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There has never been a time that I could see salary caps in sports as being wholly a good thing. Leaning back on my long history of examining Major League Baseball, for over a decade I have written that the current system in place was best for the players and owners. In many ways, this exemplifies what Forbes has been about. Free market without a lot of regulating, works. MLBPA…

Towers: Yoan Moncada gets a path forward The Winter Meetings officially started Monday, but things really got underway with the Red Sox acquisition of Chris Sale. Chris Towers is covering the prospects joining the White Sox while this piece will focus on what the move from Chicago to Boston will mean for Sale. Sale has been among the best pitchers in baseball over the past three seasons, but in 2016…

The holidays approacheth! This, of course, means it’s time to burn through some discretionary income so as to provide your near and dear with some material uplift. In the event that a righteous baseball enthusiast is among your near and dear, we’re here to help with some gift recommendations. Lo and also behold: What follows is the 2016 baseball holiday gift guide. Within this internet dispatch you’ll find baseball-themed durable…

Facebook Twitter Pinterest Email print comment Claire Smith, the first African-American female newspaper reporter to cover Major League Baseball on a daily basis, has won the J.G. Taylor Spink Award, the top honor for a baseball writer. The Spink Award goes to a writer for “meritorious contributions to baseball writing” and is presented during Hall of Fame Weekend, July 28-31, 2017, in Cooperstown, New York. The announcement, based on balloting…

FILE – In a Wednesday, Oct. 5, 2016 file photo, Boston Red Sox general manager Dave Dombrowski looks on during practice in Cleveland. The big-spending Boston Red Sox could be far more conservative this offseason because of baseball’s new luxury tax rules. President of baseball operations Dave Dombrowski said Monday, Dec. 5, 2016, that the new collective bargaining agreement’s stricter penalties for spending above a certain payroll threshold could factor…

Whether or not Dodge actually returns to NASCAR at some point in the future – a possibility that was raised by an executive of Dodge’s parent company recently – it’s important to remember that the manufacturer went out on top when it left the sport in 2012. Thanks to driver Brad Keselowski, Dodge was able to part ways with NASCAR at the end of that season as a champion. It…

Just as NASCAR conducts an annual year-end ceremony, SB Nation does the same. But whereas NASCAR’s official gala is a staid, button downed affair, SBN’s fictional awards shindig features fewer tuxedos, an open bar, a musical act that isn’t eligible for Social Security (i.e., Sting, who played the Sprint Cup banquet on Friday) and the doling out of hardware in a variety of categories honoring the best of what NASCAR…

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Facebook Twitter Pinterest Email print comment Claire Smith, the first African-American female newspaper reporter to cover Major League Baseball on a daily basis, has won the J.G. Taylor Spink Award, the top honor for a baseball writer. The Spink Award goes to a writer for “meritorious contributions to baseball writing” and is presented during Hall of Fame Weekend, July 28-31, 2017, in Cooperstown, New York. The announcement, based on balloting…

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Photo credit: Pablo Martinez Monsivais/AP Bryce Harper won’t be a free agent until after the 2018 season, but that doesn’t mean it’s too early for everyone to start stressing the hell out over how much money he is going to cost. According to USA Today’s Bob Nightengale, the Nationals have already started discussing a possible extension with Harper, and they are feeling faint. Advertisement According to Nightengale, who cites a…

Bubba Watson, seemingly wherever he goes, is like a kid in a candy store — preferably his own, Bubba’s Sweet Spot — as he was again at the Baseball Winter Meetings on Monday. A co-owner of the minor league Pensacola Blue Wahoos, Watson made the rounds at the Winter Meetings in National Harbor, Md.,, and it’s a safe bet that no one had as much fun as he did. Watson…

Caption Close In a move that is sure to make Giants fans nervous, catcher Buster Posey has committed to playing for the United States in March in the World Baseball Classic. Posey was one of 30 major-leaguers, listed in a Major League Baseball news release Monday, who have agreed to play for various countries in the MLB-run tournament. No other Giants were listed in the release, which noted that other…

Bubba Watson, seemingly wherever he goes, is like a kid in a candy store — preferably his own, Bubba’s Sweet Spot — as he was again at the Baseball Winter Meetings on Monday. A co-owner of the minor league Pensacola Blue Wahoos, Watson made the rounds at the Winter Meetings in National Harbor, Md.,, and it’s a safe bet that no one had as much fun as he did. Watson…

NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. — Baseball’s Winter Meetings have begun, meaning you can count on a week of free-agency rumors and trade innuendo. It’s a mid-December tradition! This year’s Winter Meetings ought to be especially interesting because the free-agent class is historically weak and the man who had the No. 1 spot on the list, Yoenis Cespedes, is already off the market. When Jeremy Hellickson qualifies as a top-10 free agent,…

Having been traded to the Atlanta Braves in July, Major League Baseball outfielder Matt Kemp is now trading in his home, listing his 15,884-square-foot mansion in the upscale suburb of Poway, Calif., for $11.5 million. Mr. Kemp, 32, played the 2015 and half of the 2016 season with the San Diego Padres. “When he bought this house, he believed that it was going to be home forever. It was his…

Photo credit: Pablo Martinez Monsivais/AP Bryce Harper won’t be a free agent until after the 2018 season, but that doesn’t mean it’s too early for everyone to start stressing the hell out over how much money he is going to cost. According to USA Today’s Bob Nightengale, the Nationals have already started discussing a possible extension with Harper, and they are feeling faint. Advertisement According to Nightengale, who cites a…

Rich Hill revived his career at just the right time. (Alex Brandon/Associated Press) A year and a half ago, Rich Hill was the last player cut from the Washington Nationals’ roster coming out of spring training, a stopover on a steep career descent that bottomed out that summer when, devoid of better options, he signed on with the independent Long Island Ducks, the last resort of baseball’s most desperate. When…

Whatever one thought of Boris Johnson, he certainly was big and bold on bikes. There has been some worry that his successor was not quite so committed, but London Mayor Sadik Khan has now promised to invest a pile of money in cycling infrastructure. From his press release: I said in my manifesto that I’d be the most pro-cycling Mayor London has ever had. Today I’m delighted to confirm that…