cba - Blog

Could work stoppage mean no rule changes in 2022?

December 03, 2021, 6:07pm

Mark Zuckerman

Nationals

Could work stoppage mean no rule changes in 2022?

In anticipating the negotiations between owners and players leading up to the expiration of the collective bargaining agreement, everyone assumed there would be two major areas of dispute: baseball's economic model and potential rule changes to the sport. Turns out the two sides really only discussed money before the CBA expired late Wednesday night and owners instituted a lockout. Commissioner Rob Manfred, during his Thursday news conference with reporters in Dallas, revealed the rule change...

0 Comments

Tags:

cba lockout mark zuckerman nationals nationals pastime pitch clock rob manfred rule changes universal dh featured_sidebar frontstory_nationals3

Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Pinterest

0 Comments

What happens now that the lockout has begun?

December 01, 2021, 7:51pm

Mark Zuckerman

Nationals

What happens now that the lockout has begun?

And so we have entered uncharted territory. Uncharted, that is, for the last 27 years. For the first time since the infamous 1994-95 strike, Major League Baseball is now officially in a work stoppage. When the collective bargaining agreement expired at 11:59 p.m. Wednesday with no new deal in place, owners enforced a lockout of players. How long will it last? What are they fighting over? What does this mean for the Nationals the rest of the winter? Let's try to address as much of this as we...

0 Comments

Tags:

cba lockout mark zuckerman nationals nationals pastime featured_sidebar frontstory_nationals3

Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Pinterest

0 Comments

Last chance to make moves before tonight's expected lockout

November 30, 2021, 7:14pm

Mark Zuckerman

Nationals

Last chance to make moves before tonight's expected lockout

After an awfully quiet start to the offseason, then a furious 48 hours of nonstop news, now baseball has fewer than 24 hours to wrap up any remaining business before the collective bargaining agreement expires and a league-imposed lockout is expected to commence. All of this has made for an unusual couple of days as clubs around the sport rushed to make moves both big and small before a transactions freeze brings a stop to all activity until owners and players can agree on a new CBA. It could...

0 Comments

Tags:

cba cesar hernandez free agency lucius fox mark zuckerman mike rizzo nationals nationals pastime ryne harper wander suero featured_sidebar frontstory_nationals3

Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Pinterest

0 Comments

Desperate teams trying to make big moves before lockout

November 28, 2021, 7:40pm

Mark Zuckerman

Nationals

Desperate teams trying to make big moves before lockout

As Dec. 1 creeps ever closer, we're finally seeing some movement around the baseball world. With the collective bargaining agreement set to expire in two days and an owners' lockout of players looming, a group of prominent free agents is now motivated to get deals down as soon as possible and avoid falling victim to what could be a two-month stretch with zero transactions completed. And there may be no player more motivated to know where he's going to be playing in 2022 right now than Max...

0 Comments

Tags:

cba free agency los angeles dodgers mark zuckerman max scherzer nationals nationals pastime new york mets featured_sidebar frontstory_nationals3

Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Pinterest

0 Comments

On O's podcast, Elias talks CBA, Rule 5 and more

October 14, 2021, 3:01pm

Steve Melewski

Orioles

On O's podcast, Elias talks CBA, Rule 5 and more

The process of identifying players the Orioles could acquire for the 2022 season has begun. Orioles executive vice president and general manager Mike Elias discussed that and much more recently on the "Inside the Yard" O's podcast with hosts Geoff Arnold and Brett Hollander. Elias and all executives throughout Major League Baseball are awaiting the results of the collective bargaining talks between the sports' players and owners. A new collective bargaining agreement could be in place...

0 Comments

Tags:

orioles steve melewski cba featured_sidebar frontstory_orioles2 heston kjerstad mike elias rule 5 draft

Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Pinterest

0 Comments

Will new CBA impact draft order, plus more notes

October 07, 2021, 2:34pm

Steve Melewski

Orioles

Will new CBA impact draft order, plus more notes

Only 20 times since 1901 has a big league team lost 110 or more games in a single season. Two teams did that this year - the Arizona Diamondbacks and the Orioles. You lose that much, you have earned the No. 1 draft pick. But Arizona, thanks to a walk-off homer on the season's final day, is not going to get one next year. That is, barring something in the new collective bargaining agreement that changes that. When teams tie for a spot in the draft - in this case the No. 1 pick - the previous...

