Major League Baseball has settled on a 20-round draft for the 2021 season, J.J. Cooper of Baseball America reports. That outcome has long seemed likely, as it is the minimum number of rounds required in the 2020 agreement between MLB and the MLBPA. While it’s obviously a step up from last year’s five-round event, the 20-round length still clocks in at half the length of the standard 40-round draft.
This year’s draft was already set to look quite a bit different. For starters, it’s been known for months that the event will be moved back to July. Major League Baseball also announced back in November the formation of the MLB Draft League — a six-team showcase league that will offer some of the country’s top amateurs the opportunity to compete against one another in the weeks leading up to the draft. There’s also been talk of an NFL-style combine of sorts, which would give clubs more up to date medical information on potential draftees. Pushing the draft back until after the College World Series and state high school tournament completions also avoids injury risk for top talent after the draft.
Baseball America’s Carlos Collazo, meanwhile, has a full breakdown of each team’s league-allotted bonus pool for this year’s draft. The Pirates, picking first overall, lead the way at $14.394MM. The Tigers check in with the second-largest pool at $14.253MM and stand as the only other team north of $13MM. The Astros, who had their first- and second-round picks stripped as part of the organization’s punishment stemming from the 2017 sign-stealing scandal, have just a $2.94MM bonus pool. As Collazo observes, the individual slot values of the first 22 picks in the draft are all greater than Houston’s entire bonus pool. The Astros do not have a selection until the 87th overall pick.
On that note, it’s worth reminding that the assigned slot values for selections in the top 10 rounds have not progressed from 2020 — another element to which the union agreed in last year’s negotiations with ownership. That means the top slot will again be valued at $8,415,300, and values will gradually descend from there. There are no slot values after the tenth round, as usual. Teams can spend up to $125K per pick in Rounds 11 through 20 without any money counting against their pool. Any dollars over that mark will count against a team’s pool. Undrafted players can again become free agents who are free to sign with any club, but those bonuses are capped at $20K apiece.
Sorry, but this sucks for some. A lot of great talent has gone over the years rounds 21+ — and now that road is going to be rockier. Best of luck to all of ’em and hope they get discovered all the same.
Last night just two of the twenty six starting pitchers, of which there were a possible thirteen eligible for victories were credited with wins.
Who still values the win as a credible statistic for pitchers? It’s one rung up from dumb luck.
*Walter Johnson weeps*
Of the 13 pitchers with a win… 11 have an era of 0.00, one has an era of 6.00 and 1 has an era of 13.50
Of the 13 pitchers with a loss… 3 have an era of 0.00, 10 have an era between 4.37 and 27.00 and 2 have an era of infinite.
Looks like the guys with wins pitched pretty well.
Not sure what their spinny rate value is though.
The MLBTR savants said the top pitchers were Kershaw, Bieber, Kendricks, Castillo, Bumgarner… did they not have the spinny thing going?
Just because you don’t understand something is no reason to be condescending to people that value that information.
More knowledge is always better
MLB savants look at end of year statistics, not single game stats.
When people are condescending to my opinion, expect it returned.
They use end of year stats to predict future success. We were told the spinny rate stat was a predictor of future success.
Give me a staff of pitchers with a bunch of wins over their spinny rate pitchers.
Cy Young, Walter Johnson, Grover Alexander and Christy Matthewson were some good pitchers. How does Castillo’s spinny rate compare to them?
Do you know what Walter Johnson’s spinny rate was? Grover Alexander? Christy Matthewson?
There is no one stat to categorize great players. It’s a combination of many stats. My saying that spinny rate or strikey-outy rate means nothing is just as silly as someone saying wins mean nothing.
Wins do matter somewhat but the reality is there are much better ways to evaluate pitchers and it’s not up for debate.
If your team scores 6 runs on average every you pitch you will probably have a pretty good record. If your team averages 2.7 runs every time you pitch then you will probably be a losing record pitcher it’s just the way it is. This is why, at the very least, you should look at how many runs the team averages when the pitcher with a lot of wins pitches. Yea when I really think about it wins matter but very little in evaluating how good pitcher really is.
Ok. How about Greg Maddux, Tom Glavine, Andy Pettitte? Should they (2 of 3) be in the HOF? How about the 3rd, should Pettitte get in? I mean wins don’t mean anything, right? Neither does ERA,right?
Wins are an interesting stat.
QB’s are given credit for them in football. A much more team oriented sport than baseball. Tom Brady is credited with 263 of them.
