MLB - NEWS & NOTES

It’s been forever but the Braves are champions again.
My favorite baseball team growing up in Atlanta.

 

Happy for Freddie, Tyler Matzek the rest of the Braves players, Snit and Alex A.

My Grandma always rooted for the Braves after they left Boston, and I remember loving watching the Murphy-Horner-Niekro era teams on TBS when I was a kid.

But seriously Braves fans*…knock it off with the stupid chop and chant already. It’s 2021, and it was never cool or clever to start with.

* - also applies to Chiefs fans

 

This comment is Guardians approved.

 

Well, they beat the Crew on the way but I'm still happy for them.

They're kind of a Milwaukee team, aren't they?

 

As a pirates fan dont talk to me about forever, but I will say congrats to braves and braves fans.

 

Nice to see a former Cub get the MvP of the series, Well played Jorge Soler!

Grats to the Braves, not the team I expected to make it to the end, but an awesome display this past season.

 

Rangers on a spending spree!

 

The entire MLB is turning up-sidedown. Ive never seen anything like this. Contracts galour!

 

I really thought virtually nothing would happen with a lockout looming.

10/325 for Seager with his injury history is bananas.

 

Where are the Expos to have the best record with no post season?

 

Baez to the Tigers is nearly done... 6/140M

 

Someone please make it make sense to me how Tony Oliva, Jim Kaat and Gil Hodges got the 12/16 votes for the HOF from the veteran committee but Dick Allen only got 11.

Nothing against those guys they were fine ballplayers and I got no quarrel with them getting in but anybody voting for them should absolutely be voting for Allen too.

 

Feels like this story should be getting a lot more coverage

Tyler Skaggs trial: Matt Harvey named as possible drug source

 

MLB Argues For Minor League Players To Remain Unpaid For Spring Training

Oh look MLB dicking over minor leaguers again. Shocking.

 

Seems like the owners and such could step up their game and twist some arms to make things fair. Minor Leaguers need payed, period. Multi-billion dollar industry cant afford to pay their assets/players?

Im not a Manfred fan or a union guy, just a screwed over fan watching the game get ruined.

 

In terms of reaching a labor agreement, think of it as the bottom of the ninth inning.

Major League Baseball and the Major League Baseball Players Association met for six hours Sunday but failed to reach a deal, according to multiple reports. The sides will meet again Monday morning in hopes of an agreement ahead of the league's deadline to salvage Opening Day for March 31.

If a deal is not reached by the end of Monday, MLB has indicated that it will cancel games starting with the season opener and cut into its 162-game slate.


Although Sunday's extended negotiations were perceived as positive, the players and owners reportedly are far apart on multiple issues including minimum salaries, the competitive balance tax, expanding Super-2 arbitration eligibility, revenue sharing, expanded playoffs and a bonus pool for pre-arbitration players.

It was a "productive meeting" from MLB's perspective, USA Today reported, but players were not as positive. Union officials said both sides remained "very far apart" on key hurdles to complete the negotiation process and shift the focus toward the season.

Other reports indicated a similar feeling of part-optimism, part-pessimism.

"There was some sense of productivity today, but the gap on key issues remains large," Evan Drelich of The Athletic wrote on Twitter. "Tomorrow on deadline day, they're meeting earlier in the day than they had yet. Notable: no one suggested Sunday brought significant momentum, or a breakthrough. So, temper the urge to be excited."

Reuters

 

Lock outs and strikes are ridiculous when everyone is making pretty good money. But greed is a strong thing and they all feel that they should get more of the pie.

 

All I know is that we were forced to give up the best logo in sports for this...


SMH....

Oh well. Congrats to the 12 year old that designed the face of Cleveland baseball I guess.

 

JUPITER, Fla. — Major League Baseball has extended its deadline for reaching a labor deal to 5 p.m. on Tuesday for salvaging opening day on March 31.

Locked-out players and team owners engaged in a series of intense negotiations that began Monday and stretched into early Tuesday morning as the sides attempted to forge the path to an agreement.

Players and owners met for a 13th time with a session that started after 2 a.m. as the lockout reached its 90th day. They made progress toward an agreement but remained far apart on key issues.

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