The players actually wasted no time returning serve in the current negotiations, sending back a proposal Monday night that, while owners said was nothing new, really did make a step toward some sort of compromise. The players wanted to start the season on July 10 and run through October 11, then have expanded playoffs. While [...]
Let me preface this, as I do often when ownership comes up, with the following statements. I’m glad that the DeWitts are in charge of the Cardinals. I most definitely appreciate their tenure as owners, as it is not a coincidence it comes at the same time as the best stretch of baseball in Cardinal [...]
When there was no movement on the return of baseball over the weekend, there was hope that maybe the beginning of the week would bring something. And it did! Just not anything real useful. MLB suggested a plan where the players get 75% of the pro-rata salaries over 76 games. Which, while not full pro-rata [...]
With another weekend in the books and (as I write this Sunday afternoon) nothing to show for it in regards to labor peace and an actual season, it’s time again to dive into the past to check out a game from this date in the past. We’ve done 1996 and 2004, so this time let’s [...]
I never cared for Bud Selig as commissioner. There were very few decisions that he made that I agreed with and honestly felt like he stayed too long. Plus there was that whole “cancelled the World Series” thing. Usually when someone writes a statement like that before reviewing a biography, there’s sentences that follow about [...]
So way, way back in this crazy-long series, I talked to you about Out of the Park Baseball. For those that don’t remember and don’t want to click through, OOTP is a long-running baseball simulation series. It’s got a full partnership with MLB, so you get all the players, all the teams, etc. (I mean, [...]
David Halberstam was quite a writer. He touched on a wide variety of issues in his books, from Vietnam to America in the fifties to John F. Kennedy’s administration. Halberstam also spent a lot of time writing about sports, touching on baseball with Summer of ’49 (about the Red Sox and Yankees) and October 1964, [...]
MLB rejected the union’s proposal for a 114-game season and said it would not send a counter, sources tell The Athletic. The league said it has started talks with owners about playing a shorter season without fans, and that it is ready to discuss additional ideas with the union. — Ken Rosenthal (@Ken_Rosenthal) June 3, [...]
We have no idea if or what a 2020 season would look like, but let’s look down the road a bit. MLB Trade Rumors is doing an expansion draft project set after the coming season because, hey, we’ve all got plenty of time and not a lot of content. They solicited opinions about who should [...]
After days of stagnation, all of the sudden baseball seems to have woken up. The players put out their proposal on Sunday night and, as we said in the edit yesterday, showed a bit of openness to the owners’ position. Yesterday afternoon, the news came down that the owners would be countering with pro-rated salaries, [...]
Given the fact that the world went even crazier than normal this weekend, it’s possible that you missed the latest from Major League Baseball. Granted, all of these discussions felt pretty trivial compared to everything that was going on in the country, but it’s still fairly noteworthy. No evidence of progress yet in MLB/ players [...]
As we reach yet another milestone in this seemingly unending drought of baseball, I thought it might be a good time to take a look at where we were this time last year. With Memorial Day well past and more than a 1/3 of a season gone, let’s remember that, while it doesn’t really rank [...]
