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MLB players frustrated by league’s deadlines, but ‘solid in where they stand’

Major League Baseball declared Tuesday the deadline to play a full 162-game season and thus pay players for a full year of work. This came eight days after a league-imposed deadline to play Opening Day as scheduled and 97 days after the expiration of a previous collective bargaining agreement, which triggered the owner-imposed lockout. The […]

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The Playbook, Inning 8: Advanced stats to use for fantasy baseball

Baseball is such a different game today than it was when rotisserie was first invented. Back in 1980, most anyone interested in baseball was lured in by such “bubblegum card” numbers as batting average, home runs, wins and ERA. Over the years, the brightest minds in the game brought to light the fact that there […]

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The Playbook, Inning 7: Fantasy baseball managers must adjust to real-life trends

It has been quite the past two years in the baseball world. But really, hasn’t it been that in the real world, too? So, it’s only fitting that baseball serves as a parallel. Inning 1: Fantasy baseball 101 Inning 2: League formats Inning 3: Salary-cap drafts Inning 4: Preparation Inning 5: Roster optimization Inning 6: […]

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Los Angeles Dodgers’ Trevor Bauer won’t face criminal charges stemming from allegations of sexual assault, DA’s Office says

Editor’s note: This article contains graphic details. Dodgers pitcher Trevor Bauer will not be criminally charged by Los Angeles prosecutors, the L.A. County District Attorney’s Office said Tuesday. The ruling concludes a five-month review of the case, which stems from sexual assault allegations made against Bauer by a San Diego woman who sought a restraining […]

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Report: MLB payrolls drop 4% to 2015 levels

Falling payrolls have sparked the labor unrest that led to the sport’s first work stoppage in more than a quarter-century this month, when the collective bargaining agreement expired and owners locked out the players Dec. 2. Payrolls are down 4.6% from their record high of just under $4.25 billion in 2017, the first year of […]

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Clayton Kershaw ‘will always have a spot’ with Los Angeles Dodgers, Andrew Friedman says

CARLSBAD, Calif. — The Los Angeles Dodgers’ decision not to tender a qualifying offer to Clayton Kershaw is not an indication that the team is predisposed to letting him leave. Quite the opposite, it seems. “We’ve made it very clear that if Kershaw wants to come back, he will always have a spot,” Dodgers president […]

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Atlanta Braves’ Marcell Ozuna has MLB administrative leave extended through Friday, source says

Ozuna is currently participating in a diversion program that he entered in a pretrial resolution on Sept. 9, more than three months after being arrested on assault charges after allegedly assaulting his wife. He faces misdemeanor charges of family violence battery and simple assault, but when he entered the diversion program, a Fulton County deputy […]

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Source: Los Angeles Dodgers P Trevor Bauer’s season is over as MLB administrative leave extended through postseason

What had evolved into an inevitability became an official ruling Friday, when Major League Baseball and the MLB Players Association agreed to extend Trevor Bauer‘s administrative leave through what remains of the 2021 season, a league official told ESPN. Bauer, who has been away from the Los Angeles Dodgers since MLB first began a separate […]

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Source: Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Trevor Bauer’s administrative leave extended again by MLB

Major League Baseball has extended Trevor Bauer‘s administrative leave an eighth time for an additional week, a league official told ESPN’s Alden Gonzalez. The leave now runs through Sept. 10. The Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher has been accused of sexual assault by a woman who has said Bauer choked her unconscious multiple times, sodomized her […]

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Will Trevor Bauer ever pitch again? What’s next for him, the Los Angeles Dodgers and MLB

Editor’s note: This story contains graphic descriptions of sexual assault allegations. In the two months since Trevor Bauer last appeared in a game for the Los Angeles Dodgers, his future — legally and professionally — has been the source of great speculation around Major League Baseball. With a California judge rejecting a woman’s request for […]

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