You might have thought that Freddie Freeman’s return to the Braves beyond 2021 would have been a foregone conclusion, or wrapped up long ago. After all, he’s been with the organization since being drafted in 2007. He’s played all 1,565 of his Major League games there. He won the 2020 NL MVP as a Brave, … Read more
Baseball is back. And that is all that matters. Getting baseball back was a long and sometimes frustrating process – longer and more frustrating, surely, than anyone would have liked. This is not how anybody wanted to spend the beginning of March, that’s for sure. We’re supposed to spend this month watching players stretching in … Read more
Major League Baseball and the MLB Players Association reached an agreement on a new collective bargaining agreement on Thursday, paving the way for the 2022 regular season to begin on April 7. The CBA was ratified by the owners with a unanimous 30-0 vote on Thursday evening. If it is ratified, both sides must then … Read more
JUPITER, Fla. – As he does every night before bed, Matthew Liberatore cleared his brain, slowed down his breathing and worked to get himself into an optimal state of mind. Once there, the 22-year-old left-hander visualized himself standing tall on the mound and throwing strike after strike on the first day of the Cardinals’ Minor … Read more