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Front-Loaded Contracts in Baseball

The 2018 off-season got a bad rep for the lack of big signings and a lackluster of free agent deals. As spring training opens, there are still marquee players such as Jake Arrieta and Mike Moustakas who have yet to find a team for 2019. The problem isn’t questionable talent; it is questionable long-term money. […]

What Baseball Player Turns Down $15.3 Million?

There are 12 baseball players who turned down $15.3 million Monday afternoon. They were all free agents who received qualifying offers of that amount to stay with their current clubs. By declining the one-year offer each received, they all become free agents and are eligible to sign with any ball club. One of those players, […]

Baseball is Still About the Money

If you are a Boston Red Sox fan, odds are you do not like the New York Yankees – at all.  You might even use words like loathe, despise, and hate.  If you are a New York Yankees fan, you reciprocate those exact feelings right back to those fans in red.  Unless you have a […]

5 Reasons the Cardinals and Red Sox Are a Bad World Series Match-Up

The 2013 Fall Classic is finally here, although baseball has extended its season so much that the World Series is almost played exclusively in November.  The Boston Red Sox defeated the Detroit Tigers despite Detroit’s formidable 1-2 punch of Max Scherzer and Justin Verlander and sluggers Prince Fielder and Miguel Cabrera.  In the National League, […]