Controlling the coaches, though, is another matter and one for which players might have the best insight.
THE park is the site of a local tradition -- a fast-pitch softball game for which players religiously assemble at 6 a.m. on Sundays in March through November.
Chief among player grievances is dissatisfaction with compensation at Grand Slam tournaments, for which players said their share was as low as 5 percent to 15 percent, far lower than the figure in other sports.
As for other changes on the team, Fassel acknowledged that he and General Manager Ernie Accorsi have begun mapping a general strategy for which players to keep and which free agents to pursue.
Argentine clubs, and to a lesser extent the media, responded last year by refusing to reveal the sums for which players are transferred, a move which Ovalles believes has helped achieve a slight reduction in the abduction rate.
India has the immediate headache of securing next month's Indian Premier League, a cricket tournament dusted with Bollywood glamour for which players will reap - if they dare go - the kind of salaries that countless soccer stars take for granted.
Dozens of veteran baseball writers who vote for which players will be inducted into the Hall have said that McGwire's failure to answer questions forced them to assume that he had used steroids.
This has not been a dirty World Cup by any stretch of the imagination, yet the number of cards has been ridiculous, as have been some of the 'offences' for which players have been cautioned.
Often, they're the result of perceived or real missed calls for which players decide to settle the score a bit later in some other way – often a choice from the list in the previous sentence.
Using an assumed year-over-year growth rate of 5 percent for league-wide revenues, the new C.B.A. could result in shortfalls from the current level of players' share dollars ($1.883 billion in 2011-12) of up to $149 million in Year 1 and up to $62 million in Year 2, for which players will be "made whole".
