The Naylor trade wasn’t shocking, even though he was coming off an All-Star season. The organization is known for being proactive on the trade front with pending free agents on accelerating arbitration salaries. Old friend Carlos Santana was signed to replace him, and young Kyle Manzardo is...
We have been saying for years that the LA Dodgers were going to force the rest of the MLB into many changes as soon as they switched ownership group to the Guggenheim Consortium. Since that proclamation, the Dodger Blue has spent over 1 Billion Dollars in players salaries over the last 4 ...
and some are seen as bad, I am fairly neutral on the matter. Whereas the MLB achieved close to its goal of having a hard slotting system, the MLBPA also received higher minimum salaries and less restrictions on free agents
That prevents it from being used as a precedent in future arbitration calculations, so the overall trend of file-and-trial policies is to slow the inflation of salaries. The Cubs have been a file-and-trial team, as most are these days, but have made an exception here. None of the ...
Moniak had gone to an arbitration hearing with the Halos. He prevailed and was awarded a $2MM salary. However, arbitration salaries are only fully guaranteed if the player and team mutually agree to them without a hearing. The distinction was introduced in the most recent collective bargaining ...
Historically, salaries in MLB have always been significantly higher than in Japan. In 2023, the average salary in Japan was ¥44.68 million. The MLB’s average salary was 10 times higher. This huge discrepancy in salary is a factor that has led the MLB to poach some of Japan’s best ...
The talk around baseball is that changes could be in store for the MLB draft, as early as the 2012 draft year. With the expected potential of increased restrictions on entry player salaries, the word is that players will be more likely to sign this year under the current system. It will...
Anyone expecting me to be trashing WAR in this podcast might be surprised. Send post your questions via Twitter to@sullybaseball Adam Wainwright,Chris Davis,Joe BlantonandAlfonso Sorianoall owned baseball on June 29, 2013. To see the up to date tally of “Who Owns Baseball?,” clickHERE. ...
That’s a fairly small amount in the baseball world, where many guys are making eight-figure salaries annually, but it’s not nothing for the Mariners. They reportedly had about $15MM to spend this winter. They ended up giving out less than that, bringing backJorge Polancoand signingDonovan...
ve traded three significant players so far inGiancarlo Stanton,Dee GordonandMarcell Ozuna, and only the latter of the three netted any significant prospect haul. Miami has succeeded in getting big salaries off the books, but their farm system still looks bleak and lacks top-rated prospects (...