Jayson Stark stayed up all night to capture some of the important changes in the new collective bargaining agreement between Major League Baseball and the Major League Players Association. Here are the two big ones:
The league that wins the All-Star Game no longer will get home-field advantage in the World Series, which instead will go to the pennant winner with the better regular-season record.
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The regular season will lengthen from 183 days to 187 starting in 2018, creating four more scheduled off days during the regular season. The sides also have discussed scheduling more day games when teams face long flights following those games.
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Teams that sign a premium free agent will no longer have to give up a first-round draft pick to the team that lost that player. However, teams with payrolls higher than the luxury-tax threshold would still lose a pick later in the draft. And teams losing those players still would receive a pick.
I’m very glad to see Selig’s Folly removed. The All-Star game is an exhibition. If MLB wants it to be more competitive, it should offer a cash prize to the winners.
Some of us hoped the season would get a bit shorter, not a bit longer. I would be happier with the 187 day season if they eliminated off days in the playoffs, shortening the post-season by a week.
The compensation rule is an improvement, but why teams think they need compensation is beyond me. Maybe the MLBPA just keeps whittling away at it until it’s gone.
None of this is final yet, the sides have to put it to paper and ratify the agreement, and we may discover other interesting changes at that point. Baseball is safe through 2021, and I suspect for a long time to come.
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