Per baseball’s top insiders a new CBA is nowhere near close. With spring training scheduled to begin in mid-February talks must increase in finding a middle ground in order to prevent delaying the season. There are still five main talking points on the table between the sides, including minimum salary, arbitration and pre-arbitration bonus pools, luxury tax, draft lottery, and service-time...
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Buck Showalter will remain in the upper echelon of manager salaries with the Mets. His three-year deal is worth $11.25 million. Buck Showalter, Mets3 years, $11.25M3.5M 20223.75M 20234.0M 2024 — Jon Heyman (@JonHeyman) January 26, 2022 Showalter will be paid $3.5 million in 2022, $3.75 million in 2023, and $4.0 million in 2024. When Showalter was with the Orioles in 2018 his salary was $4...
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Mandatory Credit: Bob DeChiara-USA TODAY Sports David Ortiz is the lone player elected to the Hall of Fame. Ortiz received 77.9% of the votes to be elected first-ballot. Ortiz played 20 years in the major leagues. He started his career in Minnesota in 1997 where he’d play six years then finish it as a star in Boston for 14 seasons. In his career, the first baseman and designated hitter was...
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Progress is being made in talks between MLB and the MLBPA. The two sides met for the second day in a row in Manhattan. No deal was agreed to but that was to be expected. Instead, there were more talks of where the owners and players can meet on a new collective bargaining agreement. On Monday, the MLBPA made modifications to their initial proposals. Those were detailed by Matt Musico here....
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Ketel Marte Position: 2B/OF Bats/Throws: S/R Date of Birth: 10/12/1993 (28) Traditional Stats: 90 G, 108 H, 14 HR, 50 RBI, .318 BA, .377 OBP Advanced Stats: 1.8 WAR, 139 wRC+, 8.9 Barrel% Rundown Sparking from the discussion this morning of four potential trade ideas, let’s do a deeper dive into Ketel Marte, the 28-year-old switch-hitting outfielder and middle infielder on the Arizona...
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