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The 10 most fascinating players of baseball’s Winter Meetings – Yahoo Sports

Monday, December 05, 2016

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,…

Selig, Schuerholz elected to baseball Hall of Fame – ESPN

Monday, December 05, 2016

1:12 AM ET Facebook Twitter Pinterest Email print comment Bud Selig spent 22 years as the commissioner of baseball. John Schuerholz built World Series champions in Atlanta and Kansas City. On Sunday night, they were elected together to the Baseball Hall of Fame. Schuerholz was elected unanimously by the 16 members of the Hall’s newly formed Today’s Game Era committee. Selig received 15 of 16 possible votes. No one else…

Big names in play as baseball winter meetings open – Yahoo Sports

Monday, December 05, 2016

OXON HILL, Md. (AP) — Andrew McCutchen, Chris Sale, Miguel Cabrera and Justin Verlander could be available for the right price. As baseball teams gathered for the start of the winter meetings Monday, star players were dangled along with the usual crop of free agents. ”When clubs take a dramatic change in direction or even a subtle one, that type of player can become available – although often it’s just…

Baseball Hall Of Fame Prepares To Welcome Its Newest Members From The Today’s Game Era Committee – Forbes

Monday, December 05, 2016

The 115th annual Baseball Winter Meetings are finally upon us and for five days this week the Gaylord National Resort and Convention Center in National Harbor, Maryland will be the temporary home for the business of baseball. One of the most intriguing aspects of the Baseball Winter Meetings occurs at its outset when the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum announces its annual Eras Committees election results. While the…

Bud Selig and John Schuerholz elected to baseball Hall of Fame – SB Nation

Monday, December 05, 2016

A pair of former baseball executives were elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame on Sunday when Bud Selig and John Schuerholz were voted in by the Today’s Game Era Committee at baseball’s winter meetings in Maryland. A total of 12 votes were needed from the 16-member committee, the newer version of the veterans’ committee, which provides a chance to honor contributors to the game and takes extra looks…

Baseball Hall Of Fame Prepares To Welcome Its Newest Members From The Today’s Game Era Committee – Forbes

Monday, December 05, 2016

The 115th annual Baseball Winter Meetings are finally upon us and for five days this week the Gaylord National Resort and Convention Center in National Harbor, Maryland will be the temporary home for the business of baseball. One of the most intriguing aspects of the Baseball Winter Meetings occurs at its outset when the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum announces its annual Eras Committees election results. While the…

Baseball Hall Of Fame Prepares To Welcome Its Newest Members From The Today’s Game Era Committee – Forbes

Sunday, December 04, 2016

The 115th annual Baseball Winter Meetings are finally upon us and for five days this week the Gaylord National Resort and Convention Center in National Harbor, Maryland will be the temporary home for the business of baseball. One of the most intriguing aspects of the Baseball Winter Meetings occurs at its outset when the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum announces its annual Eras Committees election results. While the…

Labor Peace Helps Bolster Baseball’s Bottom Line – New York Times

Sunday, December 04, 2016

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Trade talk back in fashion with baseball’s free-agent crop thin – San Francisco Chronicle

Sunday, December 04, 2016

The sport’s main offseason showcase once was about general managers making trades in hotel lobbies, huddling in a corner or behind a potted palm and chatting over cocktails deep into the night until a deal was done. As free agency took over the game, agents took over the winter meetings. The biggest signings became the biggest news. Trades seemed smaller scale. This year’s meetings could be a throwback because trades…

As baseball Winter Meetings begin, the Nationals have options – Washington Post

Sunday, December 04, 2016

For the next four days, the baseball world will revolve around an unlikely sun – the Gaylord National Resort and Convention Center in Oxon Hill, Md., home to the 2016 Winter Meetings. There, across the Potomac from D.C., in the shadow of a giant ferris wheel not usually present at proceedings like these, Major League Baseball’s offseason will spin into a frenzy. Few teams will be more central to the…

Pittsfield’s Tom Grieve headlines Western Mass. Baseball Hall of Fame Class of 2017 – MassLive.com

Sunday, December 04, 2016

Pittsfield native Tom Grieve, a first-round draft pick who built a long-term career in major league baseball, heads the Western Massachusetts Baseball Hall of Fame’s Class of 2017. Announcement of the new class came from Hall of Fame chairman Clark Eckhoff, owner/president of the Valley Blue Sox of the New England Collegiate Baseball League. Grieve also will serve as keynote speaker at the induction banquet, set for Jan. 26 at…

Labor Peace Helps Bolster Baseball’s Bottom Line – New York Times

Sunday, December 04, 2016

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Baseball Hall Of Fame Prepares To Welcome Its Newest Members From The Today’s Game Era Committee – Forbes

Sunday, December 04, 2016

The 115th annual Baseball Winter Meetings are finally upon us and for five days this week the Gaylord National Resort and Convention Center in National Harbor, Maryland will be the temporary home for the business of baseball. One of the most intriguing aspects of the Baseball Winter Meetings occurs at its outset when the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum announces its annual Eras Committees election results. While the…

Pittsfield’s Tom Grieve headlines Western Mass. Baseball Hall of Fame Class of 2017 – MassLive.com

Sunday, December 04, 2016

Pittsfield native Tom Grieve, a first-round draft pick who built a long-term career in major league baseball, heads the Western Massachusetts Baseball Hall of Fame’s Class of 2017. Announcement of the new class came from Hall of Fame chairman Clark Eckhoff, owner/president of the Valley Blue Sox of the New England Collegiate Baseball League. Grieve also will serve as keynote speaker at the induction banquet, set for Jan. 26 at…

Trade talk back in fashion with baseball’s free-agent crop thin – San Francisco Chronicle

Sunday, December 04, 2016

The sport’s main offseason showcase once was about general managers making trades in hotel lobbies, huddling in a corner or behind a potted palm and chatting over cocktails deep into the night until a deal was done. As free agency took over the game, agents took over the winter meetings. The biggest signings became the biggest news. Trades seemed smaller scale. This year’s meetings could be a throwback because trades…

Cleveland Indians’ Terry Francona gets ‘Good Guy’ award from baseball writers – cleveland.com

Sunday, December 04, 2016

CLEVELAND, Ohio – Indians manager Terry Francona makes for good copy. Whether he’s riding his “hog’ – a scooter – to and from Progressive Field for work or talking about his late-night dietary wrestling matches with ice cream, pizza, peanut butter or popsicles, he always makes things interesting for the reporters covering the Indians. Not to mention, he knows how to manage a baseball team. It is for those reasons that…

Labor Peace Helps Bolster Baseball’s Bottom Line – New York Times

Sunday, December 04, 2016

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Trade talk back in fashion with baseball’s free-agent crop thin – San Francisco Chronicle

Sunday, December 04, 2016

The sport’s main offseason showcase once was about general managers making trades in hotel lobbies, huddling in a corner or behind a potted palm and chatting over cocktails deep into the night until a deal was done. As free agency took over the game, agents took over the winter meetings. The biggest signings became the biggest news. Trades seemed smaller scale. This year’s meetings could be a throwback because trades…

Labor Peace Helps Bolster Baseball’s Bottom Line – New York Times

Sunday, December 04, 2016

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Labor Peace Helps Bolster Baseball’s Bottom Line – New York Times

Sunday, December 04, 2016

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