipped off to The A\u2019s, Rockies, White Sox, Marlins or some other shitty mid franchise who have no desire to win.\u00a0 To which, at this point in time, the Braves would actually be a club that might work with him, but here\u2019s hoping that doesn\u2019t happen, because I sure as fuck don\u2019t want a dork like him.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Newsweek: Pittsburgh Pirates outfielder reveals having a very specific no-trade clause; refusing to go to the Yankees, Mets, Blue Jays, Dodgers, Giants or Padres Call me na\u00efve, but I\u2019ve always had the belief that it\u2019s probably in our best interests to not put our employability at any sort of disadvantage, by doing things like putting … Continue reading Professional athlete 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