Because sometimes things just need to be said….
On paper, all 30 teams had a shot at Yoshinobu Yamamoto. On paper, I also had a shot at dunking on LeBron. Technically true, completely useless. When he came over from Japan, the Dodgers landed him for 12 years and $325 million, plus a posting fee of just over $50 million to his old team, …
Baseball wants to give back eight games a year and I’d take that deal before they finish the sentence. The playoff part of the pitch, though, is where they lose me. Here’s what MLB put in front of the players union today: a 154-game regular season starting in 2029, a best-of-seven Division Series, and a …
I never expected to write a sentence defending baseball’s owners. But here we are, six months into MLB’s ugliest labor fight in a generation, and I keep landing on the same uncomfortable conclusion: this time, they might actually have a point. Formal CBA talks between MLB and the players’ union started on May 12. The …
Nine teams got hit with a luxury tax penalty after both the 2024 and 2025 seasons, the most in the sport’s history, a level of tax-dodging math that would embarrass anyone else’s business plan. The Dodgers alone paid $169.4 million of it last year. They still won. That’s the whole argument for a salary cap, …