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3 Jun 2011, 7:55 am
Baseball allows a player to be signed right out of high school, but if he doesn't sign a pro contract before he enrolls, then it's three years before the MLB can get him. [read post]
1 Jun 2011, 7:21 am
During the height of the MLB steroid era, baseballs were flying out of ballparks at unprecedented rates, and batting records were being shattered. [read post]
30 May 2011, 9:00 pm
By all counts, MLB was compelled to this move by an apparent lack of financial management. [read post]
30 May 2011, 7:33 am
Legislators (and, as I have argued before, the Commissioner and MLB are, at bottom, legislative actors) make legal rules in response to a problem, usually after the problem has been demonstrated by one fairly horrific or problematic example. [read post]
27 May 2011, 8:03 am
The great MLB player's life has been quite wrought with scandal. [read post]
26 May 2011, 9:49 am
Officials for MLB aren't sure if the organization has enough money to make payroll at the end of this month. [read post]
26 May 2011, 7:51 am
Cleveland Indians outfielder, Shin-Soo Choo, was charge with drunk driving earlier this month in Ohio, making him the 6th MLB player to be charged with DUI this year. [read post]
26 May 2011, 4:10 am
Just this week, the MLB Players Union has anounced that it will also cooperate with MLB in setting up a policy that punishes sets to to deter players from drinking and driving. [read post]
25 May 2011, 12:48 pm
McCourt asserts that the team has cut a $3 billion deal with Fox television for game broadcasts that will bring in a team-saving first payment of $300 million.The rub for McCourt is that the league must approve that television deal before it becomes reality and that's not something MLB Commissioner Bud Selig says he will do anytime soon. [read post]
25 May 2011, 12:03 pm
It is unfortunate that MLB decided to have such an important game in a state where people like Mr. [read post]
23 May 2011, 1:57 pm
MLB apparently claimed that [...] [read post]
23 May 2011, 10:50 am
If the May 31 payroll is not met, MLB will seize the team. [read post]
19 May 2011, 8:02 am
In light of his legal history, MLB owners might probe Crane’s employment record since the EEOC’s charges. [read post]
19 May 2011, 4:18 am
Players are being arrested for driving under the influence (DUI) and MLB is considering addressing this issue in the new Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA). [read post]
18 May 2011, 1:29 pm
If McCourt does file for bankruptcy, MLB is likely to play hardball in court. [read post]
16 May 2011, 10:01 pm
He did finally clean house and hired GM Ed Wade and scouting director Bobby Heck to resurrect a farm system that McLane had allowed to deteriorate from one of MLB's best when he acquired the club in 1992 to one of the worst over the past five seasons. [read post]
16 May 2011, 8:07 am
Carroll Rogers writes for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution Legendary rock guitarist Carlos Santana, in town to be honored for a “Beacon of Change” award at Sunday’s MLB Civil Rights Game at Turner Field, called the state's new immigration law "anti-American. [read post]
14 May 2011, 10:58 am
Good piece by Jeff Passan on slotting for the MLB draft being a divisive issue for a new MLB CBA. [read post]
13 May 2011, 2:18 pm
The MLB, fighting a constant uphill battle to stay current regulating new performance enhancing drugs and supplements, doesn’t even have an official opinion–much less a rule–on such treatments derived from one’s own stem cells. [read post]
11 May 2011, 9:00 am
If that's true, expect this to emerge as a key issue should MLB try to sell the Dodgers without Frank McCourt's approval.* The federal government, apparently not deterred by the disappointing result in the Barry Bonds trial (a conviction on just one count - obstruction of justice - which was the least important count), is stepping up its investigation of Lance Armstrong and his possible use and sale of illegal performance-enhancers. [read post]
