This is the tweet (well, the series of tweets) that got me writing this week’s Rockpile:
Major League Baseball asked for the ability to eliminate hundreds of minor league playing jobs in its latest labor proposal, sources told ESPN. The league would not be allowed to implement the plan until after 2022.
Details, free and unlocked, at ESPN: https://t.co/ZkKNE7LhsG— Jeff Passan (@JeffPassan) February 15, 2022If you don’t want to click on the link, I got you: MLB wants to reduce the number of domestic MiLB players teams can have from 180 to 150 or below.