That’s cute: he thinks they’re going to cut the Dominican League guys loose. No, if the owners have their way, they’ll probably have nothing but Dominican League guys. Fuck those greedy single-A punks.
Just to commemorate the date, pitchers and catchers didn’t report this week.
It’s Nightengale so grain of salt but MLB and the players could be close to an agreement, could even come tonight
It’s Nightengale so it doesn’t even have internal logic. No one is moving because the two sides are moving?
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Apparently neither side is anyone.
I think signs point to getting a deal done either today or tomorrow, meaning no loss of regular season games. But you never know.
Hopefully. It does seem that the two sides are coalescing around what is basically the status quo on the major issues.
It is extremely baseball that this thing will get done at the last minute with all the major changes having been predicted years before.
I’d fully support a delay to opening day to allow for a full spring training. Typically, players report to spring training with a certain level of physical preparedness and build on top of that during the course of spring training. Enough of them have said that their offseason regimes have been impacted enough, due to the lockout, that they are concerned. Couple that with a shortened spring training and I am concerned that we’ll see a repeat of the increased injuries coming out of Covid.
While that would be a logical course, there’s absolutely no way the owners would take the PR hit of moving the regular season.
I think in this day and age a shorter Spring Training is less of a factor. Players are working out on their own, throwing, etc. it’s not like the old days where players had jobs in the off-season. Sure, it’s not exactly the same as a full season, but I personally think the injury angle of shortening ST a few weeks is overblown.
Except that they’ve been locked out of the facilities that many of them would use for those activities, and as I understand it, separated from the medicos who would normally be advising them during rehab.
I thought most players think ST is twice as long as it needs to be anyway, but Austro and das make good points about the normal facilities for preparing on their own (like McCullers/Verlander have voiced).
Surely we don’t need to worry about their recoveries from injury.
/vomits profusely
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I cancelled my flights to spring training last night. I am disgusted with the whole fucking thing.
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I’ve blanked actual baseball out so much during this that I honest to God forgot who beat us last year.
Our starting pitching and everyone on offense taller than 5’6".
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Who was it?
If only they were paid enough to afford a gym membership.
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I’m waiting for the first case of a rehabbing player who reinjures himself and then gets told “tough luck” by a club because wasn’t following the program that would have been prescribed for him by the club staff.
I’m not sure what you’re getting at here…that because of a labor dispute, clubs now have blanket liability for any player injury, beyond their conctractual oblibation to pay their for their treatment, rehab, and salary in full? You want punitive damages for injuries now?