With Spring Training kicking off, baseball fans across the country begin to gain excitement as a new season approaches with renewed hopes of success for their favorite teams. However, the owners and Players Association have been making headlines for the wrong reasons.
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As the Major League Baseball (MLB) regular season ends, the playoff picture is set as the Philadelphia Phillies beat the Houston Astros securing the final wildcard spot and eliminating the Milwaukee Brewers from playoff contention.
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With Major League Baseball (MLB) still mired in its lockout with the MLB Players Association (MLBPA), baseball news has been seldom since the lockout started on December 2nd. Luckily, there has been some new baseball news for fans to talk about, with the annual Hall of Fame vote.
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On December 2nd, Major League Baseball, again, began a lockout between the league’s owners and the Player’s Association. This means that there will not be any games played until issues are resolved between these two entities. Lockouts are not so uncommon in the world of sports, and this is certainly not a first-time occurrence for the game of baseball. In 1994, the players went on strike, which resulted in no postseason baseball and some players being picked up literally off the street just so the rest of that season could be played.
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When the clock struck midnight on December 2nd, Major League Baseball entered its first lockout in 26 years… Since the lockout was expected as the calendar grew closer to the end of the previous CBA, teams moved quickly this offseason to address needs and sign some of the biggest free agents before the lockout began.
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The Atlanta Braves are officially the 2021 World Series Champions, defeating the Houston Astros in six games; just as former major leaguer Trevor Plouffe predicted on March 31st, earlier this year. Though the brow-beaten city of Atlanta can finally celebrate after years of despair and misery, the real celebration comes from the rest of the league, who have collectively and unanimously expressed, and likely will express for many future years, a deep disdain for the Astros organization following their well-publicized cheating scandal.
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The MLB has approved the 2021 season to be a full-length season, but it comes with a few restrictions. The MLB has conducted and sent out a 108-page safety manual to all teams, expressing the new and updated health protocols for the season.
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Kim Ng, a longtime baseball executive with nearly three-decades of experience in the league, was tabbed by franchise CEO Derek Jeter as the new chief baseball figure in the Marlins’ front office. She will be the first woman to hold such a role in any of the four major North American professional sports leagues.
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This offseason will likely prove consequential for both baseball franchises based in New York City. For one organization, they have gone 11 consecutive seasons without securing a World Series title, while continually running a payroll that challenges for tops in the sport, and set to lose a host of key components to free agency while having to make difficult roster decisions on others. For another, they are transitioning under new incoming ownership, longing to put to bed an era of super-frugality, mediocrity, and purgatorial standing, perpetually having talent that would put them as one of the better teams in the National League, yet somehow always succumbing to injuries or underperformance
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$155.7 million. That was the financial gap in payrolls on opening day this season between the Tampa Bay Rays, and the Los Angeles Dodgers. Now, the two franchises meet in the 2020 World Series as champions of the American League and National League.
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