Yesterday, the executive council of the MLBPA declined to set a strike date, choosing instead to continue on in good faith, with the hopes that no strike date would be required, and a settlement could be reached. Speculation is that an agreement could come as early as the end of this week, and the specter…
The five-man rotation is a failure. I don’t mean to be overly dramatic here. I’m not trying to frame ‘failure’ in a pejorative sense, the way we might describe Tony Muser, or airport security pre-9/11, or Bud Selig’s ceaseless efforts to acquire a human soul. I use the term "failure" in a purely literal sense….