Another day has passed, and it does not seem as though we are any closer to the end of the lockout and a resumption of a normal offseason and typical preparations for a new campaign. In this series of articles, we are taking a look at the key issues over which MLB and the MLBPA are haggling, presenting Ken Rosenthal’s thoughts from The Athletic, and adding commentary. In part one here on...
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The MLB lockout has been in place a little over one week. That’s not really long, but the absence of baseball news makes it seem longer. The Winter Meetings should be happening. We should be discussing the trades the Mets made, or did not make. Everything is off cycle now, and the real problem is that there is no sign of an imminent return to normalcy. Baseball has been down this path...
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With this year’s offseason player movement activity on hold, let’s take a look back at a trade the Mets made at the 1984 Winter Meetings. On December 10, 1984, the Mets and Expos completed a five-player trade, with the Mets getting seven-time all star catcher Gary Carter in return for third baseman Hubie Brooks, outfielder Herm Winningham, catcher Mike Fitzgerald, and pitcher Floyd...
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It has been one week since the MLB team owners locked out the players (MLBPA), in a move the owners termed “defensive”, and whose purported intent was to move the negotiations forward for a new Collective Bargaining Agreement. So far, the lockout has not achieved its desired endpoint, because the two sides are not even talking (at least not to our knowledge). From a timing...
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It’s the first (of what may be many) weekends with no baseball news. It has been just a few days, but it seems longer, doesn’t it? We have players changing their Twitter avatars to grayed-out figures, and MLB club sites saying things like “Third Baseman Bobblehead Day.” It appears as though both sides have dug in for a protected battle. No new talks are scheduled at this...
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