Also, there are certain players that do seem to have that quality of “doing what it takes”. It’s a difficult (impossible?) skill to quantify. Wins shouldn’t be used as a sole arbiter of success. Same as spin rate. I don’t see why both can’t be used in looking at pitcher performance.
I don’t think so much of this stuff needs to be an “either or”.
I see you are closed minded… not open for debate. I get it… teams score more runs, better chance to win. So teams that score the most runs in a year win the most games? No, Teams that score the most runs have the best pitchers? No.
Pitchers that win a lot of games are good pitchers. For every Drew Hutchison you throw at me, I can throw 20 pitchers with a lot of wins who are good. Can you do the same for spinny rate?
If you can really spinny the ball and it goes to the backstop…
There are players that seem to have what it takes to earn the win, while others just can’t seem to do it.
Justin Verlander has almost 100 more wins than losses. He was on some great teams and he was on some real dogs too.
Nolan Ryan has 30 more wins than losses. Isn’t that crazy? Maybe Ryan isn’t as great as his legend? He was on some remarkable teams too. Bad luck?
Nolan Ryan played 27 years in the majors, if I remember correctly, and very few of those teams could be considered “remarkable”. Most of them were crap. There is a reason that wins are not given a whole lot of weight by people in the baseball community. Jacob DeGrom and Felix Hernandez both recently won Cy Young awards with a very low total of wins, which should tell you how much the stat is worth
Do you think Felix Hernandez wasn’t an ace because he lost a slew on one-run games?
Wins and loses are the result of a team effort. ERA reflects things that are out of a pitcher’s control, specifically defense. That’s why stats like FIP were created.
The bigger point is that no single stat is telling (enough) and some are more telling than others.
Wouldn’t exactly call 2012 recent lol
Felix has been trash RECENTLY lol
Yea Bob would t exactly use Justin Verlander to prove your point since almost every other stat is elite as well he is just a hall of fame pitcher. He is going to win because he is great simple as that but the fact is if your team doesn’t score for you in a given year then you will have a worse record then you should have. KCJ makes a good point so Felix and DeGrom shouldn’t of won the Cy young because they didn’t have good win loss records? They were the best pitchers even if they didn’t have elite win loss records. I’m just saying if you have a lot of wins it might be good to look under the hood. Porcello won the Cy he won a lot of games he want the best pitcher that year either. This mythical he is a winner is just that mythical look a little deeper and you will find winning pitchers are either really good at not giving up runs or they receive a lot of run support.
Typical for the start of a season. Starting pitchers don’t go long into games until they’ve had a few starts.
The bigger problem is the contraction of the minor league teams, right? If clubs were filling the same number of minor league roster spots, all these 21+ rounders would be free agents who could sign with anyone and fill out those farm teams.
Just curious… what top players would have gone undrafted if there were only 10 rounds? Sure, there would be an occasional guy that slips through… Piazza is always mentioned. But who else? And would they have been better off if all those players were free agents and free to negotiate with any team?
Also, might a team be tempted to surround a top pick with familiar faces from his college team? For instance, the 2018 Royals drafted 2 University of Florida pitchers in the first round. Brady Singer (18) and Jackson Kowar (33). If they wanted to have familiar faces for them, they could have signed Mike Byrne 14th round (409) and Nick Horvath 25th round (745) as free agents. Maybe the 4 would be able to grow as a group better than being split up among different teams?
Just making an observation.
Andre Dawson, Nolan Ryan, Albert Pujols, Dave Parker, the goat Jose Canseco, Kenny Lofton, Orel Hershiser, Piazza of course, Bret Saberhagen, Ryne Sandberg, Jeff Kent, Andy Pettitte, John Smoltz, Roy Oswalt, Mark Grace, Dusty Baker, Keith Hernandez, Mark Buehrle…the list is endless.
It’s not endless. Since 1998, when mlb expanded to it’s current 30 team format, just over 5 thousand players have made their major league debut. 23% of them were signed as international free agents, 49% of them were drafted in the first 10 rounds, and 14% were drafted in the 11th to 20th rounds. Only 14% were drafted after the 20th round or signed as a non-drafted free agents. The vast majority of that 14% failed to stay in the league for 3 or more years. The fact is, most MLB clubs are good at evaluating talent. Most often, the later rounds were being used on filler and picks of highschool kids who were never going to sign in the first place.
