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As players are reporting to spring training sites in Florida and Arizona, with Grapefruit and Cactus league games set to begin on March 17- 18, the ink is just now drying on the pages of a new five year collective bargaining agreement (CBA) between major league baseball (MLB) owners and players. Here are all the

The resolution of baseball’s near labor crisis means that MLB teams can transition from minor league minicamps to full spring activities with the major league team. For the Detroit Tigers, full workouts begin on Monday, with the abbreviated Grapefruit League season beginning on Friday, March 18 against the Philadelphia Phillies. Accompanying that transition is the

After months of acrimony and little progress, MLB owners and the MLBPA union finally agreed on a new collective bargaining agreement late last week. While the most basic result is simply that we finally have major league baseball again, with a wild combination of free agency, spring training, and logistical madness, there are plenty of

Well, the first two days of free agency didn’t see the Detroit Tigers do anything of note. The top starting pitchers were quickly snatched up, leading us to argue for a focus on relievers, with a collection of depth starters for the fifth spot in the rotation and insurance at Triple-A. However, the Tigers did

Winning organizations need to find usable talent in every nook and cranny. That means hitting on early round picks, being willing to throw around some weight in free agency and the trade market, identifying talented castoffs for refurbishment, and landing on the right developmental longshots late in the draft now and again. That last item

We now have a collective bargaining agreement, the lockout is over, and the hot stove is going to be blazing hot through the weekend. With Grapefruit League games scheduled to begin on March 18th, players have only a few days to sign a deal, find places to live, get cleared to enter the country, and

Well it certainly looked bleak the past few weeks, but we got there in the end. Major League Baseball and the MLBPA union have a new collective bargaining agreement, and baseball is back on the menu. Ashley MacLennan joins Brandon Day for a quick reaction pod to the day’s events. We’ll look back at the

Well, well, well, Major League Baseball is back. They hurt us, but it’s hard to be anything but happy that our long offseason nightmare is now over. We’ll be discussing the fallout from this nonsense for a long-time to come. Now that the deal is agreed and the pie re-divided, look for the owners to

Major League Baseball owners and players finally reached agreement on a new Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) that will allow for a full 162 game season to be played in 2022. The players’ representatives went against the recommendation of their eight-man executive council who rejected the proposal on an 8- 0 vote and approved the new

Well that was excruciating. We’ll have a lot more detail later, but for now, know that Major League Baseball is back on the menu. Just after 3 p.m. on Thursday afternoon, the players and owners finally reached a conclusive agreement, and after a half-hour of nail-biting to see if the players would vote to ratify,

It seemed that a new collective bargaining agreement (CBA) between Major League Baseball’s (MLB) players and owners was getting close again on Wednesday afternoon. The once huge gaps between the two sides had narrowed to just $2 million on the lowest tier of the competitive balance tax (CBT), and just $10 million on the minimum

Tuesday evening’s CBA proposal from the owners to the players left many feeling like they were negotiating in good faith for the first time in this cycle’s renegotiation process. A notable element of that proposal was a the implementation of an international draft, the specifics of which were made available to the public. Reporting indicates