The real mastermind behind the months-long Owner’s Lockout has finally been revealed and it turns out that the people who blamed the owners are almost as wrong as the ones who blamed the players.
I can tell you now, for the first time, that reports that Eric Bieniemy had had it written into his contract that he had the final say on the contents of the CBA are also entirely incorrect. According to sources familiar with the situation, Bieniemy’s contract doesn’t actually have any language related to MLB in it.
However, in a unique twist, it turns out that when the Royals promoted J.