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Albert Pujols is coming home. The 42-year-old slugger signed a one-year, $2.5 million contract with the St. Louis Cardinals on March 28 after electing free agency in November. This will be Pujols’ last year in the majors, and it all comes full circle for him. He returns to the team …

The Tampa Bay Rays defeated the defending World Series Champion Atlanta Braves in a 5-1 spring training game Thursday afternoon.  They now head into their last weekend of spring training play before Opening Day on Thursday, April 7. The Rays have struggled in Spring Training to this point, having won …

Five Time All-Star and World Series Champion, Freddie Freeman, is heading to the City of Angels. Saying Goodbye to a Great A tough pillow to swallow for the Atlanta Braves, Freeman is an organizational greats. Certainly a player who was perceived to retire a Brave, the trade sent not only …

Major League Baseball is officially back. There were questions as to whether there would be a MLB season after games were canceled and owners and players could not come to agreement on a new collective bargaining agreement. Now, both parties have a new agreement in place and the free agency …

The Atlanta Braves are going all in on the newly acquired first baseman Matt Olson from the Oakland Athletics. This virtually puts an end to the Freddie Freeman era in Atlanta. Jon Heyman, an MLB Network insider, suggested that the Braves went ahead with the trade before telling Freeman. The …

Major League Baseball and the Major League Baseball Players Association (MLBPA) extend their deadline to come to a collective bargaining agreement until 5 p.m. Tuesday. The players and staff spent eight-straight days in meetings, concluding in a session from 10 a.m. Monday until 2:30 a.m. Tuesday. Now, the MLB and …

As talks continue on throughout Monday, the MLB and MLBPA must come to an agreement if both parties want the season to start by March 31. Monday marks the eighth day of talks between the two, yet a deal may still not happen. Good morning from Jupiter, Fla. where it’s …

What’s The Issue? With the MLB season set to start on March 31 the urgency for both the MLBPA and the owners to come to a deal for the collective bargaining agreement has reached an all-time high. This week both the MLBPA and owners met and talked with each other …

Major League Baseball and the MLB Players’ Association remain no closer to securing a lockout resolution as the upcoming season grows closer. The ongoing work stoppage began on December 2, 2021. Over 80 days ago, MLB owners unanimously voted to implement a lockout after the expiration of the 2016 collective …

The MLB has postponed Spring Training through March 5. Evidently, this news comes since it has failed to reach a deal with the MLBPA. Official training should have begun Feb. 15 with games  set to begin on Saturday. The regular season is scheduled to begin on March 31. If the …