Lesky’s Notes: There have been CBA negotiations!

It may not always work, but the Royals do try.The biggest news in baseball is the Mets managerial search, minor league signings and CBA negotiations. Given that the Mets managerial search is interesting for like a minute and minor league signings are only vaguely interesting (plus the Royals aren’t doing much), the news boils down to the CBA. I’m actually a little surprised because I predicted zero talks until after the end of the year. What an idiot I am because the two sides met yesterday. Now, their discussion had nothing to do with the core issues that are truly causing the standoff, but meeting is better than not meeting. In Craig Calcaterra’s newsletter yesterday, he showed some skepticism about what it means and I completely agree, but I think the fact that they’re working out some details now indicates an optimism that no time will be missed at the very least. Evan Drellich reported in The Athletic on Wednesday that the “core economics” talk wouldn’t come until January, which still jives with my guess as to the lockout timeline. So we’ll see how it goes, but for now, I’m happy and surprised that there are conversations being had at all.

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