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Jim Callis / Baseball America:
Draft Cap May Not Be So Harsh — When Major League Baseball and the MLB Players Association announced a new five-year Collective Bargaining Agreement today, including several changes to the draft, reaction from club executives and player agents was as swift as a Justin Verlander fastball.
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Paul White / USA Today:
What's new in baseball's new labor deal? — The negotiating path to baseball's new labor deal might have been the smoothest ever between the once-contentious sides. But it's full of significant changes for fans. — Realignment, expanded playoffs, more replay, testing …
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Maury Brown / The Biz of Baseball:
Inside MLB's New 5-Year Labor Agreement — Here are the details of the new 5-year labor deal just announced by MLB and the MLBPA: — I.. TERM — a. Five-year contract — b. December 1, 2016 termination date — II.. SCHEDULING,, REALIGNMENT,, AND POSTSEASON PLAY — a.
Rob Neyer / Baseball Nation:
The Zen Master And Amateur Baseball Players — Wow. Five more years of labor peace ensured, zero public rancor between the owners and the players, and yet all anyone's talking about in the TwitterBlogoSphere is how terrible the new Collective Bargaining Agreement is.
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Washington Post, It's About The Money, Kings of Kauffman and baseballmusings.com
Fox Sports:
MLB deal a dagger to small-market teams — The deal got done, and that fact overrides every other. As the NBA will learn, labor peace alone carries great value, helps a sport achieve continued growth. — Unfortunately for baseball, low-revenue teams got trampled in its new collective …
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The Captain's Blog and Baseball Time in Arlington
Baseball America:
New Labor Deal Features Major Draft Changes
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Scranton/Wilkes-Barre …, Yahoo! Sports and Steve Melewski
Dave Cameron / FanGraphs Baseball:
Did a Steinbrenner Write the New CBA?
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Ben Nicholson-Smith / MLB Rumors:
Highlights From The New CBA — The effects of Major League Baseball's …
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Ben Nicholson-Smith / MLB Rumors:
CBA Details: Luxury Tax, Draft, HGH, Replay
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Craig Calcaterra / HardballTalk:
Let's not call the new collective bargaining agreement a success just yet
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Mets Merized Online and Al's Ramblings
Peter Abraham / Boston Globe:
A few details from the new CBA
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Gaslamp Ball and Bluebird Banter
George A. King III / New York Post:
Yankees' Rivera hints 2012 could be final season — Mariano Rivera, while he waits to find out if he needs a surgical procedure done on his vocal cords, speculated on Tuesday that 2012 could be the final year of his career. — “I don't know what will happen,” said the Yankees closer …
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Barbara Barker / Newsday:
Mariano Rivera may need surgery on vocal cords — NEW ROCHELLE — Mariano Rivera may have the right arm of a 30-year-old. His vocal cords, however, are another story. — A raspy-voiced Rivera revealed Tuesday at a charity event at his restaurant here that he might need surgery to repair his vocal cords.
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Peter Abraham / Boston Globe:
Deadline arrives on arbitration offer for Ortiz — There is some baseball business to handle on Thanksgiving eve. Teams have until 11 p.m. (EST) to offer their free agents arbitration. — David Ortiz joins Albert Pujols, Prince Fielder, C.J. Wilson, Roy Oswalt, Jose Reyes and Jimmy Rollins …
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Dan Hayes / North County Times:
PADRES: Team acquires catcher Baker for LeBlanc — The Padres have strengthened their catching situation with the acquisition of John Baker from the Miami Marlins on Tuesday in exchange for pitcher Wade LeBlanc. — Baker is two-plus years removed from reconstructive elbow surgery …
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Mike Axisa / MLB Rumors:
Marlins, Padres Swap John Baker For Wade LeBlanc
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Globe and Mail:
Sizemore reaches one-year deal with Indians — Grady Sizemore's trip into free agency didn't take him far. — The Cleveland Indians have agreed to terms with the former all-star outfielder on a one-year, incentive-based contract. It's a deal that could work for both sides if he can stay healthy and on the field.
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Bob Nightengale / USA Today:
Scott Boras says new draft rules will ‘hurt all of baseball’ — Major League Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig and players association head Michael Weiner struck congratulatory and conciliatory tones at a Tuesday news conference announcing a new collective bargaining agreement.
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Sports Illustrated:
New CBA extends period of peace but isn't without drawbacks
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Barry M. Bloom / MLB.com:
MLB, union announce five-year labor deal
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Hardball Times, Minor League Ball and Batter's Box Interactive …
Bill Plaschke / Los Angeles Times:
Writers strike out not choosing Matt Kemp as MVP — Dodgers outfielder should have been the National League winner instead of Milwaukee's Ryan Braun, whom voters apparently favored because the Brewers won the Central Division. — He didn't play for a division champion …
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Max Marchi / Hardball Times:
The 2011 Yogi Berra Award — Awards are presented in November, and for the third time, The Hardball Times is going to name the Yogi Berra Award winner. — The great Yankee catcher used to swing at everything, and when asked about his habit of swinging at bad pitches …
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Dejan Kovacevic / PittsburghLIVE.com:
Baseball sticks it to Pirates — There was an awful lot of backslapping going on Tuesday at Major League Baseball's news conference in Manhattan over a new five-year collective bargaining agreement. I'll have to presume Yankee Stadium was booked. — Twenty-one years of labor peace, the suits crowed.
