As the lockout continues, the two parties have only met once, on Thursday, December 16, and apparently achieved nothing of any import. It’s unlikely there will be any further meetings until after the holidays.
CBS Sports quotes The Athletic:
A union source said Wednesday that since the sides met in Texas in the days leading up to the lockout, the union hasn’t heard from the league on any key economic issues. Now, the union hasn’t reached out on those issues either. But the MLBPA’s lead negotiator, Bruce Meyer, made clear when the lockout started the union felt it was incumbent on MLB to issue the next counterproposal.
Delaying any meaningful talks until January means that the two sides will have about a month before spring training is scheduled to begin. That will create pressure on both sides.
In other news, the Mets hired Buck Showalter as their new manager. He’s 1,551-1,517 (.506) with the Yankees, Diamondbacks, Rangers and Orioles in 20 big league seasons. Showalter is 64 years old.
The social ramble continues:
https://twitter.com/DodgersNation/status/1476681552712986645
The Clemente Conundrum – https://twitter.com/mlbtraderumors/status/1477053653391482881?s=20
Sanford turns 86 today. https://twitter.com/DodgerYard/status/1476623503071842306?s=20
Just ordered a Corey Seager bobblehead {sigh} so I can look up at my shelf and forever see him in Dodger Blue.
I always felt ambivalent about Seager, mainly because of his defense and frequent injuries. I also wonder whether his brother’s abrupt decllne may have caused the Dodgers to question a long-term contract.
I think the front office was willing to resign him even with a fairly long contract (supposedly up to 8 years), but Texas offer of ten years was too rich. Heck, the Rangers gave 30-year old Marcus Semien a 7-year contract!
Update on the Seager family, https://twitter.com/mlbtraderumors/status/1476263049917087748?s=20
Cal State East Bay profiles its alum who reached the Dodgers. https://www.ebtoday.com/stories/a-major-league-pioneer
Mele Kalikimaka to all!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6XAVi1btW0
Wishing you all a very happy and safe holiday season. Hope your Dodger stocking is stuffed with another WS championship.
Thinking of Link (the late John Prine is not subject to Rule No. 1 penalties). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_vTY67Wd9I
Never heard THAT before!
You’ve apparently lived a sheltered existence.
I’ve not spent much time listening to Prine, that’s for sure.
Oh, for the good old days of the reserve clause… https://vault.si.com/vault/1967/05/15/the-great-holdout
I think that’s pretty self-serving memory on Bavasi’s part.
I do not suffer from irony deficiency.