Happy Tuesday, Athletics Nation!
An interesting note popped up in the baseball world during yesterday’s A’s off day. According to Evan Drellich and Ken Rosenthal of The Athletic, a new fine has been implemented by MLB that activates whenever any team within an MLB team’s farm system has a brawl or bench clearing event. An added wrinkle is that with each successive incident within the team’s minor leagues, the fine doubles. So while the first brawl ends up costing the parent team a measly $500, by the end of the year a system that has its 9th bench clearing has a new $128,000 fine on top of the previous $511,500 it’s already paid.