Hurrah for me as a fantasy player, Evan Longoria got called up.
Boorah for me as a baseball fan, I have no idea how to describe the arbitration clock to my grandchildren. Until now.
There are a couple of things in baseball that are an important part of business and game strategy decisions (and possibly groundbreaking) but aren’t well understood by the average fan. The antitrust exemption, the positive important rise and negative destructive greed of the union, the notion of a pitcher’s hold (seriously, when somebody can give allow two runs, record just one out, and leave in the middle of the inning, and get a bunch of statistical high fives, there’s something wrong), and salary arbitration. (more…)