The filler will still be there, it’ll simply be signed as an NDFA. And it may actually work in their favor because they can shop their services now to 30 ballclubs instead of the singular one which drafted them. The bonuses for those types were already small (like 5K-20K$ small).
Pujols was 13th round, Dawson 11th round, Ryan 12th round, Parker 14th round, Lofton 17th round, etc…
Some of the others who were drafted post 20th were highschoolers, they would have very likely gone to college and been drafted in the top 20 rounds of a higher draft.
Nearly all of these guys would have still been drafted in a 20 round draft.
Endless? LOL I looked up Ryan and he was drafted in the 12th round in 1965. Hundreds of players were drafted after the 10th round… maybe a handful of decent players were chosen . Gene Garber and Gene Tenace in the 20th round. Freddie Patek in the 22nd… sure, some good players. But imagine if there was a free agency after the 10th round? Those players probably would have been picked up anyway.
8 people on this list did steroids, at least 4 others were jacked up on amphetamines
justkidding – I assume you’re talking about vtadave’s list. So there’s Canseco, Pettitte, and…who else?
Another way to look at it is the round 21+ players can negotiate as free agents, like the international players, with teams of their choice and not be restricted by a cap. Good for players in that situation but bad for teams with shallow pockets or management not willing to spend the money.
Undrafted players has a signing bonus cap of $20k, as it says at the end of this article. Once again, MLB players are doing little to nothing for minor leaguers and draftees.
At the end of the day, the MLBPA doesn’t include minor leaguers and draftees. It shouldn’t be the responsibility of the union to make sure non-union members are taken care of. The employers should be doing that on their own. Though I suppose if employers took care of their employees, we wouldn’t need unions.
Absolutely.
It really helps the Workers Of The World to have those advocates skimming from their personal cut in order to have some high priced “job” so they can have those conventions in Vegas where they get drunk & pursue ladies of the night.
Gosh.
Who doesn’t need all that, right?
What was the previous level of bonus for a player in round 26? 30? 37? I’m asking because I don’t know. Its possible that this is not a significant change. Teams will still be filling out their rosters.
“CEOs now earn 320 times as much as a typical worker.”
epi.org/publication/ceo-compensation-surged-14-in-…
While the MLBPA doesn’t directly represent minor leaguers or draftees, these signing bonuses are negotiated between the players and owners, so the players have a say in what happens to those that follow them. And I would hope they would remember their experiences coming up and would fight for better conditions, but that’s not been the case.
Then you should become a CEO.
do you have any idea how hard most ceos work ?
Also basic economics
More demand for a leader of a company and more skill required than a cashier or bus boy
Cashiers while a noble and honest living are common.
I’d rather join a union and get a fairer wage.
When a cashier sucks and gets fired they don’t get a $10m payout.
There was no max value bonus for later rounds, but anything over 125K$ counted against a team’s pool. Most college players taken in those rounds signed for much less than that, most of the highschoolers taken that late would not sign and instead go to college.
robluca21 – I think it’s safe to say CEOs don’t work 320 times harder than a cashier, bus boy, or anyone else.
Union workers being paid a “fairer wage” is an erroneous assumption on your part.
Independents get higher wages & no one is collecting dues. I know for a certainty that’s how it is in construction.
Now.
Get off my damn job site.
Numerous studies show that is incorrect. Looking at private union employees vs private non-union employees, the union employees almost always get better pay, have safer workplaces, and get better benefits as a whole. It’s exactly why big business spends billions of dollars every year trying to destroy unions.
Now if you want to compare private non-union employees to public union employees then you may have a valid statement. As most of their pay and benefits are capped by law.
@mrkinsm –
I’m genuinely curious about this. When I was a building tradesman (awhile ago now) there was much more money to be made as an independent. Now, this was during a building boom. So that may have been part of what was going on.
My tradesman do get paid better than union guys.
But, they are not hourly wage earners. Rather they get paid based upon what they do. Again, that may be a difference.
My google search led to a mixed bag of results either way. Do you have a specific study you can direct me towards? No sarcasm. Genuine curiosity.
robluca215 hours ago
do you have any idea how hard most ceos work ?
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Some of these people have no lives. I have a friend that was big in the publishing field. I asked him once how often he was on the road and he said two weeks a month. I had another friend working himself up to be a law partner. He was out every night entertaining clients, and looked like hell.
