2011-2012 MLB Off-Season Thread

[Miamarlin21]

d. Active Roster limits will be expanded to 26 for certain regular or split doubleheaders.

Never heard a rumor about this.
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Also this:

A. Only Players who have been with their Clubs for the entire season will be subject
to compensation.

[Beef]

Alrighty

[Miamarlin21]

2. Drafted players may only sign Minor League contracts.

That's gonna change things.
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Watch out LoMo:

b. All Players will be subject to a policy governing the use of Social Media.

[MiamiHomer]

UPDATE#2: As part of the new Lottery within the Draft, some picks can now be traded

The picks for the new Competitive Balance Lottery – which represents a small number of picks – are assignable (tradable). The Competitive Balance Lottery will be active for 2013. There will only be certain times of the year when those picks can be traded.

For the Competitive Balance Lottery, it’s six picks after the first round and six picks after the second round.

UPDATE: Here are more details around how the Signing Bonus Pool works within the Draft:

The range of the Signing Bonus Pool is from $4.5 million-$11.5 million.
The more picks a club has, the larger the pool becomes that the club will have to work with.
The size of the pools will standardize more from club to club after next year’s class of free agents.
The size of the pools will be dependent on the number of picks a club has in a given year and where those picks fall within each round. A club with the first pick of the Draft will have the largest pool.

Inside MLB's New 5-Year Labor Agreement

[Miamarlin21]

Arizona Diamondbacks (National League) - Named Jay Bell hitting coach for Mobile (SL), Jacob Cruz hitting coach for Visalia (Cal), Jason Camilli hitting coach for Yakima (NWL), Andy Green manager and JR House hitting coach for Missoula (Frontier), Robby Hammock hitting coach for the Arizona League Diamondbacks, Jeff Pico minor league field coordinator and Mel Stottlemyre Jr. minor league pitching coordinator.

Former players now on the other side.

[emkayseven]

Glad you didn't point out jay bell who was far and away the best one in that group

[Omar]

Inside MLB's New 5-Year Labor Agreement

Wooooooo

[MiamiHomer]

Click on the link Omar just quoted. That's as close to cliff notes you will get.

[MiamiHomer]

jonmorosi Jon Morosi
Source tells FOXSports.com Grady Sizemore has passed physical, deal is done with #Indians -- $5M base salary with $4M in incentives.

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[HUGG]

I'm pretty sure I remember Ramp and I arguing with one or two people here who were trying to say we could get him for less than 2 million.

I'm too lazy to look it up.

[Party]

Another safety change is a bit more controversial in that agreed that no new players will be permitted to use a low density maple bat during the term of the agreement. That means that players currently in the league will be “grandfathered” in – allowed to still use them until they leave the game. If the policy remains over the life of the next agreement set to begin at the end of 2016, maple bats as we know them will be gone from the game. The argument has been that these bats shatter more easily and when that happens, shards could impale players and fans. At the Winter Meetings in 2008, a comprehensive study was released by the league that found that inconclusive. Stuck in the middle is an entire industry of maple bat makers that may have to close shop or switch to ash. It will be interesting to see how they react, and The Biz of Baseball will be looking for feedback from them when they are at the Trade Show at the upcoming Winter Meetings.

I didn't know this.

[Chewford]

Apparently the Baltimore Orioles signed the SK Wyverns' closer.

[HUGG]

Chong Tae-Hyon?

[Beef]

Hi Hugg

[Chewford]

Chong Tae-Hyon?

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