During every at-bat … emerge Tremfyant!
Another small tweak:
Life imitates fantasy baseball.
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Astros play 3-game series in Toronto at the end of April.
So many quirks:
Jayson Stark delves deeper into the scheduling issues for 2022 and 2023. The entire article is a good read so check it out if you have a subscription but this part expanding further on that whole playing fewer games against division opponents and have at least one series against all non-division opponents every year starting next season is especially interesting…
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Yes, the 2023 schedule will cut back on rivalry games. And in their place, teams will play an NBA-like schedule that involves facing all 29 other clubs, including every one of the 15 in the other league. Here’s a breakdown:
DIVISION GAMES (56): Clubs play all four teams in their division 14 times. (Current total: 19) So that means one three-game series and one four-game series each, both home and road.
OTHER 10 LEAGUE OPPONENTS (60): Those non-division teams within your league? You’ll play them six times apiece — three at home, three on the road. (Current total: six or seven apiece)
INTERLEAGUE SCHEDULE (46): Here’s how this works: Every team plays its interleague “rival” (Mets-Yankees, Cubs-White Sox, you know the deal) four times — two at home, two on the road. (Current total: four or six games, depending on the season). As for the other 14 teams in the opposite league, you’ll play three games against every one of them. Half are at home. Half are on the road. Then that will flip the following year.
That’s… surprisingly simple.
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I selfishly like that they end up playing all of the National League teams. It gives me a better chance of visiting say Philadelphia and seeing the Astros play.
I just wish we got to play the Rangers and the Mariners as interleague rivals.
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The other part of this I just learned today is that Draft and follow only applies to players drafted after the 10th round. You can sign those draft picks before the signing deadline for up to $150K without it impacting the bonus pool. After a year of juco (have to be enrolled both semesters) that amount goes up to the $225 amount Callis notes.
So basically it provides a reward for a kid who takes that route and shows his worth to the team. I could see this increasing the number of HS kids taken in the last 10 rounds of the draft. In the 2021 draft, there were 51 HS players taken in rounds 11-20. 25 of those signed with their teams.
If it follows the pattern of the previous draft and follow, it will be the last few rounds that are mostly the draft and follow picks.
That 4th CBT tier ain’t the Cohen tax…
Has anyone seen a good rundown of the changes in the new CBA? I’m curious to see if the prohibition against performance-based contract incentives was modified.
Drellich did this one and it’s so detailed that it talks about how vision benefits for players now includes the purchase of both eyeglasses and contacts in the same 12 month period (yes…really). So what you mentioned would I think have been of more interest to fans than vision benefits and the fact he doesn’t address it suggests that either there was no changes or whatever document Drellich may have been working from was not the complete agreement.
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Thanks!