The Out in Left Weekly: March 17, 2024
MLB hates baseball players, British politics, and more
There wasn’t much political sports news this week, but that’s okay. Salvation is near. The baseball season starts on Wednesday.
MLB
Teams find new loophole to not pay players
The San Francisco Giants are not good and infielder J.D. Davis is, so it was a surprise that the team released him this week. Only once, in 2018 when he played just 42 games, has Davis been a below average hitter. His services were also relatively cheap, as he was awarded a $6.9 million salary in this, his final year of arbitration. According to The Athletic, he will be afforded severance pay, but that one-year deal is voided. The Giants saved millions and now Davis is looking for work.
In the latest labor negotiations, the players won guaranteed contracts for arbitration-eligible players. If a player with three years of service time, for example, comes to terms on a one-year contract with their incumbent team to avoid arbitration, then that contract is guaranteed no m…
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