If anything, the new World Series home-field rule, a byproduct of the latest collective bargaining agreement between MLB and the MLB Players Association, adds even greater incentive for runaway division leaders like the Dodgers and Astros to keep pressing the gas pedal through September and leave...
They have all since hit the open market and earned larger salaries with other clubs."When you look at the cost on some of the players that we were able to do that on, it was really low," Hoyer said. "It wasn't low risk, but low stakes, as far as what we were paying those ...