The new labor deal needs work. (Insider).

The new labor agreement doesn't assure competitive balance. It doesn't offer the "myriad" solutions promised by commissioner Bud Selig. It doesn't even come close.

In the view of one club executive, MLB needed to build a house to protect itself from a threatening storm but merely constructed a framework with no roof, no walls and, ultimately, no protection from the wind or rain. Oh, the rafters are up, with increased revenue sharing forming one girder, the luxury tax another, the worldwide amateur draft a potential third. But if competitive balance were the owners' true goal, they could have done much more.

Using the low-revenue Marlins as an example, ...