Archive for the 'Contracts/Economics' Category

If and when baseball is back, what will the season look like?

In The Long Season and Ball Four, two literary pitchers describe the days when ballplayers took what their employers offered—or gave up the game.

What might be in store for foreign players and Korea?

Eliminating the draft would make baseball better, primarily for its young players.

In the fate of the 2018 Red Sox, we find a case of Dave Dombrowski déjà vu.

A traveling team created just to fill a league’s need for an even number of teams? The results are just as would be expected.

A plea for fans to look at ballplayers as people, not property.

Whether to the owners’ benefit, the players’ detriment, or both, here are the teams with the most extra talent for the money.

As the trade deadline approaches, we look at how some trades send longer threads through rosters than others.

Having the best players on the field should matter to every baseball fan.