The ace of the New York Mets will be ready to go as spring training begins. In a press conference Sunday, general manager Billy Eppler said he hasn’t been informed of any restrictions on Jacob deGrom by trainers. “I don’t have any reason to be (concerned),” Eppler said. “I haven’t had to debrief with any of the trainers on anything. As far as I know it’s just kind of normal.” DeGrom has already...
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Major League Baseball and the Players Association came to an agreement on Thursday for a new Collective Bargaining Agreement. Part of the new CBA will be a new penalty threshold in the luxury tax, a fourth tier that some are referring to as the “Steve Cohen Tax” meant to deter owners from blatantly outspending the competition. The threshold for penalties begins at $230 million in...
Read MoreAs the Major League Baseball Players Association attempts to fix the competition problem in baseball, the league owners are quarreling over an owner using his financial resources to make his team better. According to Evan Drellich and Ken Rosenthal of The Athletic, the billionaires that run MLB franchises proposed adding a new surcharge level to the luxury tax. Currently, there are three levels...
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MLB lockout negotiations have moved from Jupiter, Florida, to Manhattan, the site of the major league offices. It could be another late evening watching Twitter feeds of MLB insiders with the league setting a Tuesday night deadline in order to play 162 games this season. MLB and the MLBPA held an in-person meeting Tuesday morning, then reconvened once more in the afternoon with Dan Halem, Morgan...
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On International Women’s Day let’s take a moment to appreciate the two historic hires in the New York Mets organization, Elizabeth Benn and Gretchen Aucoin. Benn was hired as director of MLB Operations for the Mets in late February. She is the highest-ranked female ops employee in franchise history. Benn previously worked as the Senior Coordinator of Baseball Operations with MLB. She...
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