Nationals Arm Race

The Athletic’s Evan Drellich is in Irving, Texas, reporting from the final meetings between the owners and the players before the 12/1/21 CBA expiration deadline and subsequent lockout, and he’s come up with some really interesting nuggets. I know the Athletic is behind a paywall; i’ll try to summarize some of the back and forth details, some of which I find pretty … [Read more...] about Final proposals pre Lockout show some interesting CBA negotiation details

Is this the end of the road for Fedde with the Nats? Photo via minorleagueball.com 12/1/21 is the non-tender deadline for this year. It also happens to be “National MLB lockout day” as the existing CBA expires between the owners and players … but for the purposes of this post, we’ll assume that some normal baseball transactions will occur. and because of this uncertainty, … [Read more...] about Nats 2021 Non-Tender Discussion

The Athletic got its hands on a huge memo the MLBPA issued to its members, providing guidance and answering questions for the (expected) lockout to occur on 12/1/21. What’s more interesting to me was the rhetoric that the MLBPA communicated as to its “primary concerns” with the state of baseball right now, and to me it reads like a list of the major demands/strategic … [Read more...] about MLBPA CBA bargaining playbook strategy leaked

Harper gets MVP #2. Photo via Phila Inquirer Normally i take pride in being able to predict the 8 major post-season awards MLB gives out. This year I kind of got a time crunch right when the prediction piece had to go out and gave it a quick guess instead of doing deep analysis. how did I do on predictions nonetheless? Here’s how my predictions went versus … [Read more...] about 2021 Awards wrap-up and Bryce MVP #2

Its our Annual rule 5 protection analysis post! Every time I re-do a post that I know i’ve done in the past, I scan back to get the last few links. For this piece; this is one of the longest running posts I do. Here’s links to past years posts on this topic: 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010. We have managed to do this post every year, … [Read more...] about Nats 2021 Rule-5 Analysis and Predictions