Everyone wants more money, but more money always, always comes with a price tag. The best payday I ever got came with a real cost. I won’t bore anyone with the details but I’ve missed events that I can never recapture. Once I dropped out of corporate life and started working for a non-for-profit, I got to see every one of my kids B-ball games.
The grass is not always greener.
Ducky, it is highly ironic that all the politicians who espouse views consistent with “fair wage” ideologies seem to always come out far, far ahead of all the “fair wage”earners though….. huh, wonder how that could be? Ooooohhhhh, they will say because “they work harder, and are not as common.” So, the fair wage stuff applies to just us little people, not the royalty in Washington though……. no thanks, I’ll stay with freedom – how about we don’t close stocks to the bottom dwellers when a lay person figures out how rich people invests?! How about that for fair?
Who cares? The ones that don’t get drafted will be FA’s and can sign with whomever they wish. It is actually better for the players that don’t get drafted.
Who in the last 30 years?
Actually there have not been very many 21+ rounders to make the major leagues. Most are like the Washington General are to the Harlem Globetrotters. They fill rosters and provide competition so the real prospects can develop. Now instead of wasting several years travelling the country in busses and chasing futility they can go to college and get a degree so they can set out on more realistic career paths. For the few that break through there are hundreds that wash out.
why the $#%& does it seem like all the comment sections are closed?
Because they are?
People had to discuss politics.
This one isn’t closed.
Because too many cancel-culture vultures here. I’ve had two comments rejected simply for referring to the other articles that had the comments closed.
Ridiculous.
MLB wonders why it’s losing revenue? It’s not because the late inning games. They don’t need to start a guy on second base in the 10th. They need to stay out of p0l0tics. They’re becoming an activist organization instead of an entertainment one.
Clipper – You’re free to start your own web site and post whatever you want there.
I agree. This crap goes away when the players start feeling it in the paychecks. The NFL issues have quieted down. I read yesterday “”Prior to the start of the 2020-2021 season, NBA commissioner Adam Silver announced that the league would no longer place social justice messages on the courts or jerseys.”.
They couldn’t do this without the agreement of African-American players. Since the players get a percentage of the revenue, and saw how much their actions were affecting their paycheck, they decided their paycheck counted more than their moral convictions.
You can tell MLBR to kill my comments now, but it is worth saying it. I’ve already canceled my MLB subscription for the year. That’s one they cannot stop.
GBS: It was a relevant post pertaining to information about MLB regarding an article in MLBTR, which is a site I pay for. I could understand if it were something unrelated (even then to cancel based on ideology is unacceptable). I’m guessing you agree otherwise you would have a problem with it.
Either way, this is the devolution on a microcosm level. I cannot even comment on a topic that is 100 percent appropriate, simply because it doesn’t align with the societal minority view that is being shoved down everyone’s throats.
And…… MLBTR did the article on it. This is a major problem for MLB. Whether you agree with it personally or not. Rise above your 3-foot view and see how damaging this can be before you cheer it on.
I canceled my MLB subscription yesterday. And if this crap keeps up, my MLBTR subscription is next. Cancel culture can work both ways.
Clipper – Commenting is free for everyone, no membership required, and MLBTR has the right to close or delete any comments it chooses. It’s a private business. I understand the desire to express your views, but MLBTR doesn’t have to let you post them here. They don’t have to have commenting at all. Some sites don’t.
I don’t know if they were COVID-related posts you were referencing or something else, but COVID posts have had comments closed for a long time because they quickly devolved into political debates, not baseball ones.
If it’s about the All-Star Game move, well again, they can close comments on any post they want. This one likely would turn into a mess of insults and politics quickly.
I’m not even sure what you’re referencing as my “3-foot view” and “how damaging this can be.” The ability to comment? MLB’s decision?
If it’s the former, I’ve made my opinion known. If it’s the latter, I’m not going to get into this here out of respect for MLBTR’s decision to close comments on it.
Okay, to clarify it’s the ASG article, and it didn’t violate any rules of TR site. To say “They can delete any comment they choose” is a tidy way to say they can play partisan politics with our comments – not so when it comes to open articles on a neutral topic.
Your 3-foot view specifically pertains to the above. The fact that people are permitting the steady narrowing of any speech that even suggests the mere questioning of a social justice direction, is immediately shut down. And you are okay with that on a neutral site when it’s directly related to the topic. I take issue.
Yes, free to comment. Yes, they have control over comments. The “feel free to start your own site” stupidity is a lame response to a real issue people like you are too afraid to stand up for. Thank God we’ve been here to fight for your freedom. Think of your world without it.
