Let’s set the scene. After committing over $1.7 billion in guaranteed salaries to 50 players in the span of two weeks, Major League Baseball’s 30 owners claimed they are too poor — and pandemic-related losses too great—to satisfy the players’ ever-increasing financial demands, thus instituting the league’s first work stoppage…

Welcome back to week three of the Waiver Claim! After introducing the project in week one, I broke down the how and the why of basic MLB roster rules last week. Be sure to give those posts a read before jumping into this one. When I began planning out the…

Welcome back to another installment of the Waiver Claim! Last week, I laid out the plan for this five-week blogging project. This week, we’ll jump right into our topic: an overview of the roster rules that impact Major League Baseball. It sounds like a silly question, but have you ever…

I couldn’t tell you the exact moment that baseball was introduced into my life, but the moment the flip switched and became my life is one of the most vivid memories from my early childhood. Somewhere between the 2005 and 2006 MLB seasons, I pushed the toy trucks and coloring…