Some of baseball’s biggest stars are ready to change the game’s free-agency system – The Athletic Transition the minimum salary to $2-$3 million a year (which essentially puts in a floor between $52-$72 million). More players get money and it moves the base for marginal dollars. The service time manipulation that affected Lindor and Bryant,…
DetailsAngels Showing Interest In Anthony Rendon The Angels have joined the mix for star free agent third baseman Anthony Rendon, per Jon Heyman of MLB Network (via Twitter). Just how involved the club isn’t known, but Heyman says the Halos have at least “expressed interest.” Yesterday’s blockbuster Stephen Strasburg deal may have shaken things up…
DetailsMLB Draft Headed To Omaha In 2020 Omaha is the epicenter of the college baseball world in June. Now, all sights will be on it for the Major League Baseball draft as well. Source: https://d1baseball.com/news/mlb-draft-headed-to-omaha-in-2020/
DetailsMichael Pineda Was Elite at Pitch Tunneling The Minnesota Twins brought back another piece of their 2019 starting rotation when they re-signed righty Michael Pineda to a two-year, $20-million contract (pending physical). With another 39 games left in his 60-game suspension due to testing positive for PEDs (hydrochlorothiazide), the deal works out to roughly $17.6…
DetailsPoll: Which Team Will Sign Gerrit Cole? High-level meetings are taking place. Offers are coming in. All indications are that the Gerrit Cole bidding is at a full sprint, spurred in part by the stunningly lucrative deal reached between the Nationals and Stephen Strasburg. That record-setting $245MM contract ups the ante for teams interested in the younger…
DetailsPrimer Dugout (and link of the day) 12-10-2019 Pittsburgh Gazette Times, December 10, 1919:Honus Wagner last night admitted that he had received an offer to manager the new Akron (O.) club in the International League. “I do not know whether to accept,” he added. … Further than to admit that he had been offered the…
DetailsYankees have trade interest in Royals reliever Tim Hill The Yankees are among several teams inquiring about the availability of Royals left-handed reliever Tim Hill. Hill, who turns 30 in February, is entering his third big-league season and posted solid numbers this past year when he appeared in 46 games with a 3.63 ERA and…
DetailsLooking at 10 best performances from 2019 From Opening Day through the final championship game, MiLB.com chronicled the top on-field achievements in 2019. This week we’re rolling out the 10 best performances as voted by our staff. Source: https://www.milb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20191210&content_id=312126766&fext=.jsp&vkey=news_milb&sid=milb
DetailsTwins Still Searching For Major Rotation Addition We’re closing in on the one-year anniversary of these memorable words from Twins GM Thad Levine: “The best moves are made not when you’re trying to open the window to contend, but when the window is wide open. We’re very eagerly waiting for this window to be opened, and…
DetailsMeetings meaningful for Jane Rogers Last year, a cancer diagnosis kept Jane Rogers from attending the Winter Meetings. In 2019, the legendary Staten Island Yankees exec made a triumphant return. Source: https://www.milb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20191210&content_id=312126908&fext=.jsp&vkey=news_milb&sid=milb
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