You seem to be assuming they blocked the comments to keep one side of the debate from commenting. This keeps both/any/all sides from commenting.
And saying I post stupidity while you say, “Thank God we’ve been here to fight for your freedom” must make you feel pretty superior. I’m firmly in favor of protecting our rights and freedoms, but this isn’t a violation of anyone’s rights or a free speech violation/restriction. It’s a private business choosing to post news while not having to deal with the chaos of managing a comment section full of political debate. It’s actually an exercising of their freedoms.
Ideologically, I”m with you, @Clip.
It’s frustrating because this should be a unique environment (we are all baseball fans – therefore common ground exists) where sports is a vehicle to discuss larger issues.
We have shown time after time however that we don’t treat this opportunity with the respect we should. Or could. I am as guilty as anyone. I’ll run across a post by whyhaze claiming the military is racist & if he was in the same room as me, I’d smack him. He didn’t serve. Bugs me so much.
Or cey hay – whom by his own admission could go back to work but hasn’t out of fear – doing his woke stuff & I’d smack him too if I could.
That “smack him” sentiment clearly shines through in my responses. Those dudes should really be pitied – if anything. They’re lost. They need understanding & help. Not a smackeroo.
The thing is, no one is interested in a respectful dialogue. So it’s really all rather pointless. I really thought that – one way or another – we would all start moving forward after the election.
That has not happened.
It’s unfortunate.
Man.
& people wonder why all I want to do is go hunting & fishing, sailing, riding…ya know?
No people.
I am starting to hate everyone, man.
I am just so damn weary of all the fighting. & what is it getting any of us?
Ever since I was in the Balkans, I’ve known how awful people really are. So this really shouldn’t be some kind of surprise.
Btw, gbs42 – in my experience at least – is typically a pretty level headed poster. For whatever that worth.
Ducky – Very well said. If only we could have a respectful dialogue, but that’s very uncommon. And like you, I’m guilty sometimes myself.
On a lighter note, best of luck to your team this season. It’s great to have baseball that counts back.
Sure is, ain’t it, man?
I’m a Yankees fan. So Great Expectations.
Best luck to your squad as well, man.
Youre username definitely gives away your fandom. Always great expectations in the Bronx.
I’m a Cardinals fan just hoping they can make it to the postseason this year and see what happens.
Cardinals are the Yankees of the Midwest.
You guys are always relevant, could never tank, & have fantastic classic uniforms.
brodie-bruce & I were talking about that a few weeks ago.
Like the Yanks, you also seem to be short a starting pitcher.
“There’s also been talk of an NFL-style combine of sorts….”
Oh, sure. Why not? Let’s try to be just like the NFL. Manfred is a failure.
Some times of some games-
Yankees 3:44
Brewers 4:14
Cubs 4:00
Phillies 3:33
Padres 3:26
Reds 3:31
Rockies 3:46
Mariners 3:45
Royals 4;26
I loved every minutes of the games I did watch and was in zero hurry.
Anything to upset Manfred should be done.
as a Phillies fan ive never understood those who claim the recent measures have sped up the game. feel like every year our games are always amongst the longest.
It’s about time we finally get some data to overanalyze!
It would be interesting to see a combine of sorts for the MLB draft. A weekend of the best upcoming draft talent playing their hearts out for a few innings would be great entertainment.
Here’s to hoping that the Pirates FO blindly follows Twitter’s advice and drafts Rocker because my favorite player of the Lawlar, Leiter, and Rocker trio is FAR AND AWAY Leiter. The dude does everything right. Let’s go Rangers!
In all the mock drafts I keep seeing TEX pegged with Lawler and shake my head how they could ever pass up Leiter. Rocker is more proven, but Leiter is pure, unadulterated plastic-sleeve so the lil’ ones aren’t scared-filth.
yeah I dont know how they dont go 1-2. just far and away better then the rest of the gang.
honestly, I hope the draft gets reduced to something like 10 rounds. I want to see more talent start to bolster the independent leagues and make them more viable – I mean that is how baseball was before mlb became the juggernaut it is now
Let’s all chip in five bucks and get the Federal League going again.
I’m ready to see the rise of alternative leagues ! I’ll take the fam to a game or 3 if they are close
Yep. Love baseball. Does not have to be MLB.
I’m making plans to watch Little Leagues in my area.
20 less then it should be, but still more the i expected.
