Posted on 03/10/2022 1:56:28 PM PST by Jolla
On the 99th day of a contentious lockout, Major League Baseball and the players’ union reached a tentative labor agreement for the 2022 season on Thursday. Once in doubt, a full 162-game regular season will be played.
Spring training, which is normally six weeks and was originally scheduled to begin in mid-February, will open this weekend.
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Too bad.
The opposite side of Fenway’s Green Monster in Boston has probably the world’s biggest Black Lives Matter sign painted on it. It’s right on the Mass Pike. Prior to that sign I never missed watching or listening to a game in probably 30 years. Now I couldn’t tell you the names of two players.
At least I got to enjoy their world series wins.
The owners are voting now on it. It akes 23 yes votes (of 30.)
The MLBPA Executive Committee ratified it 26-12.
Expect a frenzy after formal approval. Once the owners vote, assuming it’s yes, they’ll lift the lockout and the transactions freeze that went with it, and you can expect a week or so that looks like a combination of the Winter Meetings with the Trade Deadline.
Spring training camps are expected to open tomorrow; Opening Day is currently set for April 7.
I think so. Camps open tomorrow. I would expect around 20 spring training games for each club. Fewer than usual, but probably enough.
As I said, think the Winter Meetings combined with the Trade Deadline.
I watched Ken Burns' baseball series and remembered the history in the 70s, 80s and early 90s. Then I truly hit a wall where I had no idea who any of the players mentioned were except for a few big names who broke into popular culture in general. It was like a foreign country to me.
I guess I’ll live with it, but I detest the DH.
So do I.
It used to be the best ballplayers were household names. Now I deft the average person who doesn’t pay attention to name 5 current ballplayers.
MLB has the right to implement rules changes with a year’s notice. Unless that’s been changed in the new CBA, expect a pitch clock, limitations on shifts, and bigger bases in 2023.
Those things help address the game’s problems:
An average of 25 seconds between pitches. At roughly 300 pitches per nine-inning game, if you simply implement a 20-second clock (let alone the 14/19 they’re talking about), you’d save 1500 seconds, or 25 minutes, of people standing around doing nothing — in five-second increments.
There is now an average of roughly 4+ minutes between balls in play. Limiting shifts could help with getting more balls in play more often (though I’ve already figured out a way around it, and if I can figure it out, you bet major-league managers can.)
For five years running, there have been more strikeouts than base hits. The new rules may help with that also.
It’s interesting to me that my grandsons PLAY organized Little League baseball and love it but FOLLOW the NFL far more closely than MLB.
99 days.
I still do it. I love keeping score.
It’s expected that the top 2 division winners will get byes. The third-seeded division winner plays #6 seed, all games at home. 4 and 5 play each other in what at lest should be a relatively well matched series.
I don’t like it, but it’s better (less bad) than the crazy 14-team plan teh owners were originally pushing.
I can’t name one. Honest.
My wife would rather watch paint dry, than watch any pro sports. (I’m her earthly hero. She’s seen me on horseback, operating a variety of equipment, overhaul engines, welding scrap metal into a 14’ tall 39’ long t-rex skeleton, fly airplanes, drive 18-wheelers in a blizzard, and on my knees seeking God. And she’s marvelous in every way.)
The problem is the excess of what the sabermetricians call the “Three True Outcomes.” A majority of plate appearances now end in a home run, a strikeout, or a walk. We get fewer and fewer runners on base, balls in play, steals, bunts, hit and run, and the rest of the traditional strategems.
Efficient perhaps, but a less interesting, less exciting game.
That and godawful marketing are baseball’s biggest problems. The idiot MBAs in the marketing department apparently don’t like baseball and they claim “you can’t sell the game.” I could; I know how. But I’m not an MBA, so what do I know?
The owners have ratified the agreement. The lockout and transaction freeze are expected to be lifted around 7 PM Eastern time.
did not know they were on strike again.
Do not care.
Read the second line in the post.
Sheesh.
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Yeah. I noticed that immediately after I posted.
Read the second line in the post.
Sheesh.
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Why read the info and learn? Pretty common these days.
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