0 Comments

Tags:

orioles steve melewski arizona fall league cba featured_sidebar first-year player draft frontstory_orioles2 mike elias shifts world series

Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Pinterest

0 Comments

The new CBA and how it could impact the Orioles

December 01, 2016, 5:04pm

Steve Melewski

Orioles

A few thoughts as more and more details emerge about the new five-year collective bargaining agreement in Major League Baseball. The All-Star Game: It will no longer decide home field advantage in the World Series. This was a terrible idea from the start and now the team with the best record will hold the home-field advantage. It was a surprise to me that MLB stuck with such a bad idea in the first place for so long. The international signing rules: MLB did not get an international draft, but...

0 Comments

Tags:

orioles steve melewski cba frontstory_orioles2

Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Pinterest

0 Comments

Orioles sign outfielder Logan Schafer (plus other notes)

December 01, 2016, 6:39am

Roch Kubatko

Orioles

The Orioles acquired a left-handed hitting outfielder today as the Winter Meetings approach, though it involves a minor league deal. The club announced that it signed Logan Schafer, 30, to a minor league contract. He will receive an invitation to spring training. Schafer is a career .214/.292/.318 hitter in 318 games over parts of six major league seasons, the first five spent with the Brewers. He batted .238/.342/.317 this year in 26 games with the Twins. A former third-round pick, Schafer...

0 Comments

Tags:

buck showalter logan schafer logan verrett mark quinn orioles rick peterson cba fanfest featured_sidebar frontstory_orioles2

Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Pinterest

0 Comments

New CBA underscores the strong state of baseball today

November 30, 2016, 7:53pm

Mark Zuckerman

Nationals

New CBA underscores the strong state of baseball today

The last time Major League Baseball games were seriously in danger of being canceled due to a work stoppage was on Aug. 30, 2002. After playing the first five months of the season with an expired collective bargaining agreement, the Players' Association voted to go on strike if a new deal couldn't be reached by that day. The specter of a work stoppage was all too real. The players' strike of 1994 was still fresh in everyone's minds. Owners and players had not agreed to any new CBA without...

0 Comments

Tags:

cba mark zuckerman nationals nationals pastime featured_sidebar mlb mlbpa frontstory_nationals3

Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Pinterest

0 Comments

Notes on Logan Verrett, Roger McDowell and the CBA

November 30, 2016, 3:38pm

Steve Melewski

Orioles

Notes on Logan Verrett, Roger McDowell and the CBA

The Orioles have acquired pitcher Logan Verrett again. They took the right-hander as one of two Rule 5 picks they added in December 2014. Verrett was selected from the Mets. He eventually made it back to New York and the O's added him in a deal yesterday from the Mets for cash considerations. In this space Wednesday, we wondered if the Orioles could part with right-hander Vance Worley, who is arbitration-eligible, and Verrett's addition would seem to make it tougher for the O's to now keep...

0 Comments

Tags:

logan verrett orioles roger mcdowell steve melewski cba frontstory_orioles3

Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Pinterest

0 Comments

Could either of these two players make it onto O's radar?

November 28, 2016, 5:53pm

Steve Melewski

Orioles

Could either of these two players make it onto O's radar?

There were some rumors recently about a potential trade of outfielder J.D. Martinez from Detroit to San Francisco. If the Orioles lose free agent Mark Trumbo to another team, Martinez and his solid bat might play well in right field in Baltimore. A Tigers team that is looking to get younger and cut payroll might be willing to deal Martinez, who will be a free agent after next season. He is due to earn $11.75 million for 2017. Several teams should be attracted by that reasonable price for a...

0 Comments

Tags:

orioles steve melewski cba

Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Pinterest

0 Comments

MLB's next labor contract could address the schedule, roster size and more

November 26, 2015, 5:19pm

Steve Melewski

Orioles

MLB's next labor contract could address the schedule, roster size and more

There is labor peace in Major League Baseball. There was a time when that was not close to true, but now it is. Since April, 1995 there has been one work stoppage in the National Football League, two in the National Hockey League and three in the National Basketball Association. During that time span, there were none in MLB. The players and owners obviously don't always see eye-to-eye on everything, but they both realize that the sport overall is incredibly healthy and it is now a business...