Unfortunate that the players chose not to negotiate with the owners this year. They think they are protecting their bargaining position for the end of the collective agreement, but they just gave away a lot of things that they could have had for no return.
No.
Pirates probably takes Leiter number one. See you in the Bronx like Cole eventually.
I’m staying away from the political. Smaller drafts fits in with smaller minors, fits in with owners looking to cut costs. Some quality will be sacrificed, some talent not given the opportunity, but MLB is always looking for a buck, and COVID has given them the chance. The next CBA is going to be brutal.
I’m looking forward to who the White Sox pick. World Series or bust for the Sox! Let’s go Sox!
World Series or Bust for the White Sox?? LoL. The window is open for awhile they have a great young team. They could use a catcher to replace McCann. How about Sanchez for a few bucket of balls.
Absolutely not.
Have you seen Phat Sancho this spring? Did you watch him play – ya know – yesterday?
Been telling you guys for the last 5 months that Gary is going to come back strong. He’s now had over a year to work with Tanner Swanson. He looks way more comfortable with the “knee down” stance. He spent all winter playing ball. This is a 2X All Star, man. & he was down in the Dominican Republic working.
Gary Sanchez is going to be an integral part of any success we have.
I don’t know why you always want to trade our good players. Glevber, Judge, etc.
These are good players, man.
Just stop with this stuff, bro.
It’s unseemly & makes you seem to have a very limited understanding of baseball.
It’s possible. The Sox are loaded. Yes, they have to get past the vaunted Yankees (much easier said than done), but once you make the playoffs, anything can happen. I’m just glad the Sox are relevant again.
Better than 5 rounds
Participate in a 6 team scrimmage & then as a player you get hurt or have a bad showing. No thank you.
This could have an unintended trickle down effect to college programs and below. With a significantly lower chance of being drafted, how many players will opt for the education over playing baseball? Very few athletes can do as well academically when their lives are consumed with their sport as in the NCAA Division I programs. I’m not saying it will change, but it might.
Yes, it will improve the collegiate ranks. But it’ll be a minimal effect.
In past 40 round drafts only about 1/2 of the players drafted in the 21st rounds and later actually signed; they were full of premium highschool kids who were destined for college already. So that’s a maximum of about 300 players who would have been drafted and signed in the past, via those rounds, that won’t get drafted now. Some of them will return to college, many of them will simply sign as NDFA’s and enter organized ball just like they would have if drafted, some will go too INDY ball, and a few others will start a career away from baseball. The biggest boost to the college ranks will probably be undrafted Juniors returning for their senior year….that’s not necessarily a bad thing.
In 2019, it was 37.6% of those drafted in round 21 or later that didn’t sign. And it was 54.3% of those drafted in round 28 or later.
Amateurs always get the shaft.
Union and league don’t care.
I love the draft league idea and hate capping bonuses at $20k while shortening the draft.
Let guys who do undrafted earn a bigger bonus than a new car.
How many will get offered huge deals?
The riskiest ones.
Silly to me, to limit undrafted bonuses.
People need to keep in mind that a sizable number of players drafted after round 20 don’t sign. I went through 2019’s draft (the last 40 round draft) and 37.6% of those taken in round 21 or later didn’t sign. And if you look at round 28 and later, 54.3% didn’t sign.
Over half drafted in rounds 28 through 40 did not sign.
Just out of curiosity, how many of the folks that are aghast that BB only drafts 20 rounds, have a problem with the NFL only drafting 7 rounds? Or the NBA drafting only 2 rounds?
IMHO, I really like the NFL version. You draft enough to be able to get some meaningful players, but there is just enough left on the table where the UDFAs have options of signing with teams where they have the best chance of sticking.
I will not watch the All Star game because of MLB’s playing politics with the state of Georgia.
I will cut back my presence on MLB trade rumors because of their craven concession to the woke left and not allowing baseball fans to comment on it.
I will not purchase MLB season ticket this year.
I probably will not attend any games in person….I live between NY and Boston.
It’s probably meaningless, nevertheless, I don’t have much power but will wield the little that do.
Yeah, what he said…
Don’t let the door hit your butt on the way out, Zippy.
The MLB will cave to the revenue threat. The NFL has. The NBA has. The Academy Awards and Golden Globes tried to clean up their act, but they were already toast. When the ASG ratings tank, and they will, and the WS ratings get threatened, which they will, both the players and the owners will back off their threats.
The pajama bun bois are louder, but they have no money.
@&$? Manfred