The MLB lockout is finally over! That means we’re about to experience an unprecedented free agent and trade frenzy leading up to Opening Day on April 7. Head on over to MLB Trade Rumors (@mlbtraderumors on Twitter) to keep up with all of the action!
There are still many big-name free agents who will have to sign new contracts soon, from Carlos Correa to Freddie Freeman to Kris Bryant and many more.
The trade market will be active too! Matt Olson of the A’s is the top name expected to be on the move. The A’s, Reds, and Mets will likely be in the thick of it.
Check out MLB Trade Rumors for all of the latest hot stove action! Just before the lockout began, it was one of the wildest flurries of offseason activity in recent memory, and the post-lockout frenzy might take it up a notch! Follow the action on Facebook and Twitter.
Glad it is over. Speaking of CBA when is the one up for the NBA. Hopefully will not see something like baseball did. I think it is either this upcoming season or season after that. But am curious can it be worked on or anything before it comes due. Or extended.
The NBA’s CBA runs through the 2023/24 season, though both sides have the ability to opt out after 2022/23.
So, no scab teams? Damn.
Your dreams of Houston vs *Texas WS have been ripped open.
Go Padres! Woot woot and Clippers
Oh great now A’s fans will hear all those bad trade offers for Olson. Our back up 1B, 5th starter and a low A ball prospect for Olson.
I completely understand. My team is in the same division with Mets and Phillies fans.
Just yesterday a Mets fan said the Mets should acquire Alcantara from the Marlins. He didn’t say for what, but I’m sure it was either for one of their 28-year old Single A prospects or probably straight up for their favorite trade chip, Robinson Cano.
Arc89…Get a clue…The A’s have been trading away every successful player they have had since 1972. They don’t want to pay players. They have been trading away players for the past 50 years. It has nothing to do with the Stadium. The A’s don’t want to win. They are just a marketing scheme.
They try to win. Every year they’re in playoff contention they acquire a star on an expiring contract. That isn’t not trying to win. Their window is very small. So when they don’t hit it, they tear down and rebuild. It’s what a lot of small market teams have to do, it’s nothing new. But they’re good at what they do, which is why every few years they’re back in contention.
How is Oakland a ‘small market’? Last I looked Bay Area metro was one of the largest markets in the country.
Oakland is a small baseball market. Why? I found this on google for you …
“Oakland is part of a three-city media market with San Francisco and San Jose, and by far the smallest and poorest of the three. “
It’s widely known and written that they’re a small market. I didn’t make that up.
@arc89. The biggest problem the A’s has always been the Owners. The A’s have been working to cut costs for the past 50 years. Charlie Finley tried to trade away every good player team had. He didn’t want pay players. He was an advocate of Free Agency before Curt Flood.
The biggest problem the A’s have is their “fans” not showing up.
Last year they were in contention most of the season and finished next to last in attendance.
They can build a new park thinking that will cure it, then they’ll find that they should have looked at what happened to the Marlins after they built a new park thinking that would cure attendance problems.
Go Marlins and Heat!
Thank heavens!
All the posts here putting down how badly MLB is run compared to the NBA and NFL are so off base it’s comical.
Both the NBA and NFL are basically money grabs, with the NBA being far, far worse. The games rule changes to promote attention-grabbing plays have taken all integrity out of the two sports.
o It’s impossible to go deep in the playoffs in the NFL without a top 10 QB…..meaning that 2/3’rd of local NFL fans can have the best D and/or the best rushing game, but without a top QB they’re going nowhere.
o The judgement calls are a joke. No one can figure out what a valid catch is. Then there’s the great playoff game that ended because one team won a coin toss.
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The NBA has morphed into a total circus – no integrity in the sport at any level, and no consideration for local fans other than in large markets.
The good players want to play with their friends (in large markets). The better players push around their coaching staffs, FO’s, and owners, and try to do it with the referees.
The NBA regular season is a total joke. 20 out of 30 teams make the playoffs – meaning any team that doesn’t totally stink (at least the NFL calls them “Wild Card Games” as opposed to a “Tournament Play-In”) is in. And now the Commissioner wants an “In-Season Tournament”. ? Consequently teams (rightly) treat the regular season as pretty much inconsequential, resting players and having them sit out an extended time with even minor injuries as the goal to be heathy in April when the playoffs start. I have no idea why a sports fan would pay the exorbitant admission costs (and parking, concession sales , etc.) to attend a regular season game that is nothing more than and exhibition / pre-season game / tune-up for the playoffs, unless they have nothing of value to do with their lives other than show off the money they make.
The soap opera / drama / trash talking of other players. Gads, I have to put up with Stephen A. Smith doing his poor Howard Cosell imitation with the veins sticking out of his neck every time I go into the dressing room at the club I work out at 4-5 times a week. Overhead TV’s are to tuned to ESPN (does Smith ever go home?) with loud audio and no one watching them. Fortunately, that’s why God invented headphones – although I still hear the garbage when I have to take off the headset to get my sweaty shirt off.
Ok, then why are you here again?