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MLB Offseason: Mune Kawasaki and Brian Matusz have World Series rings

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According to two sources, word coming out from the CBA negotiations is that the QO system may be going away starting next year, with a heavily revised form of compensation for free-agent signings (as in not penalizing teams for signing free agents, but compensating teams that lose them).
 
Francona for AL Manager of the Year, no shock there
Dave Roberts for NL Manager - kinda happy with this one, glad to see Maddon not get it, honestly...
 
Max Scherzer and Rick Porcello for Cy Young. Max was a no-brainer, the AL side was a bit of a tossup. Some controversy over Verlander winning 14/30 1st place votes and basically no 2nd place votes, while Porcello got 8 1st place votes and a ton of 2nd place to add up to more points overall. As usual BBWAA writers are dinks, and left Verlander off of two ballots entirely, which was basically what put Porcello over the top.

Happy for Porcello, though. After a rough year last year, really put it together nicely this year. Laid an egg in the playoffs, but small sample size and whatnot. Hopefully Price can adjust his second year in Boston half as well as Porcello did.
 
AL MVP goes to Trout. Thought Mookie might overtake him, given that he was on the only team that made the playoffs of the 3, but Trout isn't exactly controversial I suppose ;)

Haven't seen NL come out yet, but Bryant is a lock, right?

Also, McCann traded to the Astros, along with a truck of money, for a couple low/mid-level pitching prospects. Not a straight dump, so got more than I thought, but probably not a huge haul. Dude fell off pretty fast. Don't think the Yankees will miss him much, the new kid isn't terrible... :)

Edit: yep, Bryant got NL MVP with 29/30 1st place votes.
 
Word on the street as we get ready for the winter meetings is that the Dodgers are kicking the tires hard on Sale (and potentially Kinsler) and fully intend to re-sign Turner and Jepsen.

If that happens, they're easily the team to beat next season. I can't imagine anyone wanting any part of Kershaw / Sale in a short series.
 
^ Hasn't the same been said of some of the more expensive Yankees teams? Not to mention the Dodgers when they started their big spending era.
 
A couple of sources are reporting that ownership is threatening a lockout if the union doesn't roll over on the CBA negotiations. Supposedly, the biggest sticking point right now is the international draft (owners want it, the union says that's a line in the sand they won't cross), to the point that ownership offered to do away with free agent draft-pick compensation entirely, and the union still refused to budge. Good for them.
 
Eh, really need the international pool to be part of a draft of some sort. It's crazy how it's just totally outside the process, and almost no rules. Especially since that's where all the best players are coming from, and most money being spent. Not complaining, as a fan of a big-spending team that can take advantage of it, but should be part of the overall draft process. Plus creating two systems, where the 18 year old Dominican is making 60M for signing, and the 18 year old kid from Texas is being forced to sign for 2M and be locked into years and years in the minors. Int Draft kid is having opt-outs after 3 years, no arbitration-eligibility, all sorts of nonsense. Time to square that up more.

Free Agent compensation is another that seems broken somewhat. Way it's being used, the old Type A/B system seemed to make more sense, as it sorta tied the compensation to the level/value of player. Now it's all in one bucket, and screwing the non-premier players. Well, sorta, as they've started to figure it out and just take the offer to make huge money for one year. But now teams can't offer it as much, meaning no compensation unless they lose a huge player, etc. needs to be rethought again.
 
The international draft is bad for anyone who's not a team owner trying to save money.
 
Latest word from Ken Rosenthal is that ownership has dropped its demand for an international draft. The threat of a lockout still looms, however, as the CBA expires at 12:01 a.m. on Thursday morning.

Edit: Cespedes back to the Mets, 4 / 110.
 
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Little pricey, but guess that's the way things are going. $30M is the new $20M. Good for him/them, seemed like a decent fit.
 
Cespedes also had the benefit of being probably the best position player remaining in a historically terrible free agent market.
 
Cubs sign Jon Jay to a one-year deal, meaning Fowler is almost certainly gone.
 
Jayson Stark is reporting that with just over three hours to go, a new CBA is "very close."

Edit: Rosenthal says it's done. Multiple sources say it's a five-year deal but no other details are out yet. Rosenthal said that an idea floated earlier tonight was an overall spending cap on international amateurs (meaning it would exclude pro leagues like Japan), which sounds dangerously close to the first step towards a salary cap -- can't imagine that's a part of the final agreement.
 
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Best news looks like world series home field advantage will no longer be tied to the all star game.
 
The Cubs did fine without home field advantage, but it makes much more sense going to the team with the better record.

But then they would probably have to wait till both championship series' are done to find out.
 
The All-Star thing is definitely good news and finally erases one of the most moronic decisions of Selig's tenure.

I'm not entirely thrilled about the international spending cap (which actually hurts salaries more than an international draft, Jesus) and the changes to the luxury tax, the latter of which is tantamount to a soft cap. Baseball is making more money than it has in any point in its history, meaning there is absolutely no reason for the union to roll over and allow the creation of systems intended to depress salaries.

The new QO system doesn't offer any meaningful changes, either.

Marvin Miller would have taken this CBA, dropped it on the ground, and pissed on it in full view of the owners. Don Fehr probably would have, too. Not the best first showing for Tony Clark.
 
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