Category: MLB

Reading Time: 2 minutesAs Major League Baseball (MLB) and MLB Players Association (MLBPA) have failed to agree, it seems like a good time to explain what collective bargaining is, and how we got here. To understand the situation that the MLB and the MLBA find themselves in today, it is important to understand the history of collective bargaining in the United States. At the turn of the 20th Century, the United States was in the middle of an extensive industrial revolution. The revolution changed the economy of the US, moving it from a country reliant on farming to one...

Reading Time: 4 minutesThe time has come yet again for baseball Twitter to spend the next several months eviscerating the Baseball Writers Association of America, also known as the BBWAA, and rightfully so. Even though the deserved criticism will be intensified due to the lockout, year after year the BBWAA lets down the entire baseball world by ignoring deserving players in favor of creating a popularity contest, wasting their selections on “strategic” votes, and taking a delusional moral high ground so unprecedented that it appears nowhere else in sports. Why are these issues inherently problematic? Let me explain. In...